Rotted frame rails, trailing arm mounts and shock towers cut back and rebuilt in steel, about eight minutes from Garfield Heights.
4.9 50 reviews from Cleveland customers
Rated with the BBBArc Wheels Welding LLC, since 2023
Black ownedIndependent shop on Cleveland's southeast side
Garfield Heights is the closest real suburb to the shop, roughly eight minutes down Broadway, and it sends more structural work than anywhere else. Part of that is the housing mix. The north end toward Turney and Broadway is 1920s bungalow and Cleveland double stock with short driveways and street parking, and the south toward Granger is postwar ranch and colonial. Either way a lot of vehicles live outside.
The bigger factor is the roads. Turney, Granger, Broadway and Transportation Boulevard carry constant truck traffic and get salted hard, and I-480 cuts straight through with the ramp approaches taking the worst of it. Vehicles in Garfield Heights accumulate underbody salt faster than the county average, and underbody salt is what kills frames.
Trailing arm mounts, which corrode from inside the boxed section and let go over a pothole with no warning.
Frame rails at the drain holes and at every point where a crossmember or body mount is welded on, because each weld seam is a place for water to sit.
Shock towers and spring perches, which fail under load once the tower has thinned.
Work truck and van frames off the Transportation Boulevard corridor, where the vehicles run all winter and rarely see a wash.
Body mounts, which rot quietly and then let the body move independently of the frame.
A plate welded over rot passes a glance, fails in two winters and is worse than nothing, because it seals moisture against the metal it is supposed to be protecting.
The rot comes out entirely, back to steel that rings solid. New plate gets shaped to match the original section including the box where there was one, welded with full penetration, then gusseted where the original design was thin.
Cavities get treated before they are closed up, which is the step that decides whether the repair sees five winters or one.
If there is nothing solid to weld to, you get told the vehicle is finished rather than sold a repair that will not hold.
The van below came in from Garfield Heights. The frame spot had been turned down elsewhere before it got here.
“Brought my van to Arc Wheels Welding and I was not disappointed. I had a pretty bad spot on the frame that no one would repair, Rashad took a look at it and we can fix that. True to his word the repair looked great. The price was more that fair and they communicated with me thru the whole process. I had a great experience with them. I'll be bringing my S10 restore project to them to have the frame discaled and under coated. Rashad you are the man.”
Frame repair and structural welding is the work Garfield Heights sends most, but the whole shop is available to you. Shop work at 12212 Corlett Ave, plus mobile welding when the thing that broke cannot travel.
The shop is at 12212 Corlett Ave, Cleveland, OH 44105, about 2.7 miles and about 8 minutes from Garfield Heights. Take Broadway Avenue south, or East 131st if you are coming from the Maple Leaf side. Free customer parking on site. Open Monday to Friday, 1pm to 8pm, closed weekends.
About 2.7 miles and roughly eight minutes up Broadway Avenue. That makes Garfield Heights the closest suburb to the shop at 12212 Corlett Ave, Cleveland, OH 44105.
Usually. A repair cut back to sound steel, welded properly and coated is a repair rather than a cover up, and that is what an inspector is looking at. We will tell you before starting if the vehicle is past the point where any repair satisfies one.
On any older vehicle around here, most often a trailing arm mount that has rusted through. The arm is moving in a mount that is no longer holding it. If a screwdriver goes through the bracket, it needs cutting out rather than patching.
A lot of the frame work comes off the Transportation Boulevard corridor. Fleet vehicles run all winter and accumulate salt faster than anything else on the road.
Most quotes come back the same day the shop is open. Free, no obligation, and if it cannot be repaired you will hear that straight.
