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[California]

It's a Jeep! They're accustomed to riding on a car hauler.

But I wonder if U-Haul knows their trailer was backed down the ramp into the water to launch the boat. Some later customer will likely discover trashed wheel bearings. Or taillights.

 

[WinterDeere]

But I wonder if U-Haul knows their trailer was backed down the ramp into the water to launch the boat. Some later customer will likely discover trashed wheel bearings. Or taillights.

Probably fine. Most well-greased bearings won't even notice a single dunking at the ramp, it's the cumulative effect of many dunkings without frequent-enough re-greasing, that ultimately does them in. Most tail lights made the last 40 years are of the "diving bell" design, a vent/drip hole at the bottom, but sealed with a foam or better gasket around the rest of the perimeter. They can take in a little water if left dunked long enough, but usually not, unless the gasket has totally rotten away.

Wiring negative polarity connections, such as the common splice between the main harness and each tail light or tail light to chassis ground, are the usual failure points when water-tight splices aren't used. But the U-haul maintenance guys have probably been there / seen all that before, so I suspect they use decent splices to avoid the cost of frequent re-work.

The plywood sides on their ubiquitous enclosed trailers won't hold up well to frequent use in fresh water, but even those probably won't suffer much damage from an occasional or one-time dunking.

As someone who owns antique wood boats hauled on vintage steel trailers, I know well the old saying that the tin worm lives in salt water, but wood worm lives in fresh water. With wood boats on steel trailers, I'm hosed in any type of water.

 

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don't be this guy
i mean don't be the guy in the car in front, either, but still

 

[jjeff]

It's a Jeep! They're accustomed to riding on a car hauler.

But I wonder if U-Haul knows their trailer was backed down the ramp into the water to launch the boat. Some later customer will likely discover trashed wheel bearings. Or taillights.

In my house there commonly referred as cripesler products lol