Malone MPG586XV EcoLight 2 Kayak Trailer with 2 V-Rack Kayak Carriers | 14' / 400 lbs Capacity | Fully Submersible | Marine Grade Galvanized Steel Construction

Was impressed with material used for trailer. Instructions were easy to understand and step by step instruction helpful. Had issue with 1 bag of missing hardware, but was resolved promptly. Plenty of room for both my kayaks and ease of loading instead of roof mounts. Great product!

Used for kayak. Pulled down paved road, dirt road, and bumpy gravel road. Also highway at 65MPH. All good scores.Assembly- instructions suck. I used a YouTube video and it was near perfect. Slight changes to video and was easy to do. Only one person. Took about 4 hours working slow and comfortable. Parts bag not labeled but easy to determine what nut and bolts to use. No spare parts. Had to buy locking nuts for lights because supplied 1/4 20 vibrated off. Fenders are plastic but good quality.Tongue and hitch- chain hooks are pretty big and won’t fit her Kia supplied mount. The push lock is not very smooth but hope with wear it will loosen up. She can’t lock it on the ball. I’ve loosened it with the nut on bottom but it’s still very hard. Afraid she’ll cut her smooth hands!Delivery- came quickly and well packaged. I think it was four boxes. They were all heavy, but I could move them myself.Backing and driving- trailer pretty much tracks with her rear wheels on Kia. For me, backing was easy but she needed to practice never pulling a sport trailer.

The trailer arrived at my house in five boxes. They were pretty heavy, but I managed to drag them to my garage. I read through the instructions. They seemed to have left things out. However, several people have videoed their assembly and have put them on YouTube. The videos walk you through the build step-by-step. It took me about five hours to assemble it. I am impressed with the quality--Malone uses galvanized steel. The pieces are well made and fit together perfectly. My shipment was missing a fender bracket, so I went on Amazon and message the seller. They shipped the bracket out and I received it in just a few days. I haven't used the trailer yet, but there are several video demonstrations of usage on YouTube. All of the videos are positive.

The trailer itself is vey stout and should fit my needs. HOWEVER, if you have wide kayaks like fishing kayaks or pedal kayaks like myself, this trail will NOT work. I had to purchase longer 78" cross bars. The standard 60" crossbars were too short. If you need longer cross bars Liquid Sail and Surf has them (Malone 78" MicroSport HD 1.25" Galvanized Cross Bars). You do not need to purchase the mounting hardware. They come with the trailer. Many reviewers mentioned the poor instructions. I would partially agree. Shame on Malone for not including detailed blown up pictures. My wife and I about gave up. I'm glad we didn't, but we were close. You will need a good socket set and a helper. Assembly is not for the faint of heart. Other than these issues, the trailer is very good.

We purchased this trailer because it was becoming a real pain to put our pair of long, relatively heavy kayaks on our roof rack. This trailer is lightweight but very well made and is great for 5- to 15-mile drives to a beautiful lake. It probably would be fine for much longer drives as well, but we live near a lot of great places, so shorter drives are all we need. Depending on how handy you are, you might want to consider professional assembly. We paid the owner of a trailer shop $225 to assemble it for us - and were glad we did.