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| saw a really nice Exiss trailer this weekend that we really liked but don't know of anyone that owns one, any one have good pros/cons? We currently have a 97 Hart and it is truly well built. |
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The Resident Destroyer of Liberal Logic
Location: PNW | I'd stick with your Hart. Exiss construction is no comparison. We had a 2002 with LQ and it was NOTHING but a pain in the butt. |
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A Cool Sharp One
| love my Hart but it does not have a LQ and we are just wanting a small 8ft LQ |
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The Resident Destroyer of Liberal Logic
Location: PNW | The roof leaked in ours, the seams were HORRIBLY done. We had to completely rip out the bathroom and redo it. Possibly the construction has improved in the last ten years, I don't know; but you'd never be able to GIVE me another Exiss. |
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| The Exiss Event model is a good trailer. They stopped making them in 2008+/-. Anything other than the Event is hit or miss. |
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Location: not settling | Wouldn't recommend an Exiss to anyone- on our 2012 stock combo all of the riveting popped off, wiring runs along the roof on the inside of the horse part and one day it ALL fell down exposing all of the wiring, and the floor leaks under the shortwall. cheaply built IMO and we didn't have any luck with ours. |
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Location: USA | Hart and Cimarron are both really well built trailers. I think the guy who started Cimarron actually worked for Hart at one time so their structure is very similar. |
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The Resident Destroyer of Liberal Logic
Location: PNW | Just Plain Lucky - 2014-09-21 4:53 PM
The Exiss Event model is a good trailer. They stopped making them in 2008+/-. Anything other than the Event is hit or miss.
Ours was an Event. |
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Duct Tape Bikini Girl
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| Keep the Hart. |
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Expert
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Location: Willows, CA | If you get the Exiss, have them include a net to drag behind it to catch the parts that fall off.
Edited by winwillows 2014-09-21 10:45 PM
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| I have a 2007 Exiss 3 horse but it does not have a LQ just a big dressing room. I haven't had a bit of problem with mine falling apart like others have said. We even took it up in the mountains on really bad roads and we live on rough roads ourselves and nothing has ever fallen apart. I love it and would get another one. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest | We have an Exiss 4-horse and a stock trailer. They both get used a LOT and we don't have any problems with either of them. |
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A Cool Sharp One
| we really like the floor plan of this Exiss, wonder if I could shop the floor plan around to other brands? |
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 Bulls Eye
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Location: Oklahoma | You couldn't pay me to even pull an Exiss. Find out who did the LQ conversion package and see what other brands can do that. |
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Location: Where I am happiest | I sure wouldnt want to get in a wreck with one. |
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| Exiss Trailers is actually merged with Featherlite, Sooner, and Miley trailers and the construction has greatly improved. A friend of our just purchased one over the weekend and it is beautiful. How it will hold up over the years we obviously wont know but Featherlites and Sooners seem to be sturdy trailers.... |
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Bulls Eye
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Location: Oklahoma | They merged back in the mid 2000's. Their trailers do NOT hold a candle to any of the better quality trailers. I'd even buy an older trailer of the following brands: 4 Star, Platinum, Elite, Hart (keep what you have). I'd consider a pre 2003 Sooner, Featherlite too. |
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Location: Lost in the corn of Iowa. | We just purchased an Exiss, granted it is brand new and has the warranty. But I know people who've had 3 or 4 of them through the years and they seem to like them and haven't had any problems. I use mine a lot and we haul the horses and bikes in it depending what we are doing. But I know that the Exiss isn't a top of the line trailer and we get new trailers every 5 years or so. And I honestly don't think I'd want to get in a wreck with ANY aluminum trailer as one poster posted. We buy wrecked semi's and fix them up so we see the wrecks that are for auction and horse trailers are in that same grouping and after a wreck, it doesn't matter if you have low grade or high grade trailers, none of them are bulletoroof. |
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A Cool Sharp One
| the one big difference I saw between my Hart vs Exiss is that the fencers come to a point, not rounded so when the horses are standing there they could get cut; my Hart is totally rounded everyone which makes it very sturdy; think I am going to see if I can get Hart to do the same floor plan. |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | you couldnt pay me enough to pull one.....our friends have one and it has leaked and gone down the walls.....and other ppl i know had to re do the back door hinges......those and the bison's are the bottom of the barrel imo
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