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Rough highways can make towing feel like a rodeo. The Lippert Center Point by Trailair Air-Ride Suspension Upgrade takes the hard hits out of your ride with two air bags that absorb road shock and reduce the fore-to-aft movement known as chucking. It replaces your standard equalizers in a tandem axle setup, giving the trailer a much smoother and more stable feel. Adjustable psi lets you fine-tune the air pressure for loaded or unloaded towing, so you can dial in the comfort you want.
Heavy loads demand suspension that can keep up. The Center Point system works with axles rated up to 8,000 lbs and uses your existing double-eye springs to spread the weight evenly between axles. This design not only cuts down on bounce but also improves braking performance during emergency stops. It’s a strong, purpose-built upgrade made to handle serious hauling.
Low-sitting trailers scrape and drag on driveways or uneven ground. Installing the Center Point adds 2" of height, giving you better ground clearance for plumbing, stabilizers, and frame components. That extra lift also helps level the trailer when towing behind taller trucks, keeping your setup balanced and your hitch geometry right where it should be.
Even if the air system loses pressure, you’re not stranded. The Center Point includes mechanical bag stops that let you keep traveling safely without air until repairs can be made. It’s a simple but smart safeguard that keeps you on schedule no matter what the road throws your way.
Swapping out those old equalizers doesn’t have to be complicated. The kit comes complete with the mounting hardware you need for installation on standard 1-3/4" double-eye spring setups. Once installed, you’ll notice the difference right away—quieter operation, smoother towing, and less stress on your trailer and cargo.
Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
This air ride suspension is going to be designed by Lippert Components. What it's going to do is it's going to make your ride much more comfortable when towing a heavy trailer like this. When you're looking to add a suspension upgrade on to your trailer, I think this is probably going to be the way to go, in my opinion.If you think about putting airbags on a trailer, a trailer like this size is very heavy. Gross vehicle weight rating is 16,000 pounds plus. Well, if you think about something this size on the highway, what do you think about You think about tractor trailers. All your tractor trailers have air ride suspension.
Why do they have air ride suspension Because they're carrying heavy loads and they want a lot of that shock to be absorbed, not only from the road, but by the weight pushing down on your axles.So adding something like this is going to greatly reduce any of that. It's also going to greatly reduce chucking you get, and how that works is, let's say we didn't have this and we have our old suspension in place. What happens is, our two axles are working against each other.So let's say we hit the brakes. As this axle pushes up, it's pushing this one down. If we go over a bump, let's say we go over a bump there, this one goes up, this one pushes down, this one hits the bump, this one goes up, that one goes down, they're actually working against each other.With this setup, as this one comes up, it has that airbag to cushion it.
Instead of pushing down on the front axle, the airbag has taken up that, or is absorbing that pressure that this axle is pushing up and vice versa. It's going to do the same thing for the front.Even though we have this installed on a camper, it doesn't mean it's designed specifically for a camper. These are going to be designed for any Tana 00:01:46 Maxwell trailer that's able to carry heavy loads.Let's say you have a horse trailer that's Tana Maxwell, you can carry six, eight horses in it. That's a lot of weight. If you don't have a setup like this, the horses are going to be going like this every time you hit a bump.
With our air ride suspension like this, a lot of that road shock is going to be taken up by the bags through your suspension.So not only is this set up going to make your ride much better, but it's also going to make any cargo that you may be hauling, for instance, your horses, this is going to make their ride much better. It's going to greatly reduce a lot of vibration. You're going to get inside the camper, so you're not going to have to clean up inside when you get to wherever you're going.We had our own suspension installed on here, and we did a test. We had some water or a cup of water we had put inside, and with our old suspension, we lost about half of the water that we put in the cup.But here on the other side of the trailer, you can see it's going to be exactly the same on both sides. The construction of these is a very heavy duty steel.
And when I mean heavy duty, I mean these things weigh about 60 pounds each.If we come inside to our bags, these are going to be in double counter loaded bags. If you look right here in the center, there's going to be a metal rod that runs all the way around the center of that, and what that does is that keeps the bags from overlapping their selves.Put it in a little bit better perspective. If you have a single bag without this ring, what happens when that squeezes is the bag will kind of fold over itself, and what happens is that puts your pressure on that fold, and that fold can eventually start to wear out. With this, this keeps our bags from overlapping so it's going to make them last a lot longer.If we come down here to our shackle bolts. Our shackle bolts are going to have invert fittings. These are going to allow us to fill the inside of the bolt with grease. Being able to fill the inside of that with grease, because this part where the spring is, and this down here moves, being able to fill that is going to allow this to last much longer than just a regular bolt with a sleeve on it.I'm really impressed with how heavy duty these are here. We have 7,000 pound of axles. And you really need something this heavy duty when you're working with bigger trailers like this, which brings me to the next point. These are actually going to work with axles up to 8,000 pounds, so another 1000 pounds bigger than the ones we have here and bigger than this trailer, so that's how heavy duty these are.Another benefit to adding these is it's going to raise your trailer up two inches. Being able to raise that trailer up two inches, it's really going to limit how much damage you do to anything underneath. For instance, you go into a cammy 00:04:37 spot that has some different terrain on it, with regular suspension on it you could potentially tear off your drainpipes, which I've seen happen. Being able to add that two inches is going to greatly reduce that damage.The kit's also going to come with a valve and a gauge which is going to make it a lot easier when we need to fill our airbags, we don't have to go back to each side of the trailer to fill up the bags. We can do it from right here.This can also be mounted in several different locations on your trailer, it's going to come with plenty of airline tube to get it ran wherever you desire to put it.Our gauge allows us to fill our bags up to a hundred PSI. The filler valve is going to be just like a standard filler valve on your car tires, so you'd be able to get a regular air truck on it if you need to fill up your bags.And they're going to recommend five PSI for every 1000 pounds of weight. It's a good idea to check your weight rating on your trailer, and adjust your bags according to how you like to pull it.That's going to do it for a look at installation on the center point air ride suspension upgrade by Lippert Components.
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Ratings & Reviews
Brooke M.
5/6/2025
The install looks great, Walter! Sounds like you really know your way around the trailer. Do you do this type of work for a living?
Charles
1/5/2025
It’s been about a year since I installed the lippert center point air ride, I have to say I’m very impressed. I’ve probably put about 2000 miles on since then and 90 of the time I can’t even feel the trailer behind me, it rides so much better, stuff hardly moves around in the trailer. Don’t get me wrong stuff still moves but not like before. If you are looking to not spend a lot of money to upgrade your trailer suspension I recommend the lippert center point air ride. Oh and let me tell you speed bumps are nothing it fells like it just floats over them. And also a thank you to etrailer when I installed this product I was missing a few parts and the replaced them and also helped me with information on installation.
Mark
1/2/2024
It works flawlessly, couldnt have made a better choice youll feel more of the bumps in your truck than you will the trailer. If youre a hunter and want to go down a bumpy dirt road, no problem. I would highly recommend this system.
Rhonda
11/15/2021
hey are holding up. Adding the air cushion package we also bought from your company seems to have addressed our breakage issue. Thanks for asking. Pleasant surprise!
Mike L.
5/20/2026
We're having the missing parts shipped out Clyde, I'm sorry that happened!
James
4/5/2024
A year has passed an our center point system is still going strong. This system.has reduced the road shock that our 5ver has to endure. We are full timers. We put 7k miles on this season.We have decided that there is less movement of stored item,such as our pantry items.
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Nick S.
12/15/2025
I am glad you were able to get it installed yourself and hope it is working well. I appreciate the feedback on those air fittings and I will definitely pass that along. What kind of trailer did you end up installing this on?