Holding tongue weight steady
I am looking at buying a twin axle TT and all the weights are ok, except the tongue weight is close to the max for my Pathfinder. The stated tongue weight is 479# and my max is 500#. I know that addin...
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horton333 wrote:drsteve wrote:
Well I'm glad somebody knows more than those silly engineers who designed this thing... and it's good that the people you read about on the internet are exceeding the tow ratings without ever having a single problem. I'm sure they too are much smarter than those engineers.
As my post alluded, and is well established, it's not engineers who set the tow ratings on cars and SUV class vehicles, marketing does. They also have to assume a worst case setup, the real world can do much better. The SAE standards coming in will not change that BTW, they only set the maximum that can advertised and they do not prevent marketing from reducing the numbers.
You are trying to give false authority to your opinion by invoking engineering specification into this.
Actually it is less marketing and more engineers, warranty and lawyers. The engineers tell what the vehicle is capable of, and the lawyers decide what will prevent law suits. what we get is a combination of the three. so really what is published are capacities that tell you what the vehicle will do with out causing damage to it, and with out making the manufacturer liable for injuries.
