You know that towing your classic, exotic, luxury, or super car in a custom enclosed trailer is the safest option for transporting it safely to its destination. But how many times have you safely loaded your car into the trailer, only to realize that you are loaded in too?
Enclosed Luxury Car Trailer Exit Strategies
It’s a common question asked in car conversation threads: “Once I invest in an enclosed trailer, how will I get out after I pull my car in?” After all, before you invest the money into a transport solution, you want to make sure you’ve explored all your options and possibilities.
We’re here to answer that question once and for all, and give you the ultimate guide to escaping your enclosed car trailer once you’re in.
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Climb Out the Window
If you’re looking for the simplest (+ cheapest!) answer to your problem, this is it! As you probably know, most trailers are not wide enough to allow for the opening of the driver’s car door once the car is inside. After you drive your car in, your only option is to climb out the window and then skinny out between the wall and the car.
Sounds like the last thing in the world you want to do? We don’t blame you! Most car owners don’t have a background in gymnastics — which makes twisting and contorting your body to make it out of the window, and then squeezing your body between the car and the trailer wall to shimmy out uncomfortable, even painful.
The good news is, there are a couple of ways that you can avoid that.
2. Install an Escape Door
An escape door is exactly what it sounds like: a door that you install into the side of your enclosed trailer, right outside where the driver’s side door of your car will be once it is loaded. When opened, this creates enough space so you can open the car door and simply exit the vehicle, stepping down from the trailer.
Sound perfect? It can be a great solution, but there are a few problems:
- Being car specific limits adjustability. If you outfit your trailer with this door, you plan to space it perfectly to fit one car. If you buy/ own a car with a different length, you run the risk of the escape door not being in the right spot, and dinging the driver side door.
- Locating exactly where to put your escape door is difficult. Many escape door positions do not take into account the huge disparity in door size and location to maintain proper tongue weight balance.
- Driving your car into a trailer poses risks. All you have to do is Google “car loading fail” to see examples of what can happen when using ramps or other methods to drive cars into car trailers. Unfortunately, humans are imperfect, and escape doors do very little to protect from human error while loading.
3. Use a Winch
Winches are a great way to reduce human error when loading a car. Winch systems are also great because you do not need to worry about being trapped in the car after driving it in — because you remain outside of the car the whole time!
While winches eliminate having to climb out your car window, and the issues associated with driving your car into the trailer, they do come with their own set of problems to consider. Before you go buy and install a winch into your enclosed car trailer, make sure you consider the following things:
- Tie down system can damage the car. Due to the loading hardware coming in contact with the chassis of the car, there may be resulting damage on the vehicle.
- Needing to steer the car both in and out in a narrow envelope between car and trailer inner fender.
- Keeping the vehicle centered in both directions. This sounds simple, but it can be more complicated than you think when you are working with the small area of your enclosed trailer.
- Needing a readily accessible anchor point.
4. Rail Ryder
With the Rail Ryder self-loading trailer, you will never need to climb out a window or hop out of an escape door, you also have more security than is afforded with a traditional winch system. Additionally, you do not need another person to help you load your car when you use Rail Ryder, as it is can be done solo.
Rail Ryder is the most effortless way for you to load your car. Securing your car is simple with the trailer tie down system, and takes a matter of minutes. There is no complicated positioning to hook straps in, and you do not need an assistant to help. Most importantly, you are never in the car in the trailer.
Rail Ryder’s value lies in its simplicity and security.
Once centered and secured to trolleys outside the luxury car trailer, Rail Ryder eliminates the need to steer any car into and out of the trailer. Your vehicle tracks straight and true time after time. You will never be searching under the car for an anchor point.
Wouldn’t it be fantastic to have safely loaded your car from the outside looking in? Call us for a quote today, and never climb out of a window again!
