Trailer deck refinish

Rainy Day Auto said
you must be like REALLY good buddies. Every single time I let a friend take this trailer out (three times total) something came back messed up ......so now I don't even let my relatives use it.
1. The first time it came back with wrecked fender. the excuse "so sorry, I am not used to driving with a trailer and I forgot to turn wide" I ended up footing the bill to fix it because he wanted to have a back woods hillbilly friend of his take it (and probably use it) and weld on a new fender. HOW ABOUT NO, so I just fixed it myself.
2. The second time one of the ramps came back messed up and one of the battery cables for the winch was melted and of course no one saw anything and no one knows anything....I got the blank stare like "ramp, what's that!?!?!" "the cable was like that" (yea right)
3. The third time it came back and the spare tire was missing .......again no one saw anything, no one knows anything, "what's a tire".... I ended up having to replace it, out of my own pocket.
So now I just say NO....if they think I am an *** ...oh well, but no one takes it out of my sight. LOL

Well, RainyDayAuto, I just learned my lesson the hard way on lending out ANYTHING, especially my car hauler trailer. From now on, I'm gonna be a horse's ***...NOBODY borrows it ever again. The old trailer wasn't much to begin with but it is a solid piece. I've been upgrading it so I can use it to go to Carlisle next July. Just a few weeks ago, I put all new hubs (2 of em electric brakes/changed over to a 5 X 4.5 pattern), new bearings, seals, brand new white spoke wheels & tires on it and have used it 2-3 times without any issues at all...maybe 500 miles max on the tires, if that. All I had left to do was a repaint, which I planned to do this winter.
Well, a couple of my "friends" begged me to let them borrow it and my winch as they had a Jeep that was broke down and needed to get it home. I had other commitments and couldn't do it myself. I was reluctant to lend it, but I did....baaaadddd mistake. Got it back with the entire left side rear hub (electric brake one) completely missing!!! No tire, no wheel, no drum, no brake assembly, no bearings, no seal, no spindle....no nothing but a bare end axle tube with nothing in it!!!!! It looks like the spindle to tube weld broke completely clean off....I need to check the others before using it again. I don't blame them for a failed weld, but the pisser part of this: Nobody knows anything. No one saw anything. Nobody heard anything...nice. Nobody offered to repair. So I just got on etrailer.com web site and priced out all the parts/pieces, wheel/tire etc. to put it all back together: $265 just for the parts.
NOPE...NEVER again. Horse's *** or not, life or death or not....it ain't leaving my shop unless I'm pulling it with MY truck. I'm done!!