Best method for towing a car
Hi everyone! We are new members. We were fortunate to find a very slightly used 32' Tiffin Allegro Open Road, with a Ford V10 engine. We have also purchased a car to tow. It is a Honda CRV with front ...
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Reddog1 wrote:PapPappy wrote:How can flat towing cost more than the less expensive dollies?
... It will cost a bit more than some of the less expensive dollies. ...
LOL, easily, especially if you have to have someone else do the installation work.
You have to install base plates on the toad, thats around $400 assuming you install yourself (closer to $800 if you have someone install it). Then, you have tail light wiring for the toad. Unless you do that yourself, too, thats another $100-200.
Add on another $800 or so for the tow bar to that, and you're getting close to 2,000 (unless you do all the work yourself). And, we haven't even begun talking about a supplemental brake system. Those go anywhere from $300 for a Readybrake surge system, to $1500 for the electronic systems. And many of them require installation as well, adding a few hundred more to the equation unless you do it yourself.
Soooo, if you don't do the work yourself, it is VERY easy to sink 3-4k into setting up a toad for flat towing. Which would indeed be way more $$ than some of the less expensive dollies.
Will
