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27-04-2005, 09:17 AM
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Well I just got off the phone with the tailer company and, they want a letter explaining what happened, and they are going to conduct an investagation into why happened.
So it looks like they are going to be paying out, speaking to the guy at there Head Office. |
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27-04-2005, 09:50 AM
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Adapt or perish...
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Excellent.
But farrrrrkkk, there would have been brown stains in my dacks, for sure. Glad to hear you're OK.
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27-04-2005, 09:53 AM
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Wow, and I thougth wayne had a dodgy trailer , hahahahaha
Thats a bugger, well AL if you need paint just ask  Hope it all gets sorted sooner then later in your favour of course.
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27-04-2005, 11:55 AM
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Shoot.
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I'm glad you're all okay, it obviously could have been much worse.
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27-04-2005, 01:11 PM
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Ouchies.
Get like $6k out of them and move on to a EF or EL, don't bother repairing that :S Sundeep |
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27-04-2005, 02:38 PM
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What a bloody shocker.
Like some in this thread, I too, work in servo (Shell aka coles express). This particular instance involved the wire cable holding the trailers. Over time these things pick up crap and fray, leaving barbs for the customer to *****/sash themselves on. Great stuff when it happens when a customer walks back in with blood everywhere. To cut a long story short, customer has written some aggro letters to coles/trailer company. (Fair enough). Trailer company and coles have not done anything about the said cable....coles risk management believed it was the trailer companies falut and they dhaven't done shit since. Ah corporations, anything in the name of a quick buck, not what is best for you and I. |
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27-04-2005, 03:30 PM
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Best of luck mate, hope it all gets sorted out ASAP and without you being inconvinienced too much more.
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27-04-2005, 07:56 PM
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A few months ago we hired a tandem to go up to heathcote- and as I was returning it after the weekend of racing one of the hubs colapsed and sent a wheel spearing towards the servo as we were pulling into the driveway to return it.
Glad that didn't happen at 100km/h... I guess these trailers don't need to go through any kind of periodical RWC or anything. Seems every time I hire one there is some light that doesn't work or it has a shitty winch or bald tyres or brakes that don't work. - John |
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27-04-2005, 08:16 PM
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Sorry to learn of this Al, the main thing is you're not hurt. I remember feeling less than confident with the trailer Phoenix EB and I hired when towing my EL. Eventually there will have to be some sort of serious roadworthy check system.
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27-04-2005, 08:23 PM
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but hell, that looks painfull Al. hope you get somewhere with the meeting tomorrow mate |
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27-04-2005, 09:05 PM
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car trailers... bah.... white ea hit the fence thanks to dodgey winches on a brand new trailer... lucky it was only a parts car lol
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27-04-2005, 09:22 PM
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gee, sorry to see that. hope everything works out for ya.
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27-04-2005, 09:49 PM
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I'm currently working for a certain nationwide hire company who hire a great deal of trailers. Unfortunately sometimes doesn't matter how much maintanance you perform on trailers, sometimes they just commit suicide. Gunns situation is definately lack of maintanance as the 4 coupling bolts should be tightened after every hire.
As part of my job, I spend most of my day towing trailers of all shapes and sizes with all sorts of equipment on them. I was towing a 12 metre trailer mounted cherry picker down the Tulla Fwy in four lanes of peak hour traffic with a wheel came off. That wasn't the most fun I've had given the fact that in the process it shattered the disc, tore the caliper off and caught fire, all where there was no emergency lane... And just the other day, I was towing a 2 tonne excavator around the rear of Westfield Airport West when the trailer coupling broke and the excavator tried to over take the truck. Now that made a mess! |
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27-04-2005, 10:48 PM
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That sounds (and looks) nasty, glad to hear that everyone's alright. How'd the car on the trailer fare? Good luck getting the money for you car, and perhaps a little extra...
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28-04-2005, 12:17 AM
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The only damage done to the car on the trailer was some scuff mraks on the paint work that buffed out. I had it straped down really well. Thank God!
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28-04-2005, 12:19 AM
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02-05-2005, 05:13 PM
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Well it looks like the EA is a write off! So now I am waiting to see how big a pay out I am going to get. What is a EA SVO worth these days?
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02-05-2005, 06:39 PM
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damn mate, what a shame...
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02-05-2005, 07:05 PM
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Awww damn, maybe a good excuse for an Upgrade. Good luck with it all. Were any of the wheels damaged ?
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02-05-2005, 08:17 PM
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sounds like alot of people have bad experiences with hire trailers. the last car trailer i hired the spare wheel on it came off and bounced off the road into the scrub. as we loaded a car onto it we thought we would check the wheel nuts were all tight and found many were only hand tight (if that)
sounds bad what happened to you though Gunns. hope you can find a good replacement car |
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02-05-2005, 08:50 PM
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get my old shell of mick if he still has ,fit all your gear/respray it and then youll have a dead set original one , |
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02-05-2005, 10:01 PM
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02-05-2005, 10:09 PM
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You guys reackon these trailers could be tampered with? Either by the people who used it before you or by people when they're just witting in the yard? Sounds like alot are going haywire...
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02-05-2005, 10:13 PM
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nah, not really, they are just poorly maintained...
the trailer that i had that had no brakes, had a look when i got home and there was no hydraulic fluid in the resevoir - it either had a leak or they just failed to top it up... as Gunns said, the bolts just came out on the one he had....... scary shite..... |
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02-05-2005, 10:23 PM
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 : Now we know why it was there for rent
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02-05-2005, 10:23 PM
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nono.
the bolts didnt come out. they sheared off.
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02-05-2005, 10:25 PM
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oooh. i just thought they came out......
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02-05-2005, 10:28 PM
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yep.. every person i've said the bolts sheared, they said 'arnt they usually welded'
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02-05-2005, 10:30 PM
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Bolts looked pretty Cheapass style aswell
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