New to Dingy Towing - Need help?
We recently traded our Dually and 5th Wheel for a 32' Class C Mini-Motorhome. Of course now we are faced with towing a "toad" and do we go 4 down or dolly? When I try to analyze which is best they co...
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Yes self install can be done on most, but if you do want to tow 4 down and install yourself, look at sites like roadmaster and I think blueox and see what it takes to install the components. I bought my stuff thru camp world and they installed for $29 at the time, they also installed the light kit. I could have gotten the baseplate and installed myself, but it would have take a couple of part time days to do. CW got it done in a day and half with the light kit install. I did not want to pull the front facia, the bumper support etc as required. The kit was about a $100-150 more from CW than off net but the install price required the parts to be bought at cw. Really a no brainer for me as the cheapest install at a another place was at $75/hr and the install called for about 3-4 hrs.
If you can do yourself than craigs list is one way to go for the tow bar, base plates can be found but will depend on your towd veh as to being the required parts. I wanted CW to install the brake system that the guy we bought the rv from passed on. They claimed they were not familiar with the install so they wouldn't. I did it myself took about 2 hrs. permanent mount only requires turning/flipping switch from off to on. Worked well for us. Most require putting the brake system in each time to be towed and or blocking something in the driver side, removing prior to driving. Ours is virtually invisible and as I said only need to have a switch flipped to on/off as needed. It by SMI and there are youtube videos on stalls and use.
If you can do yourself than craigs list is one way to go for the tow bar, base plates can be found but will depend on your towd veh as to being the required parts. I wanted CW to install the brake system that the guy we bought the rv from passed on. They claimed they were not familiar with the install so they wouldn't. I did it myself took about 2 hrs. permanent mount only requires turning/flipping switch from off to on. Worked well for us. Most require putting the brake system in each time to be towed and or blocking something in the driver side, removing prior to driving. Ours is virtually invisible and as I said only need to have a switch flipped to on/off as needed. It by SMI and there are youtube videos on stalls and use.
