Trailer question

[John DeGeorge]

I have heard of guys taking their boat trailers to the places that do spray-in bed liners for pickups, and having their trailers coated in that. I live on a gravel road, and after having my new boat for only a year, I have several rock chips on the bottom support bars of my trailer, and it's only a matter of time before it starts to rust from the paint chipping, has anyone tried the bedliner stuff? If so, how did it work? and how much did it cost?

 

[Staci Matheis]

I wouldn't waste my money, John. From what I've seen, the trailers most often rust from the insides of the tubes out.



On my first trailer, I cut 3/4" holes in the sides of the rails prior to taking it in salt water so that I could also rinse out the insides at a car wash. I would think that this might have also promted air flow and drying..... But I don't know for sure.....



me!

 

[Michael Snow]

John, here's where it gets even uglier. Look at the bottom of your boat. Those are the expensive rock chips to fix. I saw a boat recently that had a tarp (for lack of a better word) that laced from the front of the trailer to about the middle of it. It was obviously designed as a rock deflector and may have been custom from one of the boat cover places. I don't recall seeing holes in it (to drain), but I didn't look that closely.

 

[Scott Hammer TOXIC]

Snowman, kinda seems like overkill....trailer tire rocks won't hit it and rocks from the tow vehicle might but seems to me it would be simpler to put some flaps on the truck...no chips in mine from towing...rocks in the water, now that's another thing....



TOXIC

 

[Bryan McDonough]

Weld diamond plate from the front to your first cross beam. Saw a skeeter trailer done this way. looked good.

 

[David Butler]

I agree with Toxic, put a big mud flap on tow vehcile. damage will come from tow vechile more than from anything esle.

Dave

 

[Steve Rizza]

I have seen a few catalogs that sell a big set of flaps that hook onto the reciever hitch.That way you don't have big ugly flaps on all the time.They are big ones that go nearly the whole way across the back of the truck,should stop just about anything.



Steve