This week I found that one of the carpeted plywood boards that line the inside of the fender wells was missing. Just gone. I looked at the other side and found that it was very loose. The fender board was attached to the fender at two locations with small wood screws and at three locations with just small plastic expanding plugs. Are you kidding me? The plastic plugs would be more appropriate for hanging a small picture on the wall than supporting a fender board that receives a lot of vibration.
What gives with FourWinns making their trailers so cheaply? I have already: re engineered the brake line supports because two of the three cheap plastic glue on clips fell off, replaced the tail lights because the cheap lights were impossible to reseal to keep water proof after replacing a bulb, had to tighten all of the brake connections and bleed the brakes when the boat was less than a year old because all of the connections were leaking so much fluid that the reservoir would run dry after only towing 100 miles, replace the crap Carlisle tires because they were trash after 4,500 miles, refit the pins on the swing-away trailer tongue so that they would extract without actually using a sledge hammer to remove them, refit the stern vertical side bunks that center the boat on the trailer because the boards warped so much, and so on. The metal cutout FourWinns logos on the outside of the fenders have both broken along the entire bottom and rattle like crazy then towing. I have not figured out how to fix that yet. I had a Shorelander trailer for my SeaSwirl boat for 18 years and towed it well over 10,000 miles. I never had one single problem with that trailer due to construction materials or design.
In the last seven years have spent far far more time fixing the cheaply make FourWinns trailer than fixing anything wrong or broken on the boat. I have come to the conclusion that I may need to replace the trailer for my own piece of mind because I do not know where it will fail next. Am I alone in this opinion or did I get a lemon trailer?
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