Dinghy Towing Help – 2011 Honda CRV
Hello all! The wife and I are getting set up for full-time RV life starting this month. I would love to tap into the wisdom of you seasoned RV’ers to confirm that our current set up is not missing...
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SnugBugs wrote:
Willald, I was sold on the Readybrute setup you have, up until I became concerned with the invasive install (or so it seemed). If you would, can you explain what is involved in the installation? That would help a lot, as I prefer both the price and simplicity of the Readybrake set up...
Randy/Sarah,
The installation essentially involves running a physical cable from your brake pedal, through the firewall and out to the front of your vehicle. Thats pretty much it. I consider it a 'non-intrusive' install in that you are not tapping into any of your vehicle's systems (electric, etc). Its just a physical linkage cable from brake pedal out to front bumper.
If you use any kind of break-away system (which you really, really should), you're going to have to run some kind of cable or wire like this (front bumper to brake pedal), regardless which system it is.
On some vehicles, the Readybrake cable installation is very simple and can be done yourself fairly easily. On other vehicles that have a lot of 'stuff' under the hood you have to work around, it can get a little more tricky.
Our last vehicle, a Kia minivan, this installation was done in about an hour by our mechanic. Wasn't too bad. However, on our present vehicle, a Ford Fusion hybrid, it was a bit more difficult due to how crowded it is under the hood with these hybrids. Took the mechanic several hours to do it.
I don't know how simple it may or may not be for your specific vehicle, a Honda CRV. However, there are a LOT of folks on here towing CRVs, and several (like the previous poster) that use Readybrake with them and are very happy with it. Perhaps one of them can give you some specific information, about how it is to install the Readybrake cable on a CRV?
You might try doing a search in this Forum for 'Readybrake' and/or 'Honda CRV'. I do know there's been a few threads over the years talking about specifics of installing Readybrake on CRVs. There's also a recent thread on here showing really good pictures of the installation on a Ford Focus, that might give you an idea as well..
Will
