Changing Brakes on Trailer

[Clean County PW]

My Brakes are just about shot on my trailer. I have a 7'-12'enclosed trailer with dual axel. I went to a place that changes brakes on trailers and they quoted me a price of, get this, $725 to do a brake job. I almost fell on my face.

Does anyone else change there brakes on there trailer themselves and is it a big deal?? I use to do my car brakes and I'm thinking how hard can it be to do my trailer brakes.

What do you guys/gals think??

Also where can I purchase brake shoes for my trailer??

 

[Mike Hughes]

I have my mechanic do it, although I dont remember it costing that much! Shop around, perhaps? I know you don't have alot of time on your hands, you should just find someone else to do it cheaper. Did they tell you how much $$$ the parts were?

 

[Rainman]

New brakes and drums for a 3500 lb axle cost about $150 per pair or $300 for tandem. You could just replace them yourself, it should take less than 1hr per axle. This would be for complete new brakes for a trailer that has none, they just bolt right on.

 

[Scott Stone]

I have a trailer shop that will totally replace the brake sfor me for around $100 an axle. This sounds like they do not know what they are doing, or don't want to do, so they quoted it high to see if you would bite. Same thing we do, they just got a little greedy.

Scott Stone