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I do that on a regular basis
Posted by Stephen Goldberger [Email] (more from Stephen Goldberger) on Sat, 6 Dec 2008 07:17:25
In Reply to: Towing question, Dan-O, Fri, 5 Dec 2008 11:04:56
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Using a towing dolly with brakes.
Note: your car's official towing rating is 1000lb for a trailer without brakes, 3500 with brakes. In England (and I assume the rest of Europe) the rating with a braked trailer is 1800 kg (close to two tons).
When you use a dolly with electric brakes (as I do) you use a brake controller - the one I have has a thumbwheel for regulating the braking pressure. You might (and I do) turn the braking way down in traffic, b/c the trailer brakes are "on" or "off", and it's not real smooth driving when the brakes are "turned up." But on the expressway, you want to turn the braking level up to just short of wheel-lockup. I go into such detail to say that sometimes I forget to turn up the brake setting, so I can tell you from experience that stopping 4 tons of combined load with 2 tons worth of brakes is very much an exciting experience. I don't recommend it.
That said, I once borrowed a neighbor's Oldsmobile (it was a late'80s or early '90s full-size, with a trailer hitch) and dragged a C900 from outside Washington DC to Canton, Ohio, using a (heavy) U-haul dolly, and had a "great landing". (A good landing is one you walk away from, a great landing, you get to use the plane again afterward)
If it were me, I'd just rent a towing dolly and be very, very careful for all 80 miles. Drive just like you were driving the 9000 by itself - like there's no brakes. And maybe you will be very lucky and the dolly will have working "surge brakes". (Surge brakes work with a two-piece trailer attaching part connected by a brake master cylinder. As you try to slow down, the trailer presses against the brake master, which brakes the trailer wheels.)
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Posts in this Thread:
- Towing question, Dan-O, Fri, 5 Dec 2008 11:04:56
- Thanks for the feedback - got a solution, Dan-O, Sat, 6 Dec 2008 17:15:20
- I do that on a regular basis, Stephen Goldberger, Sat, 6 Dec 2008 07:17:25 <-- Viewing This Message
- braking is by far the concern., rsfeller, Fri, 5 Dec 2008 22:02:45
- Re: Towing question, Kevin Rhodes, Fri, 5 Dec 2008 21:23:44
- Re: Towing question, sonett43, Fri, 5 Dec 2008 12:09:39
- Re: Towing question, LesH, Fri, 5 Dec 2008 11:19:21
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