SoCalDesertRider wrote:
I agree, skid plates are meant to be sacrificial. May the sacrificing begin!
This has always been my understanding about the skid plate-bars. They drag preventing your camper frame from dragging. If they get bent, do exactly as you did, get them straightened out and drive on! (literally).
If you put rollers on them, you are lowering the skid bars even more. You can remove the bars completely, but then you run the risk of dragging you stabilizer jacks or dragging something else under the end of the trailer. They are sacrificial, and sounds like they did their job for you.
The other option is to flip the axles so the trailer sits higher.
Responses saying, just don't drag the trailer is really a cop-out response. I think everyone with a trailer will drag the end sometime. It's inevitable. I drug my Outback turning around in a church parking lot last March. The ground had just the right amount of dip. Luckily, it was a gravel parking lot, so no damage, except a skid mark in the gravel. I was surprised the end drug, because my Outback sits pretty high. I do not have any bars. Wish I did.
So, I think just getting the bars straightened was the right thing to do. I do not advise doing anything else. They fulfilled their purpose!
