I am in the market for a new trailer.
What is peoples experience of the Pinto brand ?.
Looking at a single axle with stock crate.
Thanks in advance.
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I am in the market for a new trailer.
What is peoples experience of the Pinto brand ?.
Looking at a single axle with stock crate.
Thanks in advance.
I have never looked at the pinto brand but recommend the kea trailer had mine for about 14 years with no issue. Got the heavy duty single axle.
Also have a prescott flat deck trailer at work. Not long after getting it the deck started to delaminating. I was going away and dropped the trailer back to tepuke where my boss was meant to pre warn them :faill:Any way i left it there for the day and dropped tools replaced all the deck and fixed the break lines we had damaged all free of charge the same day with no pre warning i was coming. So if you want after sales service my vote goes with prescott trailers
Service counts for a lot.
Pinto, Kea & Prestcott are all good brands. Companies that are still manufacturing & selling against the Chinese imports speak for them selves. Buy NZ made.
Got one of these......like me it hasn't done a lot of hard work, but is a good bit of kit, imo. Mate bought one also, and he's happy too.
https://www.traylatrailers.co.nz/
got mine from a bloke that builds them in te awamutu (so not far from you) went for the 8x5 because the 8x4 wasnt actually 8x4 iternally built of treadplate galv LED lights cage spare wheel and jockey wheelcost me 2.5k but way better than the chinese shit picked it up on a sunday all warranted and registered ready to roll
Concept Trailers
I bought a Prescott @ 13 years ago and it's been brilliant. Recently broke off a tail gate handle (my mistake) and they sent a replacement for $20, cheaper and easier than trying to fix it. Got an 8 x 5 tilt deck so can fit a quad bike with a 2 wheeler beside it and not need ramps, or if I do for a 2 wheeler I just use the tail gate.
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Going to have a look at a Titan trailer.
Mate has a tandem one that looks to pretty robust and well made.
Look to be made in China, going by the solid axle beam and their statement saying built to their standard.Quote:
Originally Posted by erniec
Tui Trailer’s in Morrinsville are good. NZ made - well priced and robust
Orion trailers, pahiatua. The best trailers and service
Kea or Briford
I wont specify any brand favorites but will say "For fucks sake do your research and buy a NZ manufactured not just nz assembled trailer"
This wont guarantee you the best trailer but will get you a trailer that at the very least shouldn't bugger off from the back of your vehicle with a load on and drift into a oncoming school bus or mum pushing a pram down the foot path....at least for the first six months.....
Have a box trailer(nz made) in the yard at the mo the drawbar just cracked and broke off of, just built too light.
The trouble with trailers and towbars is there is no regulation for wof vehicles, now dont get me wrong I am all for joe blogs with a few clues and skills building his own trailer without going threw welding cert and design cert for wof vehicles, but what that also means is company's both here and overseas try and out "cheap" each other to stay in business and corners are cut relentlessly and sometimes un safely.
Who checks it....the guy at vtnz? he has no bloody idea if its a good weld or not or if that drawbar is thick enough or if the bloody thing has been designed to carry the load.
As soon as you go into COF the exact opposite applies, everything has to be designed and certed to extreme/bloody ridiculous overbuild to cover the certifiers arse
Honestly the shit I have seen come in from China straight of the wharf to my work to be made towable just beggars belief.
I hear what you are saying.
But there is a huge price differential for example in a 8 x 5 trailer with stock crate you can be looking at $3.5k versus $5K plus.
I have a builder mate who has a "cheap" trailer I think a "Bunnings" one.
It is used daily carrying timber up 50 k a day 4 wheelers and motorbikes at weekends.
A bloody sight more work that a Joe Bloggs like myself that may use once a month.
For a cheap trailer it doesn't appear to be falling to bits.
I am all for buying NZ new but in the end I will have to look at all options.
I have one 8x4 single axel. Love it, solid build and tows perfectly.
What are people's thoughts on something like this?
https://preview.trademe.co.nz/motors...ing/1765146757
@veitnamcam
Is it just me, or does that seem pricey for a single axle trailer?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dorkus
Looks and sounds like a good thing without actually seeing one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dorkus
Reguarly dropping heavy stuff on the deck like loading with a digger for example;) might/could lead to cracking out the crossmembers as it looks like they are only welded top and bottom with the scollop cut out to allow for galvanising. Thats the only criticism I could come up with from a quick peruse of the photos.
Yeh it does. I make a few so I do know there isn’t a huge mark up once one factors in time etc.
I have a tip one here about to be galvernized and I’d sell it for way less but no cage. Although that’s probably $200 extra.
All 3mm NZ steel. Because I know how it’s built and it has some cool folds and steel work on it it is WAY nicer than these pictured trailers.
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I thought it quite cheap for a hot dipped, tipping, caged trailer with jocky and spare?Quote:
Originally Posted by Max Headroom
You'd know more than I would. I aint no engineer.Quote:
Originally Posted by veitnamcam
Cheers guys, appreciate your input. @Danny if you're selling something way better for cheaper then I'm all ears. Noting the one in the link has everything I want and is relatively local it seems like a good option for me.
I dont buy trailers either so I guess I dont really know the market prices.Quote:
Originally Posted by Max Headroom
Big places get big discounts but if jo bloggs off st goes to buy hubs stubs wheels tires springs ubolts mudguards lights droplocks coupling springbolts chain etc it mounts up quick before you have even bought steel or built it or shipped it to be galvanized if you were to build yourself.
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I have an engineering business. I make heavy duty trailers. I use nz made or German Knott parts. Any parts not made in nz still come from reputable parts company that is fully tested.
There are some good nz made and European made trailers. They cost more because of the parts are better and materials are superior.
Cheap trailers are Chinese made, to a price. They are generally lightweight light rated springs etc. they are fine for light duty, use occasionally etc.
If you are a contractor or carry heavy loads and frequent use, the Chinese ones last a couple years and fall apart. I’ve seen it.
So buy fit for purpose.
Generally anything running Trailparts components is locally made. The local built gear usually has better quality steel and welding.
https://trailparts.co.nz/
Have 2 Pintos and they are great.
My tandem hasn't bent yet despite me regularly overloading it.