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    Quote Originally Posted by IgorKlim View Post
    ... it was much better dealing with Dexter than with GD warranty departmentAttachment 28728.Attachment 28727
    That is a sad conclusion. GD is suppose to be a quality RV and company. I am afraid I am about to share this position soon.

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    UPDATE: After contacting Dexter, who promptly said they'd send a new hub and brake assembly. It took a week for them to actually mail it, and then I found out they sent it to Washington, not Nebraska. Still waiting for parts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dryfly View Post
    I picked up my 273MK in Aug of last year. Immediately found brakes were defective. All 4 wheels had grease contamination and were replace by the dealer.

    Two months later I left on a long trip and notice that one hub kept measuring hotter than the others. At a campground in the middle of nowhere near Bowling Green KY I pulled the wheel, and just like yours, all the components fell out on the ground. In addition the hub was cracked. After all morning on the phone, and trying not to delay our trip, I found a shop in bowling Green that could get the parts overnighted from a supplier.

    GD authorized the expense and later reimbursed me the $500 charge. Fortunately I understood the problem and could do the installation or I might have spent a week there.

    I still have no idea of what caused the problem to occur.
    how did you discover they were defective? is this something you can tell by visually inspecting them? when you said you pulled the wheel, you just took the wheel off and the brakes fell apart?

    i've been seeing posts like this about brake problems and it's pretty concerning, especially since i'm not mechanically inclined. we bought our first rv (brand new 2800bh) in march, but only just did our first road trip this past couple weeks. thankfully it went relatively smoothly and we loved it. besides this one trip, we've been keeping the trailer at a seasonal site we rented and my wife and daughter have basically been living there full time.

    (if anyone can answer this..) should we be having our brakes inspected by the dealer yearly? any other regular maintenance things we should be having done? we're probably mostly going to be staying put at the seasonal site and go on the road maybe twice a year, and probably only a few hundred miles each time, tops.

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    If they are Dexter axles the same thing happened to us on our old forest river 2017. It happened on 3 out of 4 wheels. We dealt with Dexter direct. They wanted the serial number and the code stamped in the axle. I am honestly not sure if the axles on grand design are dexter. We have a 2021 GD 395 now. PS dealing with the axle manuf. was easy and quick. They had the parts to me the next day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by froward View Post
    how did you discover they were defective? is this something you can tell by visually inspecting them? when you said you pulled the wheel, you just took the wheel off and the brakes fell apart?

    i've been seeing posts like this about brake problems and it's pretty concerning, especially since i'm not mechanically inclined. we bought our first rv (brand new 2800bh) in march, but only just did our first road trip this past couple weeks. thankfully it went relatively smoothly and we loved it. besides this one trip, we've been keeping the trailer at a seasonal site we rented and my wife and daughter have basically been living there full time.

    (if anyone can answer this..) should we be having our brakes inspected by the dealer yearly? any other regular maintenance things we should be having done? we're probably mostly going to be staying put at the seasonal site and go on the road maybe twice a year, and probably only a few hundred miles each time, tops.
    I think that this problem could be caught without a disassembly, but would venture that unless who ever was inspecting is a very competent tech / mechanic that they would miss the two biggest clues, that the retaining pins are missing or not flush against the backing plate and / or the fine metal shavings that would be visible (at least) on the inside edge of the drum if not in the inside edge of the wheel. For someone who is comfortable and competent, a one or one and one half inspection hole could be drilled into the backing plate in a proper place to help with inspections. As for the "whattabout wet brakes" crowd, many OTR tractors and trailers (class 8) trailers don't even have backing plates, and others have added ducting to help facilitate brake cooling in mountainous regions.
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    If the bearings are repacked annually the hubs are pulled and the brakes should be inspected then. Any issues are readily evident.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jmbopp View Post
    If the bearings are repacked annually the hubs are pulled and the brakes should be inspected then. Any issues are readily evident.
    ^^^thanks!^^^

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    Parts finally delivered August 25. Installation time: 2 hours, including cleanup.

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    Axle problem

    We are original owners of a 2018 2150RB, with about 5000 owner miles. I have towed trailers for about 40 years, with most of that being two or three axle trailers. I always check air pressure before leaving on a trip, and sometimes during a trip.

    Earlier this year we left for a trip and I noticed some unusual wear on the inside of the right rear tire, When we arrived at our destination there was a significant amount of steel belt frayed and exposed on the inside of the tire requiring the purchase of a replacement tire at approximately 3500 user miles. I have watched all tires since that time.

    Five hundred miles further on, I noticed excessive wear on the outside of the right front tire. We are now at approximately 5000 owner miles with significant wear on the outside right front tire, but all three other tires appear normal. I have removed tires on the right side and examined spring mounts, spring shackles, and axles and found nothing loose, obviously bent, or damaged.

    Anyone have any ideas or suggestions?

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