Outstanding

Thank you, good information!

I have an aluminum HT. I have mild to moderate pitting. I have pressure washed and sanded the floor. What are the next steps and products to use. Thank you.

Nice video thanks!!

Is there an undercoating that will stop the rust and protect against urine?

I'm on my 4th used trailer. Just downsized from a 3 horse LQ to a 3 horse, steel, bumper pull. Someone overlaid the wood floor with plywood. I pulled it all out and completely replaced the floor, but my question is, do torsion axles wear out? I get mixed opinions on that.

Junk and so expensive .

Can I replace my wood top with an aluminum top? Can I use a vapor barrier and stanless bolts?

Great seminar, thanks for sharing. I did find coupler springs at etrailer

Nice job guys, love the use of props and seeing all the different products.

Is this info still relevant today? I’m looking at buying a 22’’ steel or 20’ aluminum car trailer this week. Just wondering how this info can still be relevant today. Considering this video is 7 years old.

Ohhh. Valuable knowledge thank you.

I just heard that baking soda helped with this

What is your opinion of the Cimarron or CM all aluminum trailers?

Thank you. I'll bring my hammer and ladder and a notepad to denote defects

At what point would you say you need to replace flooring if there are tiny holes? Are just a few still safe to haul with?

Great job feller

Very good explanation.

AND THAT'S WHAT YA GET WHEN YOU HAVE NO SUSPENSION.

Stop the scraping!

Do I need to replace the wood on the inside of the horse trailer

Finally a Man that works with his hands and has real Knowledge and not a sales person talking crap.

Thank you so much for providing this information!! I had no clue!! I think you will save me time & money (& safety for my horse) by knowing what to look out for when buying a trailer.

Thank you the information, it is helping me out a lot. I cant really seem to find any information like this. When I research using the web all I get is Trump aluminum and steel. So finding your video was a surprise. Question I have "Does the aluminum corrode away first if the aluminum is against steel? Or do both metals equally corrode?". I'm new to working with metals so please bare with me. Working on my first pickup truck and I am currently fixing rust holes. I used aluminum pieces as a form to adhere bondo product, in which is new to me as well to clean up the rust holes. I am not really a fan of bondo but this is a band-aid until I can purchase quarter panels and learn to weld them on. I recently discovered that aluminum against steel is a no no. So will the aluminum go away first or will the steel? Thanks again, stay safe.

Do you find Exiss trailers to be of quality and durable design?

Are you saying to lay down plastic under the trailer when it is stored/parked on a gravel driveway? THANKS!!

What is the name of the product in the yellow can?

Thank you!

Very useful info! THANKS!!!

Why don’t manufacturers paint the underneath the trailer?

Why not build the subfame out of Aluminium

This guy kicks ass! I like it.

Great information. Thank you

Excellent information and I learned so much! Thank you.

We bought an ATC toy hauler. It arrived with all kinds of things wrong with it. We’ve spent the past year documenting (videos and photos) the issues, on the phone and on the computer (emails) trying to get replacement parts and/or arranging to have things fixed. After over a year, things are finally close to what they should have been for a brand-new unit. Whenever I posted to ATC’s Facebook page, I was attacked, bullied for being disloyal, accused of everything from inflicting the damage ourselves to identity theft. It’s been a horrible, horrible experience. We’ve performed all but two of the repairs ourselves because, if the experts couldn’t build it correctly, how could we trust a dealer, who just sells them, to do a good job? The one time we did take it to the dealer to fix one of the rainwater leaks, they replaced the wrong part, and made the leaking area even larger.

Have you ever heard of Sundowner Trailers? They build all kinds of aluminum trailers. Any thoughts?

Steel wins

Put any material between the parts and you're guaranteeing "loose" hardware. The galvanic corrosion is due to using "stainless steel" or zinc-dichromate hardware and/or shitty trailer/truck wiring and improper grounding of electric trailer brakes and lighting. With aluminum/steel "composite" trailers you must run "full" wiring to every electrical load and not just "ground" brakes and lights to the "frame" and count on the "ball" to ground the trailer to the truck. ESPECIALLY with "bolt-in" and/or "hide-a-ball". Back in the "good old days" when you'd weld a "plate" to the frame and weld the ball into the plate or at least have it threaded into a nut welded to the plate and incandescent bulbs were the only option and brake controllers were add-on accessories and trucks and trailers had "real" wiring, even aluminum trailers were "grounded" good enough to prevent galvanic corrosion providing the manufacturer had half a clue and didn't "cut corners" on materials substituting "shiny" hardware for "rust magnet" plain or phosphate steel. And they used actual BOLTS with NUTS instead of CAP SCREWS threaded into "weldments". There are hundreds of thousands of "composite" semi-trailers and especially livestock "pots" that hold up fine for decades and decades because they're engineered, built, wired and operated correctly from the word go and are pulled by tractors that are the same way. But there are also fly-by-night "shops" that perform shoddy or outright "wrong" inspections/maintenance/service/repair/parts replacement and either "discover" non-existent "problems" to "fix" and/or in the process of "fixing" actual "problems" create more problems and usually fail to "fix" anything correctly. "Horse people" and "RVers" in particular make good targets for crooked and/or incompetent "shops" because it's their "pets" and/or "loved ones" who they haul around the countryside and who "live" in those trailers anywhere from days to months per year. Any "trailer" that needs major structural repair and/or replacement really "needs" to be "scrapped" and/or returned to the manufacturer for "failure analysis" by the "engineers" who built it along with the owner/operator and tow vehicle for a "whole system" inspection and diagnosis. 90% of the time the real "problem" is "human error" in putting the trailer and tow vehicle into service originally and/or subsequent to some kind of "service" when the FIRST "symptoms" of the disease of improper "setup" show up. "Intermittent" or "insufficient" or "non-existent" trailer brake and/or lighting operation, blown fuses and/or tripping breakers and/or melted visible links and/or burned out flasher on the toe vehicle, etc etc etc. Any "shop" that used "Scotch-Lok" and/or common, cheap and "unsealed" electrical "connectors" and will "set up" a tow vehicle not factory-equipped or at least "factory equippable" to pull any given "trailer" using a strictly "plug and play" OEM/OEM-quality approach is highly likely to "discover" all sorts of "problems" with the "engineering" and/or "construction" of the trailer, tow vehicle or both "down the road".

Lights would be the least of my concerns. The frame would be 1st.

Hey, u sell used trailers bud? ??

DUDE!!! Stop scraping while you are talking!!! Do one or the other, take turns, etc ... b/c argh! Making my brain scream! 😱 🤯

Anytime two dissimilar metals are against each other especially outside you will get some type of corrosion even aluminum and stainless steel.The best trailers overall that have to sit outside are galvanized steel ones.

So your saying don't waste the money on a aluminum trailer but buy steel or a galvanized steel trailer ?

Are there any particlar brand you would reconmend for strength and durability?

Very nice video. Thank you!

Thank your for this very concise video. Looking at a used trailer this weekend and this gave me some great pointers. I do wish you had a PDF checklist with all the things to check.

How good are the all aluminum atc carhauler trailers. Im thinking of getting one.

Looking at a trailer today! Thank you. I wish I lived in your state - I'd just come buy a used trainer from you!!!

I have a 2006 WW 2 horse slant BP. I am replacing tires, also buying new rims and will be looking for someone in my area to do some restoration on the metal body. The rust isn't too bad yet, Florida is not kind to metal trailers. I checked the floor under mats today and it will need at least the first board replaced. From all these videos on KZfaq, most all wood trailer floors seem to run long/horizontal. Mine is vertical, it's considered a stock trailer. Is one method of wood floors better/longer lasting than another? Just curious why they are made different, thanks Catherine

This is a really useful video, good information presented concisely.