Overweight Toad?

Daveinet wrote:

Effy wrote:
Really? Now we have to cite documented cases where an overweight toad contributed to an accident to justify why you shouldn't do it after knowingly being over the parameters? and BTW - I am sure there are countless accidents caused by inability to avoid or stop in time due to an overweight tow vehicle. I am sure there are hitch failures. Why would you knowingly do it? It makes little sense. I don't get it, I try and do thing sthe right way not look for "wiggle room". If something happens, you are negligable and at fault. Plain and simple. I don't like to take long trips with my fingers crossed. I'd rather know I am doing things the right way and staying with the parameters for which they are designed - and rated. The numbers are not made up, nor are they arbiitrary. OP - do what you want. I am not sure why you even posed the question. You know you are over and ask if it's ok anyway. It's not. Mistakes are one thing, knowingly doing the wrong things and putting others at risk for your convenience is really dumb and inconsiderate.

Yes, Really. So you answer this question, which puts more stress on the frame, towing at 3500 lbs for 200,000 miles, or towing at 4200 lbs for 1500 miles?

The answer apparently is that as soon as you pull out of the driveway a couple hundred lbs over the hitch rating, you have instant and massive failure of everything. It doesn't even matter if the poor guy has a re-enforced frame or not.