Bent tongues straightened or replaced, couplers and safety chain mounts rewelded, A frames reinforced where the road has worked them loose.
4.9 50 reviews from Cleveland customers
Rated with the BBBArc Wheels Welding LLC, since 2023
Black ownedIndependent shop on Cleveland's southeast side
Everything the road does to a trailer arrives through the tongue. Every pothole, every hard stop, every time somebody backed into something. It is a lever with the whole trailer on one end and a ball on the other, and it absorbs shocks that the rest of the frame never sees.
So when a trailer starts tracking badly, wandering behind the truck or sitting nose high or nose low, the tongue is the first place to look rather than the last. A tongue that is bent even slightly changes the geometry of everything behind it.
Bent A frames, usually from jackknifing or from a hard hit while backing. Often not visible until you measure diagonals and find them different.
Coupler mounts tearing at the weld, which is the failure that actually drops a trailer on the road.
Safety chain brackets pulling out, because they are welded to sheet rather than to structure on a lot of light trailers.
Jack mounts cracking, which is minor until the jack punches through and takes the mounting plate with it.
Corrosion inside the tongue tube, which is a closed section that collects water through the coupler bolt holes.
A tongue with a gentle bend and no kinked metal gets straightened and checked against the frame. That is the cheaper repair and it holds.
A tongue that is kinked, creased or has cracked at the bend gets the damaged section replaced, because straightening metal that has already yielded gives you a part that yields again in the same spot at a lower load.
Coupler mounts always get reinforced rather than simply rewelded. A mount that tore once was under specified for what it was carrying, and putting the same weld back in the same place is a repair with an expiry date.
Anything where the coupler or the safety equipment is worn past spec. We will weld the mount, but a worn coupler needs replacing and we are not going to weld around a part that should be in a bin.
Often, yes. A bent A frame puts the trailer off centre behind the ball and it will hunt at speed. Axle alignment and tire pressure cause it too, so it is worth measuring rather than guessing.
If the metal has not kinked or cracked, yes, and that is the cheaper repair. Once it has creased, the section gets replaced, because straightened yielded steel bends again at a lower load than it took the first time.
No. That is the failure that puts a trailer loose on the road. If you have found a crack there, do not tow it. Call 216.309.1567 and the welder comes to it.
Yes, and we tie them into actual structure. A lot of light trailers have chain brackets welded to thin sheet, which is fine until the day it matters.
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.
