Good Gooseneck Trailers

I have heard both good & bad about Big Tex. What all went wrong with yours?[/QUOTE]

First let me say I was not in a good mood when I picked this trailer up. I drove about 4 hours up into Georgia to pick it up and my brother called and said he had stage 4 lung cancer. So when I got there all I wanted to do was get home and since it was a brand new trailer what could be wrong with it. I payed for it and hauled butt home. Then things became apparent to me over the next few days. This trailer was new in November 2017.

1 There are not enough screws holding the deck boards down. They only screw the ends of the boards to the cross members.
2 The cross members are not spaced out evenly. So when you load a trailer mounted generator you must careful located the jack on a cross member because the spacing is to great on the cross beams.
3 I paid extra for 14 ply tires. The weight rating of the tires and the wheels was not high enough for the weight rating of the trailer on the sticker. I had the sticker derated to 14,500 pounds. And yes I accounted for the weight transfer to the tongue. So I had to get 5 new tires and wheels.
4 Within a few weeks the main i-beams on the hitch began to rust.
5 The step up at the front of the trailer was 3 inches inside the rub rail making it useless. The other side was mounted correctly.
6 I paid for 'all LED' lights. Within a few weeks the tag lights burned out. They were standard bulbs not LEDs.
7 The hold downs for the mega ramps do not hold the ramps still and you must strap the ramps down to keep them from bouncing. If you do not strap them down the ramps and the tailgate damage each other.
8 One leaf spring broke, the main leaf, and I run under 26,000 and can not afford an over weight ticket. I do not over load my trailer.
9 Two of the ramp springs are busted. Big Tex does not sell replacements. You must buy genetic ones and bend the spring tails to fit the curve of the hinge bar yourself.
10 The mega ramps are very heavy to flip in both directions.Even with all the springs working.
11 The rear axle bent and the axle u-bolts broke when I hit a pot hole. And I am in FL and the roads are not that bad compared to the Ohio roads I grew up on. Big Tex mount their axles with non standard spacing for the spring saddles and the length of the axle itself is non standard. None of the Big Tex dealers in Florida carry spare axles. So replacements are 6 weeks out when you break down in the first of December. Dexter Axles shut down for weeks at Christmas.
12 The front axle u-bolts broke months later.
13 The wiring harness is made with the leads to the lamps to short so the plugs keep coming off of the lamps. Other leads are several inches too long and hang down.
14 The trailer flexes to much. I think part of that problem is the lack of deck screws. The guys at the welding shop were laughing as they danced on the trailer. It looked like waves on a lake.
15 The wiring harness was installed in the gooseneck with thin can metal tabs that do not support the weight of the pigtail. The pig tail is now secured with bungee cords.
16 They claim that you can haul freight on top of the mega ramps. However the metal on the bottom of the ramps is very thin and there are no cross members on the ramps them selves. So if the freight is on pallets which will spread the weight out you are ok. I tried to load a small trailer mounted water pump on top of the ramps but the thread plate could not support the load.
17 When you look at the side of the mega ramp it is cut to a design. On all the side pieces of the ramps where there is an inside corner the metal has split. And I was told the ramps are all the same for the 14GN, 20GN, and the 25GN. So if I was loading the heavier trailers my ramps would be in worse shape.

Overall the quality is just poor.

Anyone want to buy a trailer?