Unified Tow Brake - Review
I want to review US Gear's Unified Tow Brake(UTB)because it gets badmouthed for being "complicated" and causing problems, often by folks that don't have one, and never have... one fellow on here adama...
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Agree 100% with the review. I've pulled a UTB equipped Honda Fit for about 18,000 miles. For me, there are only 2 "cons":
1) It was very difficult to "fit" it into the Fit, which has very little hidden space available. This is of course a non-issue for some other cars.
2) I'm scared by the prices I've seen posted for replacement parts.
Now that it's installed and nothing has broken yet, I can't think of a better setup. The steps to get it ready to go are: Plug in the umbilical cable and drive away. There's positive feedback that it's operational, and if I ever question that, just pushing the manual operation lever verifies that it's working. When starting out every morning I do a test while creeping a few mph. It's nice to know that it's really working.
1) It was very difficult to "fit" it into the Fit, which has very little hidden space available. This is of course a non-issue for some other cars.
2) I'm scared by the prices I've seen posted for replacement parts.
Now that it's installed and nothing has broken yet, I can't think of a better setup. The steps to get it ready to go are: Plug in the umbilical cable and drive away. There's positive feedback that it's operational, and if I ever question that, just pushing the manual operation lever verifies that it's working. When starting out every morning I do a test while creeping a few mph. It's nice to know that it's really working.
