Do I Really Need A Brake Buddy

Correct settings are important. Even more important is to assure that you exercise your brakes per the brake buddy instructions after anytime you run your car or in anyway energize your car's brake power assist system. If you don't, you are almost guaranteed to lock you brakes up on your first braking attempt, and possibly subsequent ones as well.

Retired VSP wrote:
Thanks everyone for your input. This is very good information and thought provoking advise. I had been told some time ago from a service technician at an RV garage that I really didn't need an auxiliary brake for my car. I'm going to continue to use my brake buddy. I have had issues in the past locking the brakes when I did hard braking but probably didn't have the correct setting. Ended up with flat sided tires.

Do you have a Brake Buddy alert?

Good Choice!

Thanks everyone for your input. This is very good information and thought provoking advise. I had been told some time ago from a service technician at an RV garage that I really didn't need an auxiliary brake for my car. I'm going to continue to use my brake buddy. I have had issues in the past locking the brakes when I did hard braking but probably didn't have the correct setting. Ended up with flat sided tires.

My 16 year old Brake Buddy is a peice of cake to hook up has and is working flawlessly and can move from towed to towed in two minutes.

The OP can't even claim poverty, he's already got the brake.

And evidently a PITA, otherwise he wouldn't have bothered posting and just went with it.
Again, with the READYBRAKE, you only install it once and after that, it's just one more little cable to latch on, when hooking up.

wrestling with being able to stop reasonably, jplante?

Retired VSP wrote:
I tow a 2006 Honda Accord....been using a brake buddy but since it's not a heavy vehicle I don't want to use the brake buddy. Most of my travel is level with some slight hills. Used to do the 11,000 foot mountains but not now. Any thoughts on this. Thanks.

Not necessarily a brake buddy, but you should have something and even if it only gives you an extra foot of stopping power, which might be all it takes.
My preference is the READYBRAKE and most hands free, maintenance free, best bang for the buck, on the market, IMO.

This thread is on the same arc as every other iteration. Wannabe lawyers arguing the laws or lack thereof.

Physics does not care if the thousands of pounds in tow was designed as a passenger car or a cargo trailer. Your coach can't tell the difference between a U-haul and a Civic. You're just advocating careless behavior, prioritizing money over safety.

The OP can't even claim poverty, he's already got the brake.

Here is definition of a "trailer" in Washington.
RCW 46.04.620
Trailer.
"Trailer" includes every vehicle without motive power designed for being drawn by or used in conjunction with a motor vehicle constructed so that no appreciable part of its weight rests upon or is carried by such motor vehicle, but does not include a municipal transit vehicle, or any portion thereof. "Trailer" does not include a cargo extension.