need advice please.. we just bought a ford E450 class c odyssey that can tow 7,500 lbs. so we got a 24 ft car hauler and we are towing a smart car, and two utv"s. total weight is 5,500 so we are still under weight as far as towing. so my question is do we still need a weight distribution kit..any advice sure would be appreciated..NOTE: Did you see the "Announcement : &bigstar;&bigstar;READ BEFORE POSTING HERE&bigstar;&bigstar;" located at the top of this forum? "Forum Posting Help and Support is reserved for questions on how to post in the forums, signature and photo testing, reporting website or member account issues. Please avoid using Forum Posting Help and Support for RV related questions, as doing so can delay responses to your thread. Instead, create future threads in the RV FORUM which corresponds to the subject of your topic. Thank-you!"

Do you need to push some weight back to the trailer tires and front to the steering wheels for better braking? Is your trailer tongue weight below the MH’s max hitch weight? Is your coach level? Did you measure it?

well, I guess the obvious place to start would be to look at the sticker on your trailer hitch receiver on the back of the motorhome. What does it say regarding tongue weight limits and weight distribution?after that, what is your tongue weight?Now you'll have the info you need.From here on I'm just guessing, but usually anything over 500 pounds tongue weight needs a weight distribution hitch. And a 5500 pound trailer 'should' have a tongue weight of around 660 pounds. Maybe more, hopefully not much less. So my guess is yes, you need a weight distributing hitch.

it has a 7,500-pound hitch with a 750-lb tongue capacity. I will have to look tomorrow when its light outside to see what the car hauler tongue weight is. I know the car hauler itself weighs aprox 2,000 lbs and will carry 7,000 lbs.

750 pound limit with or without a WDH? My Tahoe is 600 without and 1000 with but that also takes 600 to 1000 of payload plus the weight of the hitch. What’s the MH’s payload?

snow0700 wrote:it has a 7,500-pound hitch with a 750-lb tongue capacity. I will have to look tomorrow when its light outside to see what the car hauler tongue weight is. I know the car hauler itself weighs aprox 2,000 lbs and will carry 7,000 lbs. just took a flashlight out, loks like the utilty trailer weights 2,200 lbs. but it does not state the tongue weight..

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snow0700

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Jan 04, 2019

weight distribution kit

need advice please.. we just bought a ford E450 class c odyssey that can tow 7,500 lbs. so we got a 24 ft car hauler and we are towing a smart car, and two utv"s. total weight is 5,500 so we are still under weight as far as towing. so my question is do we still need a weight distribution kit..any advice sure would be appreciated..

NOTE: Did you see the "Announcement : &bigstar;&bigstar;READ BEFORE POSTING HERE&bigstar;&bigstar;" located at the top of this forum?

"Forum Posting Help and Support

is reserved for questions on how to post in the forums, signature and photo testing, reporting website or member account issues. Please avoid using Forum Posting Help and Support for RV related questions, as doing so can delay responses to your thread. Instead, create future threads in the RV FORUM which corresponds to the subject of your topic.

snow0700
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Jan 05, 2019
it has a 7,500-pound hitch with a 750-lb tongue capacity. I will have to look tomorrow when its light outside to see what the car hauler tongue weight is. I know the car hauler itself weighs aprox 2,000 lbs and will carry 7,000 lbs.
camperdave
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Jan 04, 2019
well, I guess the obvious place to start would be to look at the sticker on your trailer hitch receiver on the back of the motorhome. What does it say regarding tongue weight limits and weight distribution?

after that, what is your tongue weight?

Now you'll have the info you need.

From here on I'm just guessing, but usually anything over 500 pounds tongue weight needs a weight distribution hitch. And a 5500 pound trailer 'should' have a tongue weight of around 660 pounds. Maybe more, hopefully not much less. So my guess is yes, you need a weight distributing hitch.
Lwiddis
Explorer II
Jan 04, 2019
Do you need to push some weight back to the trailer tires and front to the steering wheels for better braking? Is your trailer tongue weight below the MH’s max hitch weight? Is your coach level? Did you measure it?

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