HydraLift RV Motorcycle Lift

[atesch]

HydraLift RV Motorcycle Lift

We have owned a HydraLift motorcycle lift since the summer of 2009. Although it has a great design and performs very well, I cannot recommend the product because of the HydraLift factory support. We have owned this lift for only a few months and the powder coat finish is coming off the lift in sheets. Some of the lift arms are almost bare. Our 5th wheel is stored indoors when not in use and has never been in any road salt. The Hydralift company states that they will not warranty the finish of the product in any manner.

Because of HydraLift's support we can not recommend this product. Your experience may be different.

Al & Lynn Tesch
Wausau, WI

[Eagle]

Al,

I can't help you with the manufacturer's support, but if you contact a local body shop, they can probably help you in getting your lift recoated. At a minimum, they should be able to direct you to someone that does powder coating.

[Weigh-It]

Everyone thinks that powder coating is almost bullet proof, that is not always the case. There are many compounds making up the powder and some are not as resilient to the outside world as others. You purchase the different powders according to use or cost, but not both. It is a great product, but it does have limits, and is very failure prone if applied incorrectly. Just look at many of the trailer hitches you see on the various vehicles. The surface getting the coating has to not only be clean, but is should be profiled, or blasted to give the coating some tooth to grab on to. I used to prep many items for coating and also removed powder coating that was either installed wrong, or was failing. You just cannot sand an already powder coated part and then repaint and expect the same look or strength. Unfortunately, your whole system needs to be disassembled and each piece blasted clean then given to a quality sprayer to start over. Or once blasted clean, you could have it repainted with a quality epoxy paint and skip the powder coating all together. I'm sure if you back tracked the company and found exactly who they farmed out the coatings to you will find he was the 'LOW BID' and they got exactly what they are paying for. The difference in cost between quality and low bid could have been less than 50 bucks on that rack. The company I did a lot of prep work for in Michigan did Toyota coatings and installed a million dollar wash system to ensure clean parts before coating. They rarely had any failure of coated parts, it was always the guys that started up in some small shop and wanted to make some money doing PC that I was always cleaning off their mistakes so they could 'TRY IT AGAIN'.

[Weigh-It]

I forgot to say if your going to be in the Detroit area, I can put you in touch with the right people to do the job correctly. They can take it apart, blast/clean and coat and reinstall & assemble if needed.