Rockers, floor pans, cab corners and wheel arches cut out and rebuilt in steel, about ten minutes from Maple Heights. The work body shops decline.
4.9 50 reviews from Cleveland customers
Rated with the BBBArc Wheels Welding LLC, since 2023
Black ownedIndependent shop on Cleveland's southeast side
Maple Heights was built almost entirely in one burst, from the late 1940s through the 1950s, as housing for people working the mills and the auto plants. That history shows up in the vehicles as much as the houses. It is a community of small lots, short driveways, few garages and a lot of cars that live outside through the winter, which is the single worst thing you can do to a body in northeast Ohio.
The result is a stock of daily drivers that run fine and rot from underneath. Libby, Lee, Northfield and Warrensville Center all get salted heavily, the vehicles sit in it overnight, and the rockers and floor pans go long before the engines do. That is the exact gap this shop fills, because a body shop prices that work at panel replacement rates and the number comes back higher than the vehicle is worth.
Rockers and cab corners, sitting in the spray path off the front wheels with drainage that was marginal when new.
Floor pans under the driver footwell, usually where a tired door or windscreen seal has been wetting the carpet for years without anybody noticing.
Wheel arch lips, which trap salt behind the lip where no car wash reaches.
Bed sides and bed floors on trucks, which is a large share of what parks overnight on Maple Heights streets.
Trailing arm mounts and shock towers, which are structural rather than cosmetic and get their own repair.
A collision centre quotes rust work at panel replacement rates with booth time attached. On a twelve year old daily driver that number exceeds the value of the car and the owner concludes it is finished. Usually it is not, it is just uneconomic the way that shop does it.
Done as metalwork, the rot comes out, a panel gets shaped from flat steel to the original contour, welded in and treated. No parts order and no paint booth, which is most of where the cost went.
The cut always extends past the visible hole, because rust travels under paint and welding to compromised metal fails at the weld line.
We do the metal and hand it over ready for paint. Being clear about that up front saves everybody an afternoon.
The arch below is from that job. A 2014 Ram 2500, mechanically sound, with the rot gone through the fender wells and rockers. Cut back to sound steel, new metal let in and welded, then dressed and treated. Every local body shop had already declined it.
“I'd give Arc Wheels welding, ten stars if I could! I have a 2014 Dodge Ram 2500 that is mechanically sound, but severe rust had taken hold around the fender wells and along the rocker panels. I don't care about driving a fancy truck, but the rust was really awful and unprofessional looking. Buying a new truck was out of the question for me given the ridiculous cost of vehicles today and I frankly like my old truck (I just didn't like the way it looked). Rashaad told me he could, “make it look like new”. I was skeptical given the extent of the rot and the fact that none of my local body shops would touch the job. I found Arc Wheels Welding by way of a random internet search, not through word of mouth, so that made me a bit nervous too. I couldn't feel more fortunate that I found Rashaad. He is a miracle worker and a man of his word. He repaired all the rust around my fender wells, rockers, and applied bed liner to the bed. Rashaad's promise to make my truck look like new sounded too good to be true, but he absolutely delivered. I was shocked when I saw it for the first time. Simply amazing!! The quality of Rashaad's work is matched only by the quality of his character and his ethic. He was easy to work with, clear on the deliverables, and came through for me in every way. I couldn't be happier!”
Rust repair and patch panels is the work Maple 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 3.2 miles and about 10 minutes from Maple Heights. Take East 131st Street south to Libby Road, or Broadway Avenue if you are coming from the Stafford side. Free customer parking on site. Open Monday to Friday, 1pm to 8pm, closed weekends.
About 3.2 miles, roughly ten minutes up East 131st to Libby Road or along Broadway. The shop is at 12212 Corlett Ave, Cleveland, OH 44105, Monday to Friday, 1pm to 8pm.
Sometimes, and often it means it is not worth fixing at their rates using replacement panels. A fabricated repair is a different job at a different price. Send photos to 216.309.1567 and you will get a straight answer, including the answer that the car really is done.
Yes, and they are the two most common jobs from Maple Heights. Both get cut back past the visible rot, replaced with shaped steel, welded, dressed and treated inside and out.
No. This is a metal shop. The vehicle leaves dressed, treated and ready for your painter.
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.
