I need to sort a trailer for my car and after looking at a number on the net have decided to build my own. This way I know what I have unlike some of the rubbish on ebay, but best of all I can custom build it to fit my sideway.

After speaking to a few suppliers of parts (at least those that wanted to give it!) I have a good idea of how I will proceed, however it would be a help to 'sanity check' me if I could get hold of some plans of a few. I have googled and can't seem to find that much, so if anyone could help or point me in the right direction I'd be very grateful.

Cheers, Nick

Hi Nick,

I would save yourself a lot of work and buy an old caravan chasiss - having scratch built a small load trailer before there is a lot of work in my opinion.

I picked up an aluminium caravan chassis for £80 ( the ali is probably worth more than that!) and all it needs is some mud guards, trailer board and I have some galvanised sheet for the wheels to run on. It sits low to the ground - ideal for loading and I'm leaving the steady legs at each corner to give it stability when loading.

Everything else is there - like jockey wheel, hitch, suspension, axle, wheels - all the bits that add up to make a scratch build expensive.

Just an idea to think about.

Cheers
Ian

Ditto that idea

Cheers for the replies chaps, and I have thought about that. However, I want the trailer to be able to go into my sideway and a caravan chassis is too wide with the wheels on the outside. I need to have smaller wheels underneath the bed.

Cheers, Nick

I had the same dilema myself and ended up making my own, it cost around £750 in total, if you have a look in my photo archive you can see it, also some drawings.

I had the same criteria, it can only be as wide as the car that will sit upon it.

The trailer is made from pressed U section steel, the draw bar pivots on the chassis where it mounts just in front of the 10" wheels, this allows me to tilt the trailer to load.

I got the braked axle, hitch wheels and tyres etc as a complete kit on Ebay.

tows great BTW.

Regards Mark

If that is the case, get a caravan chassis as a starter and modify it to suite.

Don't forget, you get all the bits you need with it!

Another vote for a modded caravan chassis

Another for the caravan. Mine was £50 + £150 worth of steel to make this;


trailer3


trailer2

And it fit in my single garage.

Thanks again chaps. The caravan chassis is obviously the cheapest option, however as the Dax has a slightly wider track than most sevens, it won't fit between the caravan axle, and my sideway. If I put the wheels underneath, I will be able to get the trailer along my sideway no probs. I will go the same route as Mark has gone. Thanks again all.

Cheers, Nick

I had a caravan chassis built trailer ,that had ramps over the wheels that I used to drive over Worked well and cheap to build

Heres my part built one.

http://www.shedworks.eu/workshop.html

I am putting ramps up to the interior wheel arches and then a level surface for the front wheels to stand on, making the car front high, but easier to unload.

[Edited on 19-8-11 by designer]