First 5th Wheel--Bad Braking???
Hi, I just got my first 5th wheel and am a bit concerned about the braking. It weighs 12,500 pounds and has a 2500 pound pin weight. I am pulling it with my Ram 3500 which has a 4,200 pound max pay...
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bowler1 wrote:
... maybe the trailer brakes will get better as I break them in (user manual said it takes about 1000 miles to do this)...
^ This could be your problem.
When I purchased our new 5th Wheel, hooked it up on the dealer lot, pulled forward and tested the trailer brakes they did absolutely nothing. I refused to take delivery until the brakes were repaired.
After several days of back and forth with the dealer they managed to convince me the brakes weren't defective, they just needed to be broken in. They pulled a drum and found nothing wrong. According to them, the guy transporting the trailer from the factory had a faulty brake controller and the trailer brakes had never been used. They insisted the brakes would gradually improve over the first several hundred miles of use.
Turns out they were correct. By the time I got home with the trailer (50 miles) I could tell the brakes were getting better. After a few hundred miles of use they work great.
