Replacing crappy trailer ramp extension

[QOTHL]

...because the one that came with the trailer is a big POS and DAIAMOND TRAILERS AND TROJAN TRAILER SALES won't honor their warranty.

Anyone have any ideas? I've seen some pretty nice ones made of aluminum. Please let me know what ya'll think.

 

[Thrashingcows]

Do you have some pics of your trailer and how the current ramps work?

 

[QOTHL]

Brand new, just picked it up in GA to get this car.

Beginning of car show season and it's already broken, maybe 3 mos later. The screws for the hinge pulled out of the plywood. Just FYI, when I contacted Diamond Trailer, they told me the trailer I bought with heavy duty axles for carrying a car - I never made a secret that I was going to be hauling cars - told me the trailer was not rated for hauling cars. I asked what it was rated for and why did they sell me a trailer that was unsafe for hauling cars when that's what I bought it for? The guy I talked to is named Butch if anyone is interested. A real DICK.

Thinking about this design:

 

[dadsbee]

Were you letting it flap away in the trailer and it fell off? All the mfg's do it pretty much the same, but you need to peg it in place or they'll pound the paint off your wing or land on the trunk!

 

[Cranky]

If you like being blinded by the sun on sunny days, go ahead and use that polished diamond plate crap. Mine just had treads and after years of putting up with it, and after needing a new 3/4" deck on the door I just those damn things off!

 

[QOTHL]

Were you letting it flap away in the trailer and it fell off? All the mfg's do it pretty much the same, but you need to peg it in place or they'll pound the paint off your wing or land on the trunk!
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No, we saw the screws pulling out of the plywood after driving a car on maybe 3 times and we took it off before it may have fallen on a car. The hinge warped, the plywood split, crappy design. At least yours has a metal edge. They didn't even put that on mine.

 

[QOTHL]

If you like being blinded by the sun on sunny days, go ahead and use that polished diamond plate crap. Mine just had treads and after years of putting up with it, and after needing a new 3/4" deck on the door I just those damn things off!

I don't need diamond plate but I like the design for the end of the ramp.

 

[dadsbee]

No, we saw the screws pulling out of the plywood after driving a car on maybe 3 times and we took it off before it may have fallen on a car. The hinge warped, the plywood split, crappy design. At least yours has a metal edge. They didn't even put that on mine.

Probably doesn't help that they were cheap on hinge length and didn't put it all the way across! As for that full flip ramp, imagine if that sucker comes loose during a long haul !

 

[493 Mike]

If you cut some wood wedges and screwed them to the plywood at the correct tread width for your car they would take the weight off the hinge. I would put maybe 3 where each tire will roll up.
Mike

 

[dvw]

Every trailer I've owed had the extension fastened the same way. Though I've never had the extension come completely off. Mine isn't latched to the door either. Eventually the screws didn't hold well on my current trailer (2001). I used these with machine screws.
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Doug

 

[6PKRTSE]

My trailer is a 2007. Flapper ramp screwed in the same way. Never had any issues to date (knock on wood). Has hauled hundreds of cars thousands of miles.