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WNJeffers
Jul 14, 2018Explorer
Ease of towing will be a little dependent on your towed vehicle and choice of tow equipment. We tow a 2015 Malibu with the ReadyBrute Elite tow system. It takes no more than 5 minutes to hook up 2 tow bars, 2 brake cables, and 2 safety cables, put the magnetic wireless light bar on the trunk lid, put the car’s automatic transmission in neutral, ignition in accessory position, and pull 3 fuses.
Some cars need to have the engine idled every so many hours or miles to keep the automatic transmission lubed. Some towing/braking systems have other steps in hookup.
I have never given a thought to hitting something with the car going around a corner. First, the coach is 8.5-feet wide and the car several feet narrower. Second, the point at which the tow bars connect to the rear of the coach swings wide when going around a corner, so it automatically leads the car on a wider arc around the corner. I keep an eye on the rear camera to occasionally verify that the towed is still back there, as I cannot tell from its effect on driving the coach.
I towed the Malibu on our first trip from WV to south FL without unhitching due to reserving pull-thru sites along the way. Hitching/unhitching is so quick and easy that I have not given thought to keeping it hitched since.
Wayne
Some cars need to have the engine idled every so many hours or miles to keep the automatic transmission lubed. Some towing/braking systems have other steps in hookup.
I have never given a thought to hitting something with the car going around a corner. First, the coach is 8.5-feet wide and the car several feet narrower. Second, the point at which the tow bars connect to the rear of the coach swings wide when going around a corner, so it automatically leads the car on a wider arc around the corner. I keep an eye on the rear camera to occasionally verify that the towed is still back there, as I cannot tell from its effect on driving the coach.
I towed the Malibu on our first trip from WV to south FL without unhitching due to reserving pull-thru sites along the way. Hitching/unhitching is so quick and easy that I have not given thought to keeping it hitched since.
Wayne
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