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Open Roads Forum  >  Towing  > Tow vehicle miss match Reply to Topic  |  Subscribe  |  Print Topic  |  Post New Topic  |  Oldest first Newest first  Page of 2   Next snowpeke • View posts Nevada City California Senior Member Joined: 10/10/2004 View Profile Good Sam RV Club Member Posted: 07/06/19 10:15pm Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator While on the road I allways looking for miss matched tow vehicle and trailer. Today I saw one that was hard to believe! ( wish I had gotten a photo) This was a BMW sedan pulling a 23 to 25 foot travel trailer with ass end sagging way down. Wow! What have any of you guys seen? 2002 Chevy DuraMax 2014 jayco eagle Two Pekingese dogs blt2ski • View posts Kirkland, Wa Moderator Joined: 03/15/2001 View Profile Offline Posted: 07/06/19 10:23pm Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator A WD setup properly might have leveled said situation up, made it more sensible looking! Marty 92 Navistar dump truck, 7.3L 7 sp, 4.33 gears with a Detroit no spin 00 Chev C2500, V5700, 4L80E, 4.10, base truck, no options! 92 Red-e-haul 12K equipment trailer Check RV.Net Blogs at: blog.rv.net kknowlton • View posts southeast Idaho, formerly IL/WI border Senior Member Joined: 05/27/2005 View Profile Good Sam RV Club Member Offline Posted: 07/06/19 11:02pm Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator A couple years ago at a rest area, we saw a family with an older fullsize van pulling an even older trailer, perhaps 18-20' max. No WD hitch. Man, did they sag in the middle! ROBERTSUNRUS • View posts Salem, Oregon Senior Member Joined: 06/16/2010 View Profile Good Sam RV Club Member Offline Posted: 07/06/19 11:44pm Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator I saw a car towing about a 20' travel trailer using a receiver made for a bicycle rack. I believe those are 1 1/4"s with an adapter to 2" receiver and a ball. According to the license plates this vehicle and trailer made it about 3/4s the way across the country. "> Bob "> 2005 Airstream Safari 25-B 2000 Lincoln Navigator 2014 F-150 Ecoboost Equal-i-zer Yamaha 2400 edatlanta • View posts Maplesville, AL - Home Base Senior Member Joined: 08/13/2008 View Profile Good Sam RV Club Member Offline Posted: 07/07/19 06:18am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator I saw this at Wal-Mart a few years ago. Turns out they checked in to the campground where I was hosting an hour or so after I took this picture. They had traveled 250 miles in this condition and no clue prior to that. Click For Full-Size Image. Ed KM4STL 2006 GMC 2500HD CCSB 4x4 Duramax/Allison, Titan 52 gallon fuel tank, Prodigy Controller, B&W Companion Hitch, Progressive Industries EMS-PT50C, TST Systems 507 TPMS 2010 Jayco Designer 35RLTS,Cummins/Onan RV QG 5500 EVAP Fulltime since 2010 Lwiddis • View posts Los Angeles area :( Senior Member Joined: 08/12/2016 View Profile Good Sam RV Club Member Offline Posted: 07/07/19 07:31am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator If towing in a “V” wasn’t so unsafe...Duh...it would be funny. Edatlanta, did this guy shift cargo to the rear of the TT? Might have helped. Winnebago 2101DS TT & 2020 Chevy Silverado 1500 LTZ Z71, 300 watts solar-parallel & MPPT, Trojan T-125s. TALL pole for flags. Prefer USFS, COE, BLM, NPS, TVA, USF&WS, state & county camps. Bicyclist! 14 year Army vet - 11B40 then 11A - (MOS 1542 & 1560) opnspaces • View posts San Diego Ca Senior Member Joined: 12/22/2004 View Profile Offline Posted: 07/07/19 11:43am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator Just yesterday I say a Honda Odyssey pulling about a 21 foot trailer. The trailer was severely nose down and the Honda was riding pretty low as well. 1996 Suburban 4x4. 350, 4.10 3/4 ton 2005 Jayco Jay Flight 27BH 1986 Coleman Columbia Popup. naturist • View posts Lynchburg, VA Senior Member Joined: 04/24/2008 View Profile Good Sam RV Club Member Offline Posted: 07/07/19 12:48pm Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator I've seen a few scary things, but the most frightening one of all wasn't towing. It was a station wagon with one of those basket things hanging off the hitch. Judging by the windows of the wagon, the back was packed really full, as was the car-top carrier, as well as the rear basket. So much so, in fact, that the car was clearly hunkered down on the rear suspension, and the front wheels were close to floating. The driver missed his turn, and was using the highway crossover to turn around. The basket scraped a bit on the downside of a very gentle hump in the middle of the crossover, and it looked like the front wheels got a little air at one point. The vehicle clearly had a trailer hitch. I have no idea what the driver was thinking not renting a cargo trailer from U-Haul and putting that weight where it belonged, in the trailer. I hope he got wherever he was going without killing anybody. romore • View posts Okanagan valley British Columbia Senior Member Joined: 09/18/2010 View Profile Offline Posted: 07/07/19 08:01pm Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator I saw a similarly loaded Volvo wagon last summer, it didn't look like it had any suspension travel left. The scariest one was a lifted CJ-7 pulling an old construction camp trailer, he struggled to hang onto it at anything approaching highway speed. Waddya mean a weight distribution hitch? What's that? Hannibal • View posts Tampa Bay Area Senior Member Joined: 04/12/2002 View Profile Offline Posted: 07/08/19 05:01am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator At a busy campground we stayed in two weeks ago, we noticed quite a few TV/TT combos using just a tri-ball or drop ball mount with no WD checking in. Several various half ton pickups towing long TT's that likely needed WD to satisfy the receiver's weight ratings. I mind my business. '10 F250 XLT CC SB 5.4L 5spdTS 3.73 103k miles ex '95 Cummins,'98 12v Cummins,'01.5 Cummins,'03 Cummins; '05 Hemi 2017 Jayco 28RLS TT 32.5'. Reese HP Trunnion 800 Reply to Topic  |  Subscribe  |  Print Topic  |  Post New Topic  |  Oldest first Newest first  Page of 2   Next Open Roads Forum  >  Towing  > Tow vehicle miss match

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