Re: Mobile home axles

Posted by Ryan - WI on July 03, 2011 at 10:15:16 from (66.114.188.148):

In Reply to: Mobile home axles posted by Chris Jones on July 02, 2011 at 12:27:41:

I think it is important to realize that there are actually 2 different generations of mobile home axles and tires.

In the early days of mobile homes the axles were usually left on the trailer. This meant that the axles were only used to transport the structure from the factory to its location. As such the axles were not necessarily built as heavy (or maintained as well) as they could have been. Joe and Bobby came along and took the axles out after a fewyears and built themselves a trailer to overload and experienced some failures.

After the industry grew (particularly for the last 20 years or so) companies figured out that they could reuse those axles, the owners wouldn't miss them and therefore they would save some cash. As such, the axles were reused over and over and built more solid than previously. It became cheaper for a company to produce only one style of axle than produce a heavy and lightweight axle. As such there isn't much difference in modern mobile home axles and tires and lowboy axles and tires.

One thing to understand about how companies work and make decisions is that often the product is the same but only labeled differently. For example, think of store brand groceries. Most of those products are made by a major manufacturer. They are labeled differently and sold as a store brand. The major manufacturer now produces more product and therefore makes more money. They are in essence now competing with themselves and win either way. If you by the generic peanut butter or the name brand they make money. When you remove the costs of the advertising that the name brand requires and the generic doesn't the profit margin is nearly identical.

Second thing to understand is that a company many times will make one product and use only a portion of it, because it is cheaper to make a single product than it is to make multiple products. The extra cost for the premium product is less than the cost to begin a second manufacturing line etc. for a basic product as well. Some examples: In college I owned a Ford Probe that didn't have cruise control. I installed it using the factory components. The wiring harness was already in place. It was cheaper for the company to create and manufacture 1 wiring harness for the vehicle including all the options than it was to make 9 different ones based on the options. Second example: I now own a Mazda3. Mazda offered a trip computer that calculates mileage etc as a part of a $600 option package. The trip computer was a part of the radio. However, what actually ended up happening was that all of the radios had the trip computer in them but some were not enabled. Somebody found out the secret of how to enable it and now there are hundreds of cars driving around with that functionality that they are not supposed to have.

Bottom line, this all relates to mobile home axles in that a lot of the differences in the axles and tires is simply in people's minds.

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