Is It Worth Repairing a Snowblower? The Fees Decide It
On a two-stage or three-stage machine, almost always. A realistic small repair reconstructs to $130–$325 against a $785–$2,015 two-stage replacement — Lawn Love’s typical band, with a three-stage’s starting at $1,800 — and the machines routinely outlive the ten-year lifespan Consumer Reports assumes for them.
On a single-stage, the answer has surprisingly little to do with what broke. It depends on how the shop charges. A $29.99 belt becomes a $240 bill once a service call and an hour minimum are added, and the average single-stage snowblower is $525 new.
And before either of those: if the auger has stopped turning, check the $1.72 part that is designed to break. It is the cheapest failure on the machine, and worth ruling out before anyone prices the most expensive one.
Costs verified August 2026. Every figure below is either a manufacturer catalog price or a named shop’s published rate, both read in August 2026.
One thing to establish before anything else
There is no methodology-backed cost aggregator for snowblower repair. For lawn mowers, LawnStarter and Thumbtack both publish repair ranges with a stated method behind them — LawnStarter says it contacted repair shops across the US, Thumbtack that it tracks the estimates its pros send — and neither of them, nor HomeGuide, publishes the snowblower equivalent. What fills that search result instead is a ring of content pages recycling each other’s numbers, and a good share of the figures circulating — “$45 auger belt,” “$60–$90 drive belt” — are labor lines from a single shop’s price list, quoted as though they were the whole bill. They omit the part entirely.
So this page does not borrow an installed range. It builds each figure from the manufacturer’s own part price plus a named shop’s published labor charge plus that shop’s fixed fees, and shows the arithmetic. Where a number could not be built that way, it is left out and said so.
The decision tree
Work down it. Most people stop at the first or second line.
1. Has the auger stopped turning while the engine still runs normally? → On a two- or three-stage machine, suspect a sheared pin before anything else. Part cost is $1.72–$20.09. See below. One Toro line is the exception: on the Power Max, an obstruction stalls the engine rather than leaving the auger still — so if yours stalls under load, you are looking for something else. Check which Toro you have first, though. The exception is that line, not the brand: Toro sells a Power Max HD auger bolt pin kit at $18.69 on its own store.
2. Is it a single-stage machine? → Then the question is not the part, it is the shop’s fixed fees. Skip to the fee section. A repair that reconstructs above roughly $250 is competing with a $280–$770 replacement.
3. Is the auger gearbox or the engine the failed item? → These are the only two failures on a snowblower where the part alone can be a meaningful fraction of a new machine: $432–$459 for Cub Cadet’s two gearbox assemblies, and $764–$936 for an engine. The gearbox figure spreads far wider than the engine’s. Ariens’ priced gear cases run $74.69–$580.69, so get the part number priced before you decide. Everything else is cheap by comparison.
4. None of the above? → On a two- or three-stage machine, fix it. The arithmetic below does not get close.
Failure, part, labor, verdict
The asset on this page. Part prices are the manufacturers’ own catalog prices; labor figures are the flat rates one shop publishes and are labor only; the all-in column is a reconstruction, not a quote.
| What failed | OEM part price | Published labor | Reconstructed all-in | Single-stage ($525 avg) | Two-stage ($1,400 avg) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shear pin (2 & 3-stage only) | $1.72 single, $9.53 kit, $20.09 three-stage kit | owner-serviceable per the manual | part, or part + one shop visit | n/a — no shear pins | Check first. Not a decision. |
| Auger belt | $22.97–$41.21 (Cub Cadet, 14 listings), $17.54–$72.38 (Briggs — the nine titled auger belts are in stock only up to $36.18) | $115 flat | $223–$251 | Fix — the belt is 10–17% of the bill | Fix |
| Friction / drive disc | Cub Cadet rubber $16.31–$38.61, complete wheels $31.47–$160.07; Ariens rubber $44.79, assembly $224.19 (list, both catalogs); $38.55 Briggs driven disc | $115 flat | $216–$370 on Cub Cadet parts, $424–$434 on Ariens’ assembly | Judgment call | Fix |
| Carburetor, clean or replace | kit $14.43–$26.39, Briggs’ ten cheapest (none names a snow engine); carburetor $78.65–$115.14, the two that name a snow engine ($47.39–$60.49 Briggs band — a floor, see caveat) | $115 + rebuild kit, or $75 as a tune-up add-on | $170–$325: $170 cleaned, $214–$236 rebuilt, $279–$325 replaced | Judgment call | Fix |
| Recoil starter rope | — | $35 if accessible, $115 if disassembly needed | $130–$210 | Depends which of those two it is | Fix |
| Scraper bar / skid shoes | $20.18–$87.32 bar kit; $7.59–$86.19 per shoe, median $10.42; kits $34.58 and $42.52 | not published separately | part + one visit | Fix — cheap parts | Fix |
| Rubber auger / paddles (single-stage) | 21-inch kit $74.69 (Ariens, list) or $87.40 (Cub Cadet); other kits $98.84–$179.34; $99.76–$112.28 Briggs auger flight kit | not published separately | $275–$297 on a 21-inch kit, at one billed hour | The single-stage judgment call | n/a |
| Impeller bearing | not published | $115 flat | — | n/a — no impeller | Fix |
| Auger gearbox | $432.17 (30″), $458.65 (28″) Cub Cadet; Ariens gear cases $74.69–$580.69 | not published — several hours | $600+ on a Cub Cadet assembly | n/a | A real decision |
| Engine | $763.99–$936.25 | not published | $964+ | Replace machine | Usually replace machine |
Part prices: Cub Cadet snow blower parts catalog and the Briggs & Stratton online store, read August 2026 and every Briggs band above re-enumerated from the collection September 7, 2026. Ariens’ gear cases are the enumeration on the snowblower cost page, list prices. Labor figures: Mobile Mower & Snowblower Repair LLC, Danvers MA, published rates effective January 1, 2026, labor only. Machine prices: Lawn Love, updated December 27, 2025.
How the all-in column is built: the part plus one billed hour at either of the two on-site fee structures worked through below. That is Mobile Mow’s $115 flat plus its $95 service call ($210), or CSE’s $60 trip plus an hour at $140 ($200), both re-read September 10, 2026. The carburetor floor is the exception. It is Matt’s $95 single-stage tune-up with its $75 carburetor add-on, which its own page sells only with a tune-up, and it buys a cleaning with pickup included. Above it, Mobile Mow’s “Carburetor Clean / Rebuild” line is $115 “Plus cost of rebuild kit”, which puts a rebuild on one of the ten cheapest kits in Briggs’ catalog at $214–$236 and a new carburetor at $279–$325. The rebuild figure is a floor twice over: none of those ten kits names a snow engine, and the Briggs kits that do name a single-cylinder engine run to $58.47, which would put the same job at $268. Where the labor is unpublished, one hour is a floor, not a book time. This column changed on September 10, 2026, and the old figures were never a quote at any shop on this page. The belt, disc and paddle floors read $180, $190 and $240. Each was its part plus $150, which is the CSE layer ($90 minimum plus $60 trip) this page dropped from its worked example on September 1, 2026. CSE has never published a $90 minimum, and its real $95 minimum already includes the trip. The carburetor’s $120 priced the add-on without the tune-up it requires, and its $270 top was the 799866 at $60.49 plus $210, a vertical-shaft part the caveat below rules out for a snowblower. That top was too dear for a kit rebuild and too cheap for either carburetor that names a snow engine, so it priced no job at all. The engine’s $700–$1,200+ dates from when Briggs’ cheapest snow engine was listed here at $474.95, and it was never raised when that became $763.99, so the all-in floor sat below the part alone. The belt cell also moved from the two listings once quoted ($26.39 and $29.99, seventh and ninth of fourteen) to the whole category. No verdict in either machine column changed.
Two notes on that table, because both matter more than the numbers.
The single-stage and two-stage columns are not the same machine with a different price. A single-stage snowblower drives a rubber paddle auger directly off a belt — no gearbox, no shear pins, and the paddles and scraper bar are consumables. A two-stage drives a steel auger through a gearcase, usually with shear pins between them, and a separate impeller. Usually, not always: Toro’s page for the Power Max 826 OHAE says “Toro doesn’t use shear pins. Instead we designed a system 2x stronger that’s designed to work, not break” — an obstruction stalls that engine instead of shearing a bolt, so the cheapest row in this table is one that machine’s owners cannot buy. Not every Toro owner, though — the Power Max HD line does take auger pins, and Toro sells the kit at $18.69, describing it as “a weak bolt that connects the auger to the auger shaft” whose pins “break as designed to protect your auger gearcase.” The brand statement is printed on a product page; the parts catalog is the one that tells you whether your machine has the part. Four of the ten rows above — shear pin, auger gearbox, impeller bearing, rubber paddles — do not exist on the other machine at all. Any cost guide presenting one repair list for “snowblowers” has not accounted for that.
Neither figure in the Briggs band is a snow part, and one of them can be positively ruled out. Briggs & Stratton lists the 594057 at $47.39 and the 799866 at $60.49. Neither listing confirms Snow Series compatibility — but the 799866’s own description says it fits “select 12 cu. in. vertical shaft L-Head engines,” and a snowblower engine is horizontal-shaft. That is the same orientation constraint that governs the engine row above, and it disqualifies the top of this band rather than merely leaving it unconfirmed. The 799866 is the right part on a walk-behind mower, which is exactly why it is the wrong one here.
Shaft orientation is the one filter Briggs’ catalog lets you apply without a model number, and it is worth applying. The collection holds 271 complete carburetors, not the 68 this page counted until September 7, 2026 — that was one page of a catalog pulled whole. Read 271 as a floor. At least two complete carburetors are absent from that collection because their category tags are empty strings, and the carburetor page names both. Of the 271, 14 state a shaft orientation — ten vertical, running $39.83–$266.82, and four horizontal: 798653 at $61.50 for 12 cu. in. horizontal Intek OHV engines, 798917 at $78.65 for 12 cu. in. horizontal-shaft snow thrower engines, 591378 at $146.04 for 20 cu. in. horizontal OHV, and 392587 at $156.29 for 22 and 25 cu. in. horizontal L-Head. The entire $47.39–$60.49 band this page prints sits below the cheapest of those four, by $1.01. Treat it as a floor for budgeting, not as the price of your part.
And the floor is now measurable, because two listings name a snow engine outright. The 798917 above is one; the other is 796122 at $115.14, “used on select 200000 and 210000 series snow engines” — the only one of the two in stock, and the only complete carburetor in the catalog that names a Briggs snow-engine series rather than a displacement. So the honest range for a snowblower carburetor is $78.65–$115.14, which is 1.3 to 1.9× the $47.39–$60.49 this page reports above, and the $115.14 is the figure to budget if you want the one you can actually buy today. Confirm against your own engine model with Briggs’ parts lookup before ordering either.
The $1.72 part that looks like a dead machine
This is the part of the page worth remembering longest, and it is a piece of engineering rather than a price.
A shear pin is the bolt connecting the auger to the shaft the gearcase drives. Ariens, which builds the machines, describes it as “designed to break, or ‘shear,’ which in this case is a good thing” — when the auger swallows a rolled newspaper or a chunk of ice, the pin fails first, and the gearcase and shaft “continue moving, undamaged.”
Put the two catalog prices side by side and the design intent is unmistakable:
| The sacrificial part | What it protects |
|---|---|
| Cub Cadet shear pin, .25″ × 1.5″ — $1.72 | Cub Cadet auger gearbox assembly — $432.17–$458.65 |
Roughly 250 to 1, within one maker’s catalog. The pin is built to fail so that the gearbox does not, which is why a sheared pin is the first thing to rule out when the engine runs and the auger will not turn. The ratio is a property of the maker, not of the design. Ariens sells its shear bolts only as a kit of three at $20.52 list, and its cheapest priced gear case, a compact aluminum one, is $74.69.
It also carries the one warning worth taking seriously. Ariens is explicit that the correct pin must be used, because an ordinary hardware-store bolt of the same diameter will not shear at the designed load — and the thing standing behind it is that $432–$459 gearbox. Substituting a grade-5 bolt is the most expensive two-dollar saving available on this machine. The replacement procedure itself belongs to your machine’s manual and your dealer; the part number is in the service parts section of that manual.
Three-stage machines add an accelerator with its own shear pin at $2.50, and a dedicated three-stage kit at $20.09.
Why the bill is mostly not the part
Here is the whole snowblower cost problem in one worked example.
Auger belt on a two-stage, reconstructed Part $29.99 + labor $115 (flat rate, Mobile Mow & Snow) + service call $95 = $239.99 Same job at a shop billing hourly Part $29.99 + trip charge $60 + one hour at $140/hr (CSE) = $229.99
One hour is not a guess: Mobile Mow bills this job flat at $115 and charges $115/hr, so its own price sheet books the belt at exactly an hour. CSE’s $95 minimum appointment charge will not cover it — that minimum buys the trip plus fifteen minutes, and this is not a fifteen-minute job.
The part is 12–13% of the bill. Travel alone is 26–40% of it — and it does not shrink because the job is small. That is the structural fact about snowblower repair: fixed fees dominate small bills, and a single-stage machine has nothing but small bills. Note what the two reconstructions do not show: two shops with completely different fee structures, in different states, land within $10 of each other on the same job. The structure changes who pays for what. It barely moves the total.
Four shops publish enough to compare, and the spread is not what most people expect:
| Shop | Location | Shop rate | Travel | Single-stage tune-up | Two-stage tune-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt’s Small Engine Repair | St. Anthony, MN | not published | free within 5 miles | $95 | $110 |
| HDR Small Engine Repair | Traverse City, MI | not published | $8.00/mile one way, to $160 | not published | $161 |
| Mobile Mow & Snow | Danvers, MA | $115/hr, 1 hr minimum | $95 service call | $229 in-area | $299 |
| CSE Mobile Repair | Lakeville, MN | $140/hr | $60 trip | $109.95 + parts | $129.95 + parts |
Parts are extra at two of the four, not at all four — and that is the row a price comparison skips. Mobile Mow marks its packages “Parts additional” and CSE’s read “+Parts”, though CSE publishes what that comes to: an average total of $125 single-stage and $140–$150 two-stage. Matt’s and HDR do the opposite, naming a new spark plug and an oil change inside the package price — HDR adds a fuel filter where applicable — so what is extra at those two is parts beyond the listed contents: belts, cables, carburetor kits. Mobile Mow’s tune-up figures include the service call; the other shops’ do not. HDR bills travel by road distance rather than by the trip — $8.00 per one-way mile, to a 20-mile limit — because it drives the distance four times to collect and return a machine. It is the highest published travel charge of the four, and the only one that keeps climbing with distance.
Strip the bundled service call out of Mobile Mow’s $299 and four shops price the same nominal service: $110, $129.95, $161 and $204 — a 1.9× spread, in the same season, at shops that all serve snow country. Nothing in the machine explains that. The shop does.
Almost none of that spread is available to you, though, and that is the more useful number. Its two ends are in Minneapolis and on Boston’s North Shore. Nobody chooses between them. This sample holds exactly one pair of shops in the same market — Matt’s in St. Anthony and CSE in Lakeville are both Twin Cities — and there the two-stage service is $110 against $129.95, a 1.18× spread; the single-stage is $95 against $109.95, 1.16×. Match them properly and it barely moves: Matt’s $110 has the plug and the oil in it already, and CSE’s own published all-in average for the same job is $140–$150, so contents-for-contents it is about 1.3×. One caution on that figure, and it is large enough to change the advice — CSE’s $60 trip charge is printed in the repair column of its page rather than in the maintenance card, and the page does not say whether a maintenance visit carries it. Re-read September 2026: it still does not. If a tune-up visit carries it, CSE’s $140–$150 becomes $200–$210 against a Matt’s $110 that already includes collection within five miles, and the local spread is 80 to 90%, not 30%. So the honest reading is a floor rather than a figure: within one metro, shopping this service around is worth at least 20 to 30%, and on the worse reading nearly as much as the 90% that separates two states — and which of those it is turns on one question, not on the machine. Ask whether the tune-up price includes the trip. The 1.9× is what separates two snow-belt cities, not two driveways.
Which makes the useful phone call a short one: what is your travel charge, is there a minimum, and are parts OEM or aftermarket? On a $240 belt job those three answers move the total further than anything about the belt.
The full fee breakdown — diagnostic charges, minimums, and what each shop keeps if you decline the repair — is in small engine shop rates and fees.
Where the decision is genuinely real
Only two failures can qualify, and both are on two- and three-stage machines.
The auger gearbox. $432.17 for a 30-inch assembly, $458.65 for the 28-inch, before labor. Those are Cub Cadet’s prices, and the only two complete assemblies in its gearbox category, re-read September 11, 2026. Against the $1,400 average two-stage they are roughly a third of a new machine, but a 30-inch gearbox does not go on an average machine. Cub Cadet’s own 30-inch machines list at $2,099 to $3,349, and against those the 30-inch unit is 13% to 21%. Other makers’ parts start far lower. Ariens’ 26 priced gear cases run $74.69 to $580.69, median $269.04, so the price turns on your part number, not on the word gearbox. Gearbox work is not a fast job, and no shop here publishes its labor. Against a single-stage — which has no gearbox — the question does not arise. The engine below costs more than any gear case either catalog prices.
The engine. Briggs & Stratton’s range is not a range so much as a shortlist: three Snow Series engines, all in stock, at $763.99, $858.86 and $936.25 — the 308cc 14.5-gross-torque 1450 Professional Series and two 420cc 21-gross-torque units. That is the whole snow-engine catalog, read September 7, 2026.
What you are buying at that price is not a bare engine: all three ship with an installed muffler and fuel tank. That is not what sets them so far above the rest of the catalog, though. Across the 214 engines in Briggs’ engine collection, the cheapest of any kind is a $249.13 163cc Exi, and it is a vertical-shaft engine, so it cannot go on a snowblower at all. The cheapest horizontal-shaft engine — the orientation a snowblower needs — is a $325.31 208cc CR950, re-read September 12, 2026, and its listing includes an installed muffler and fuel tank as well; the cheapest snow-specific engine is 2.3 times it. Until that read this page named the $335.92 127cc XR as the horizontal floor. The CR950 has been listed since April 2026, and its title says Horizontal Engine where the XR’s says Horizontal Shaft Engine. It is not counted as a snow engine here, although its description opens by promising to “power through the toughest winter conditions”: the same listing gives its applications as “log splitters, pressure washers, compressors, and tillers” and names no snow thrower, where the Snow Series listing says it is “specially designed to provide more power for quick and easy removal of all types of snow.” Shaft orientation is why a mower cost guide cannot price this job, and the multiple is why the gap is not small.
On a $525 single-stage the part alone is 146–178% of the machine. There is no arithmetic that rescues it. On a $1,400 two-stage it is 55–67% before labor, and the labor cannot be looked up: the one book-time document that would carry it, Briggs’ own repair-time schedule, declines to publish engine removal and replacement times at all. So the installed figure is the table’s reconstructed $964+: the cheapest of the three engines plus one billed hour at the cheaper of the two fee structures above, and an engine swap takes longer than an hour. That is at least 69% of a new machine. This line read $700–$1,200+, 50–86%, until September 10, 2026, which put the installed job below the 55% the part alone costs. Even on a two-stage with a sound chassis, auger and gearcase, that is a hard case to make — which is why the engine is the one row in the table above that returns a replace verdict on both machine types — replace machine on the single-stage, usually replace machine on the two-stage.
Two things to take to the counter, neither of which the catalog explains. The two 420cc units are described in identical terms — same displacement, same 21 ft-lb gross torque, same recoil-plus-110V-electric starter, same muffler and tank — and list $77.39 apart. If a dealer quotes you the dearer one, the catalog gives no published reason why. Note also that both 420cc engines carry 90 days of commercial-use warranty against the 308cc’s one year; on this shortlist the more expensive engine buys the shorter commercial coverage.
Everything else on the machine is a wear item. Belts, discs, scraper bars, skid shoes, paddles and shear pins run from $1.72 to $224.19 in parts. The top of that is Ariens’ complete friction-wheel assembly, and with a visit on top it is 31% of the average two-stage, so on a two-stage machine none of them is a decision.
Age, paddles, batteries, and a four-shop sample
A twelve-year-old machine is not automatically finished. Consumer Reports’ own buy-versus-plow analysis assumes a ten-year snowblower lifespan and notes that a properly maintained machine should last twice as long. Age is the weakest input in this decision. That analysis dates from 2014 and its price assumptions are stale, but the durability point is the part that has not changed.
Two cheap single-stage repairs are easy to mistake for a finished machine. Worn rubber paddles and a worn scraper bar are what makes an old single-stage stop clearing to the pavement, and they read like the machine is finished. A 21-inch paddle kit is $74.69 at Ariens list and $87.40 at Cub Cadet, and a scraper bar kit $20.18–$87.32. On either 21-inch kit the part is the smaller share of the bill. The rest is the $95 service call and the hour of labor on top of it.
Battery machines are a gap this page cannot fill honestly. Cordless snowblowers run $280–$1,400, and Lawn Love reports battery replacement is typically needed after two to five years. No manufacturer-published replacement-pack price could be verified for a current snowblower model, so no replacement figure is given here rather than an invented one. If you own one, get that price from the maker before you plan around it.
Repair pricing may be the least of it. All four shops above sit in the snow belt, three of them in Minnesota and Michigan. Four price lists across three states is a small sample, not a national average, and shop rates in a metro with a short winter can look nothing like these.
Either side of a snowblower verdict
- Snowblower repair cost, by failed component — the full bottom-up table, part by part
- Snowblower won’t start, or the auger won’t turn — symptom first, cost bracket second
- Is it worth repairing a lawn mower? — the same question where the failure type, not the fee structure, decides
- Storing outdoor power equipment for the season — the fuel mechanism behind most spring no-starts
- What to look for when replacing a snowblower — spec checklist by snowiest month and driveway size, and the rated-depth ladder only one brand publishes
- All the repair-or-replace pages — the same question on mowers, pressure washers and handheld
Sources: Cub Cadet snow blower parts catalog — shear pins, belts, auger gearboxes · Briggs & Stratton online store, snow blower parts and engines · Ariens on shear pins · Toro Power Max HD auger bolt pin kit (139-9901, replacing 133-2576) and its parts listing, read September 2, 2026 — the pin’s description and $18.69 price; the Power Max 826 OHAE parts catalog lists no auger pin, which is what scopes Toro’s no-shear-pin statement to that line · Mobile Mower & Snowblower Repair LLC, Danvers MA · Matt’s Small Engine Repair, St. Anthony MN · HDR Small Engine Repair and its pickup and delivery fees, Traverse City MI — both re-read September 1, 2026, unchanged · CSE Mobile Repair, Lakeville MN — the rate, trip charge, minimum and both seasonal-maintenance package prices are on the machine-type page, not on the /pricing index · Lawn Love snow blower prices (December 27, 2025) · Consumer Reports, snow blower vs. plow service (2014)
Part prices are the manufacturers’ own catalog prices read in August 2026 and will move. Labor and travel charges are four named shops’ own published rates, not a survey — three of the four are in Minnesota and Michigan. All-in figures are reconstructions built from those two inputs and are not quotes. Machine prices are a published third-party estimate. Shear-pin, belt and auger-gearbox work is priced here and left to your machine’s manual and a servicing dealer to perform, and a jammed auger or chute is cleared with the machine’s clearing tool, never by hand. Costs verified August 2026, shop figures September 2026; next scheduled review November 2026. All four snow-belt shops’ price pages were re-read September 2, 2026; CSE’s two seasonal-maintenance packages and the spark plug and oil named inside Matt’s and HDR’s packages were added at that read. The engine figures were re-read September 7, 2026 against both the snow blower parts and engines collections and corrected: this page had carried a $474.95–$952.00 range since it was drafted, and neither endpoint appears in either collection. The three Snow Series engines above are the complete set. The auger-belt and skid-shoe bands were re-enumerated the same day and both had been quoting a subset as a span: the belt band’s published $36.18 floor is in fact the median of the nine auger belts Briggs lists, three of which are cheaper and in stock, and the single skid shoe tops out at $86.19 rather than $14.13. Both cells now carry the full set. Until September 11, 2026 the gearbox row, the decision tree and the section above priced “the” gearbox from Cub Cadet’s two assemblies alone, and called it the one failure whose bill approaches a new machine, a paragraph above an engine that costs more. That day Cub Cadet’s gearbox category was re-read (five listings, two of them complete assemblies, both prices unchanged). Four of Ariens’ gear-case listings were also re-read at list: $74.69, $403.59, $577.24 and $580.69, the same four figures the snowblower cost page quotes. The count of 26 and the $269.04 median are that page’s September 7 enumeration and were not re-pulled. The same day the friction and paddle cells were widened to both catalogs’ spans as that page enumerates them. They had quoted one listing each, and the $98.27 that capped the wear-item range was the median of Cub Cadet’s seven complete friction wheels, not the top. Neither verdict moved.