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10/8/2011 at 6:39pm
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Quote: Originally posted by redwatch on 25/7/2011

 Hi Ozzy2672,

No it's not my trailer.

I do have a Brenderup 1150 with extension sides and ABS lid.

I was also thinking of fitting a roof box as well, but it would make it so high.(I like to travel through France on the motorways and category 1 (below 3 meters) lets me go through the restricted height with my Liber-t pass. and no charge for the trailer)

Sorry I can't be of any help..

Andy.





Hi

Could i ask how you fitted the abs lid onto extended sides?
The lock needs to move up do new holes need drilled?
Do you need to drill holes for the levers which hold lid open

Thanks for any advice

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10/8/2011 at 10:59pm
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Just drooling at the thought of extended sides. We have the trailer and ABS lid and for long trips still need to take the roof box. Let me know how you get on with this and how easy / difficult it is to sort out. Good luck & you will have a seriously amazing trailer when it is done!


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it's 2 extra holes, just put rubber gromments into the original ones

I got my high sides from lichfield trailers and they fitted the sides and ABS lid on the saturday morning, FOC

Excellent service!

I presume the roof bars clamp to the abs/top of the roof rails?

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It's going to be pretty high with the bars on as well....

The berlingo is higher than a usual saloon car - pic gives you some idea

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12/8/2011 at 12:41pm
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Steve harris wrote

"I would not recomend spending a penny on a brenderup trailer.

Read this:

http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/chatter/display_topic_threads.asp?ForumID=10&TopicID=74877&SearchPagePosition=1&search=brenderup&searchMode=allwords&searchIn=Topic&forum=10&searchSort=dateDESC&ReturnPage=Search"


I have owned a Brenderup 1205 steel bodied trailer for 6 or 7 years now and in that time I have shifted literally hundreds of tons of scrap down to the local scrap yard. The only problem I have had was the pop rivets in the floor failing, which is apparently not unusual. Simple enough repair - drill out rivest, open holes in chassis to take M10 stainless steel coach bolts and nuts from screwfix and its fine.

I don't know what trailer the bloke whose Brenderup went rusty had but can't believe he paid 1200 quid for it and from the pictures it does look as though it has spent a lot of time wet. Mine has been wet on numerous occasions but it always gets dried out and it normally has an elasticated heavy duty cover over it - not the Brenderup one but similar sort of thing supplied by the dealer. Also I have a sheet of 3 or 4mm ply in the bottom of the trailer to protect the phenolic board, just cheapo ply that I put several coast of Ronseal quick drying wood seal on so it doesn't soak up water and then carpet tape all around the edges to protect the 'end grain'. Each ply sheet lasts me a couple of years and the floor of the trailer looks like new.

The Brenderup is probably the best trailer i have had in 30 years.


03/9/2011 at 8:25am
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I have to agree with arthur.daley, the Brenderup trailers are great and so robust - mine is a year old and looks like new. I do keep it under a tarp when not being used.

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03/9/2011 at 8:31am
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Had a brenderup 1150s this year with abs. But not big enough for family of 7 going to france. Just traded it in and got a ifor williams bv64e with shutter door. Really big capacity but not wider than our car. Flows behind car really well when driving. Also doubles up as a safe big locker on site. We will take all the kids bikes in it too.

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03/9/2011 at 10:55am
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williams bv64e is a whole different animal. The IW trailers I have used in the past have certainly been well made.

Once you have it I suspect that you will find yourself being very popular with friends and family ;o)

The bv6e just creeps under the Eurotunnel car height limit I think - 1.85m??

Not sure what the floor on these trailers is made of - phenolic board like the Brenderups? I would strongly recommend cutting a sheet of 4mm cheap ply to fit the floor of the trailer, you may even get away with sterling board if you can get it thin enough, hardboard laid shiney side up would probably be ok. Anything to protect the floor from the 'stuff' that gets dragged across it and garden rubbish, soils rubble etc. Just need to lift the board every now and then to brush out anything that gets under it.

I'd also suggest looking at the lashing eyes - really useful to hold stuff in place. These trailers do bounce around a bit, even loaded, due to the state of uk roads and all the speed humps and stuff has a habit of rattling about and then falling down it not held in place, but I am sure oyu will work these things out for yourself.


03/9/2011 at 2:04pm
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Quote: Originally posted by arthur.daley on 12/8/2011

Steve harris wrote

"I would not recomend spending a penny on a brenderup trailer.

Read this:

http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/chatter/display_topic_threads.asp?ForumID=10&TopicID=74877&SearchPagePosition=1&search=brenderup&searchMode=allwords&searchIn=Topic&forum=10&searchSort=dateDESC&ReturnPage=Search"


I have owned a Brenderup 1205 steel bodied trailer for 6 or 7 years now and in that time I have shifted literally hundreds of tons of scrap down to the local scrap yard. The only problem I have had was the pop rivets in the floor failing, which is apparently not unusual. Simple enough repair - drill out rivest, open holes in chassis to take M10 stainless steel coach bolts and nuts from screwfix and its fine.

I don't know what trailer the bloke whose Brenderup went rusty had but can't believe he paid 1200 quid for it and from the pictures it does look as though it has spent a lot of time wet. Mine has been wet on numerous occasions but it always gets dried out and it normally has an elasticated heavy duty cover over it - not the Brenderup one but similar sort of thing supplied by the dealer. Also I have a sheet of 3 or 4mm ply in the bottom of the trailer to protect the phenolic board, just cheapo ply that I put several coast of Ronseal quick drying wood seal on so it doesn't soak up water and then carpet tape all around the edges to protect the 'end grain'. Each ply sheet lasts me a couple of years and the floor of the trailer looks like new.

The Brenderup is probably the best trailer i have had in 30 years.

The kind of trailer I HAD was a brand new brenderup 2260s. Bought from Trident Trailers of Sittingbourne Kent for £1200...wanna see the receipt?

It was never abused, just used for camping and transporting fire wood. Never left with water in it, always covered.

Brenderup's customer support is non-existent, they just grab your money and run.

There products are crap and so is there directorship. YOU BUY AT YOUR PERIL!!!!

My 2260s was scrapped several years ago and has been replaced with an IW (a proper trailer)!



03/9/2011 at 5:40pm
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Steve

I thought you had an 1150 which I think is what the OP or one of the follow ups was talking about - thats why I couldn't understand why you had paid 1200 quid for it.

I have to admit that trying to get any sense out of Brenderup HQ in Denmark is very hard work.

However, you are the only other Brenderup owner I have met who has had a problem that wasn't of their own making and statistically they must make the odd duff one and I would have hoped of better support than you appear to have had, but I still wouldn't let your bad experience stop me from buying one. If dozens of people had responded and said they had had the same problem that would certainly have knocked my confidence in their trailers.


03/9/2011 at 11:48pm
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We have a Brenderup 1150 with side extension and ABS lid. It's 18 months old and still like new. No problems whatever. Bought and assembled by Tanfield Trailers. They also fitted our tow bar,

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We're making the trailer plunge but it's driving me nuts with all the different sizes, wheel sizes and extras available. Seriously looking at the IW bv64e as an equivalant erde or daxarra with side extensions abs lid etc works out more expensive. Any peeps got or had a bv64e?


04/9/2011 at 12:31pm
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You shouldn't go far wrong with an IW trailer. Just need to remember that the box van type trailers can get a bit warm inside, well like an oven actually, in the summer. So be careful of what you leave in there at home or on site.

If you are going to be using Eurotunnel check the height restrictions, I am fairly sure that the bv6e is just under or bang on the limit - hopefully just under the limit by the time it is loaded and the suspension has dropped!

As I said on a previous posting here, you need to look at loading bars/straps etc to make sure that stuff stays in place and its more of a fine art to load a box van trailer than an open top trailer. The main thing to do is remember that when you stop in a hurry things will fly forward so make sure things are stacked higher at the front than the back. When you are driving along all your stuff will rattle up and down and is liable to fall backwards - assuming the load is lower at the back, so some kind of restraint to hold your stuff in place is a good idea. You really don't want stuff rolling around in the back of the trailer - especially anything heavy or sharp, the fibre glass side panels will only take so much abuse before something cracks one or goes through it :o(

And as I say to every one who is buying a trailer - put some kind of floor protection in from new. Trailer floors take a lot of stick and a protective sheet of ply, hardboard or rubber mat keeps the floor in good shape.


04/9/2011 at 9:57pm
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Quote: Originally posted by dmdec on 04/9/2011
We're making the trailer plunge but it's driving me nuts with all the different sizes, wheel sizes and extras available. Seriously looking at the IW bv64e as an equivalant erde or daxarra with side extensions abs lid etc works out more expensive. Any peeps got or had a bv64e?



Just bought one two weeks ago new - shutter door version. had a benderup 1150s with abs but it is simply too small ( although a very well made solid little trailer). Bv64e gives more opportunity to b organised without that painful packing and trying to get eveything in. I will put everything in collapsable crates and just stack. Kids bikes will go too. We are 7 so need the space.

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