Anti sway question.
If a truck has built in sway control, (2022 Ford Ranger) is anything else necessary regarding a hitch setup? If you're within the guidelines of the manufacturer re: tongue weight. What else needs to...
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Grit dog wrote:Sjm9911 wrote:
Im for a wdh with sway controll also. Even if you dont have sway, you never know when something out of the ordinary can happen and it saves you.
..No matter how many "professional" RVers claim that belt, suspenders, elastic waist band and 2 hands firmly grasping your belt loops is required to safely tow a trailer, it’s not magical or mysterious. And if you’re in that OH SHT swerve to save your life, if you swerve hard enough to get the trailer to break loose, a wdh isn’t going to tip the odds your way very much.
Again, sway control is for people who are uncomfortable with how a “normal” trailer feels or who have an ill mannered trailer. And a wdh is for if you don’t have enough suspension, or hitch capacity to do the job without a suspension aide.
To a point. It atucally saved my ass when a consteution barrel was shot out at me on the delaware memorial bridge. If it wasnt for the sway controll, i would have been out a TV and TT. My truck is overkill for what I need, but the sway controll arms kept me from a crash. Running over a barrel at 55 , in between 18 wheelers , and then needeing to slow and swerve to recover wasnt fun. While this is the worst case senerio, it does happen. Barrel, also took out the TT brake lines and ripped off the dimond plate on the front of the TT before the TT tires went over it on the drivers side. So, brakes we no help here.
