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Design wise the americans don't pay much attention to detail & just think of different layouts, hence some handle really badly on the road, the newer models have to have anti sway mechanisms but the older models were better.

My seapine for the year had the heaviest nose weight, I only found out after I bought it, serves me right?.  If you work on basic principles that the trailer has a nose weight of between 7 & 10% of the GVW (gross vehicle weight) so 1300kgs = max 130kgs nose weight but this goes out of the window when you convert the original nose weight of say 70kgs + UK hitch weight of 30kgs + weight of new metal plates & extension of the A frame for better towing = 115kgs + (you have to match hitch carrying capacity to the overal weight of the trailer) but I had to fit in my transformer weighing 26kgs which I put in behind the wheel, balanced out at 95kgs

I still have to find space inside to carry the battery which will make it better.  But having said all this the coleman handled like a dream behind my Mitsi Pajero (nose weight 100 to 125kgs approx).  The old US hook up cable weighed a ton figuratively speaking so I did a lot weighing of things ike eighing if I cut something off & the same when adding things & I had the fitters moving the hitch bck & forth until I got the balance right, I did away with the US jockey wheel as it was too puny & had the one supplied with the delta coupling.

Well it looks like I have not done so bad then but spending money on an older model is not so benefical but the project had to be finished otherwise it would ve meant walking away although I had already spent money on the purhase.

If one did come up again I would bargain harder on a bifg reduction knowing the costs now involved on conversion.  At the end of the day I had to follow the dream, I always finish what I start, even if it has cost me in the region of £3600 but then it is something that knowone else has got in the UK (well bar one).