X-Chock Instructions
I don't want to start a whole debate about X-chocks. Got into a discussion about them on another forum. I distinctly remember when I bought mine, there was a slip of paper in the box that specifical...
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Walaby wrote:
Thanks Soundguy. I coulda swore it specifically said not to be used as wheel chocks, but it is pretty much the same thing, and probably how I interpreted it.
Norco markets the X-Chock all over the world, not just in the US and Canada, and has used the term "parking brake" instead of "chock" in this note I illustrated which has been included in every box of X-Chocks ever sold. Seemingly, some choose to ignore this warning anyway, perhaps because they don't understand that "parking brake" and "chock" mean the same thing ... or perhaps because they think they know better than the manufacturer. :R Old-Biscuit's claim notwithstanding the fact is that tires shrink noticeably as they cool so any X-Chock installed even as much as an hour of arriving on-site will loosen to the point where they have no grip on the tires at all :E ... ergo the need for some additional method of actually chocking the trailer so it can't roll away.
