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Hi Firstly trailers are always in high demand and always command a strong price in the secondhand market if your looking for a fair deal forget e bay for trailers as everyone wants one Take my word for it i spent weeks looking around for a decent 6 x 4 Trailer eventially i found one in my local Friday Ad.

Again like the one you have seen it was a bit tatty however from shopping around on e bay i found lots of companies selling replacement mudgaurds new light boxes ETc i picked up 2 new factory moulded strong 10Inch mudgaurds for £11.00 with postage and with the trailer being wooded they were a breeze to fit bought the stainless steel nuts and bolts from Wilkinsons for £0.97

The company is called leisure mart on E Bay User ID mart-01

I also fitted 8 stainless steel lashing rings measured and fitted to the sides these at my local trailer part shop where £8.00 each picked them up online for £16.00 for all Eight.

In relation to the price for the trailer £85.00 sounds fair i paid £200.00 for mine do you have any pictures of the trailer i could view I may be able to be more specific as to if this is a fair price or not

Is there any rusting to the axle or around the hubs, does the trailer woble if you shake the side.

Let us know

Providing the axle and suspension are in good order, the cosmetics are quite easy & cheap to sort out.

We paid £65 for a sad looking trailer with tatty plywood sides & base, but the main frame, axle & suspension were fine. I rubbed the angle iron frame down & painted it with black Smoothite, we replaced the plywood base, and replaced the sides with tounge'n'groove. I stained & Danish Oiled the tounge'n'groove before hubby fitted it, bought a new Pyramid cover & fixing studs, and it looks great now - hubby says it looks more like a piece of fine furniture. It was an interesting project to do, and it really didn't cost a lot to make a new trailer out of an old one.

First step will be a safety check, and make sure the tyres are in fairly good condition and not past their 'sell by date' which is the 6th year past their date of manufacture.

even if a tyre looks ok from the outside after this date, you cannot see any possible small cracks or perising going on internally, and they need to be replaced with tyres of the same grade and size.

Julia