Towing question
I know this should be in the dingy section but there doesn't seem to be as much activity there as here, so if the moderators would be so kind as to let it stay here in the class C section I would appr...
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I finally got my car and it now is set up to tow.
I did measure the distance from the ground to the center of my receiver with it on level ground and it is 24" to the center of the receiver.
Now that I'm set up and had a chance to measure it out with the car there is no worry. The car sits higher than most so it all worked out ok. I only have 1 1/2" difference between the receiver height and the height of the tow bar at the car. So all good to go.
Here is a picture of the rigs hitched up in front of my house when I returned from getting the car all set up.
A you can see I'm on a pretty level street and the hitch up looks pretty good to me and it tows pretty darn good also. I won't say I don't know it is not there because that would be telling a story. I find even when I had my 2013 Ram dually diesel and pulled my enclosed trailer that ways around 2400# I still knew it was there.
I ran home with it at 60MPH + and it never seemed to bother the rig on the freeway. When I entered the freeway I never had any problem getting up to speed to merge in fact it did better than most people around here do. I had a hill to pull on the way home nothing really steep but still a little pull and had no problem maintaining 60 MPH+ on it without shifting down at all. I am still pretty impressed with this Sprinter chassis and the way it runs.
I did measure the distance from the ground to the center of my receiver with it on level ground and it is 24" to the center of the receiver.
Now that I'm set up and had a chance to measure it out with the car there is no worry. The car sits higher than most so it all worked out ok. I only have 1 1/2" difference between the receiver height and the height of the tow bar at the car. So all good to go.
Here is a picture of the rigs hitched up in front of my house when I returned from getting the car all set up.
A you can see I'm on a pretty level street and the hitch up looks pretty good to me and it tows pretty darn good also. I won't say I don't know it is not there because that would be telling a story. I find even when I had my 2013 Ram dually diesel and pulled my enclosed trailer that ways around 2400# I still knew it was there.
I ran home with it at 60MPH + and it never seemed to bother the rig on the freeway. When I entered the freeway I never had any problem getting up to speed to merge in fact it did better than most people around here do. I had a hill to pull on the way home nothing really steep but still a little pull and had no problem maintaining 60 MPH+ on it without shifting down at all. I am still pretty impressed with this Sprinter chassis and the way it runs.
