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Thanks nismoman,ill look into them..

The life of a hot dipped gal trailer should be good for at least 25years and longer..

I know surface rust isn't the end of the world,but a gal trailer will have higher resale value and last longer.

Well if I were spending around 5 to 6k I would personally elect to buy a non gal Aussie steel trailer with some nice options. That will outlast a gal china steel trailer.

I see little point in speccing up a china trailer. They're cheap, and they're value Because they're cheap.

That's just me though.

yeah Neil looked into those. too hard to find and they require the specialist mounts on the deck of the trailer.

Dennis was using a very similar tie down system on his little trailer for his clubman. it had rings mounted on the deck (they fold down flush), and a normal ratchet strap went through them and got tied to the front. mspaint explains....

green is the rings in the deck

blue is the tiedown

red is the ratchet on the tiedown

yellow is a ful sik race car

tiedowns.jpg

the outline of the car including the roof is all dented because Mark drove it, not because I suck at mspaint

i have those tie downs in mt 23 footer. work perfectly

Whats peoples experience with Torsion axles?

Im looking into building my own car trailer as part of a final year uni project. So far the requirements are a 3.8x2m bed and a maximum load capacity of 1400 kg to carry my own track car (1200 kg supra) and possibly my mates track cars. I've previously been hiring trailers which have weighed around 1 tonne which although the tow car (saab 9000) has towed it without dramas, the aim is to try make this purpose built trailer as light as possible, hopefully around the 4-500 kg range. As such i was looking into single axle trailers but since reading this thread, would seem like a mistake.

as you know i own the same shapoe as you. i built my 23 footer with ids on all 4 wheels and electric brakes on all 4 wheels. but my old trailer was a standard 14footer with cable brakes and break away system and it was towed by my 2006 STR navara. ive now got an amorok. and with this trailer fully loaded it weighs about 3.1t

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Resurrecting an old thread for a bit of advice. It's time for me to get a car trailer so I can start running my car to the track in Darwin (some 317k's away on a road that isn't as flat as you would expect) but I've come upon a rather common problem, what car trailer do I buy? I've read through this entire thread and some others, in addition I have talked to a few other mates who have half an idea about trailers but I'm still confused as to which way to go.

The thing's I do know is that I'm not buying second hand (a 600k round trip with an old shitter just doesn't cut it for me), I'm going for a duel axle as I'm moving a 33 gtst and i want to lend this trailer to other mates, I'm going to try my best to find the lightest trailer possible to keep my running costs down in the long run (and to make it easier to move around by hand) and it will have to have an open floor so it may be used as an emergency workbench (eg gearbox drops/dropping sumps/checking out the latest hecktic damage).

The thing's I don't know are just brake types I should go with (electric controlled braking is favorited up in the NT it seems) and the small things like wheel storage, electric winches, nose cones, etc etc.

That all said I recently found a company called Tilta Trailer ( http://www.tiltatrai...le_trailer.html ) whom make a trailer that seems to check a number of box's, but the only information I have of this trailer is what the website says but I was really hoping someone here has some real world experience with this trailer.

So I guess at the end of all this rambling I would like to ask the following questions: Is the Tilta Trailer as handy as it makes it's self out to be? If so would it handle a pretty average 600k round trip every month with 1200kg's sitting on it? Or should I just go for something super simple and just deal with ramps like everyone else?

And as always any extra hints and tips for towing would be appreciated.

Cheers for the feedback 260DET, anything is better then nothing at this stage.

And the mesh tops doesn't concern me too much, i can just stick a few bits of carpet underneath the tires if I'm running around on semi's just to be on the safe side.

Awesome thanks for that info there essay, it's certainly building up my confidence in the pending purchase if a GTR has been getting around on one for so long without drama's.

If you don't mind me asking essay what electric brake setup did you run along with it? And how easy is it to work the air bags on the trailer?

Cheers.

Awesome thanks for that info there essay, it's certainly building up my confidence in the pending purchase if a GTR has been getting around on one for so long without drama's.

If you don't mind me asking essay what electric brake setup did you run along with it? And how easy is it to work the air bags on the trailer?

Cheers.

Using Redarc remote set up. Airbags no issue, excellent ride loaded, just don't forget to undo pin allowing trailer to tilt unlike me when I was unloading it at Tru track in Melbourne in front of cafe and the car dropped onto it's CF under tray with rear wheels in the air. Oops

Using Redarc remote set up. Airbags no issue, excellent ride loaded, just don't forget to undo pin allowing trailer to tilt unlike me when I was unloading it at Tru track in Melbourne in front of cafe and the car dropped onto it's CF under tray with rear wheels in the air. Oops

Oh that's just painful to hear. Hopefully i won't have anything bad like that happen during the coming years of transporting my car around, however the same cannot be said for some of my mates who will no doubt be borrowing the trailer at one point or another haha.

And cheers again for the info essay, will be emailing them soon for final prices and shipping probably tomorrow.

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