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PersonFrancais
13/3/2016 at 10:22am
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Yep Skiiddy, quite a good Trailer in that link, but to be fair it would not be much of an upgrade from what I have now.

Next Trailer would be a braked "Saris DV135 Van Body" great for camping gear, and would also be used for another project.

All work in progress, and we may even end up with a caravan when the time comes, but for now will be sticking with what we got.


Personlee8810
13/3/2016 at 4:54pm
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We have always had a tralier and found it to be one of the most important pieces of camping equipment. Due to recently buying a folding camper and the fact the wife won't let me keep it my £2000 plus erode 163 with every conceivable extra is soon to be for sale if anybody is intresested.


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Wow £2000+ for that Erde 163 even with all the extras, seems a lot, my Lider Alicante 2009 which is about the exact same size as the Erde 163, cost just £800 with all the extras!

Of course the Lider, looks like it was built in a Russian tractor factory, whilst the Erde looks as though it was designed by Pininfarini.


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Bare trailer is £730. That is without the extension sides that are just shy of £500. The abs lid £400 plus, the load bars another £130. Shock absorbers, rear prop stands, Jockey wheel & spare wheel all separate.


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Yep, it can be expensive buying a Trailer, the "Saris DV135 Van Body" that I am looking into works out at £1,750, although it is Braked, and can take 920kg!, and the volume is huge, about 4 x that of my current Trailer.


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13/3/2016 at 7:03pm
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Francais, will you be able to re-coup some of your outlay by selling the older trailer?

I have already made enquiries about upgrading mine. Trailertek near Portsmouth will do a trade-in and I will be passing on the way to Portsmouth Harbour in the summer.

Obviously a deal is only on the cards if it is suitable. I won't go ahead if I'm offered a rubbish price.


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13/3/2016 at 7:17pm
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Yep, a friend has said he would give me £500 for my existing Trailer, if I included the 520lt Fiamma UltraBox 3 RoofBox, I would be happy with that, although I would keep the Trailer Tongue Box, as that will be going onto the next Trailer.


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15/3/2016 at 1:10pm
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To echo much of what Francais has said

Decent trailers are not cheap, we paid around £1500 for ours 12 months ago.

We should have spent that money years ago rather than dithering

You won't know how you managed without one.

Ours is a Saragos, Height extensions and load bars on ABS lid. We are sticking bikes on top this year.

Everything camping related lives in it, the trailer is kept safe and dry in a garage, when camping all the junk that we take is in the trailer and not packed around our ears. It made our journey to Provence a dream!

My advice would be to buy soon - we left it until Easter and the bloke didn't want to do much of a deal, if you can wait I suggest November and you'll be able to knock them down a bit.

andy


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Quote: Originally posted by Francais on 13/3/2016
Yep, it can be expensive buying a Trailer, the "Saris DV135 Van Body" that I am looking into works out at £1,750, although it is Braked, and can take 920kg!, and the volume is huge, about 4 x that of my current Trailer.


You are going to end up towing something larger than our caravan



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