Warranty Work on 2022 Utility Dry Van Vs Others

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  1. Siinman

    Siinman Road Train Member

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    I figured this could be something as well. And I can understand that one and would be fine with that situation. For all I know he may have mistakenly spoke and made it sound like what I explained earlier.
     
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  3. Siinman

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    I will call them Monday morning before I go pick trailer up.
     
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    thanks for that information. I am not really stressed about it just thought it was kind of shady at best to pay for it in the front end. I have the money so not worried about that part. Just never seen that happen before on a warranty claim.
     
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    Never had that issue but great information to have if something happens on it. I think my rental trailer I had a while back had that issue.
     
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    I won’t buy another utility, 90% of the guys I load with run hounds and you can tell how much better they hold up side by side, even the occasional 90s era trailer with a super 2 on the front once In a while. The floor on my 2010 is shot
     
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    I am leaning towards that same thought. I almost go one before I bought this trailer and I sure do regret not getting it. It was exactly the spec I want now so but with a good price tag compared to now days.
     
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    Well turns out it took so long to fix the trailer they found out what was warranty and what I had to pay. So I only paid for what was not under warranty. On the bright side I am glad I left that stuff to the professionals since it would had taken me a month to figure that stuff out. They had to cut and replace a ton of wiring in the trailer so it would had been too much for me to do.

    I am not impressed with Utility's ability to wire a trailer for future trailers. This has the O/O spec with 9 LEDs on top and 9 LEDs on bottom of each side with LED's inside trailer.

    I might go with Great Dane next time. Anyone have any issues with a nice light package on any other trailers?
     
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    I had a light issue with a seven side light setup. When they built the trailer they put the wire harness in first and then the floor. They had one of the connections stretched so far it eventually broke. They replaced it under warranty with a longer jumper harness between the lights. They ended up cutting the old harness between the lights off because there was no way to unplug it because of the cross member being in the way
    It was easy for them when they built the trailer to use the shorter harness because the floor wasn't in yet..
    Kinda like having to take a fender off to replace a sparkplug on certain cars.
     
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    I bought a new dealer spec GD 53 van back in 2015 from Trudell in DePere, WI. It just had the standard no frills led light package. Very good trailer, no issues at all with anything about it. Sold it back in 2019. If you want a GD ask wichris who he buys from there and talk to them.
     
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    Thank you when I am ready I will give him a holler and find out. So far I have not heard anything bad with them but didn't find much issues on Utility either. The trailer itself is not bad I must admit. Just horrible at wiring lights and that also ruined the controller.
     
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