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Campfire_Time
Oct 21, 2016Explorer
horton333 wrote:
Towing videos
Above are some videos, and real world measurement testing. While for some reason a lot of videos are not there right now the measured results put trucks last in testing for slalom ability. This directly translates to stability when towing.
Andy spends a lot of time and does some clever things to get this performance, most dealers don't have the interest nor technical ability.
This is only one measure, but given most people not familiar with the physics tend to think of stability as one of the disadvantages I post FYI.
Two things. One, dealers, especially in the US won't put themselves in the position of being held civilly liable should something go wrong or the vehicle experience a premature failure. And yes most dealers do have the technical expertise to do this kind of work. They choose not to. In Canada civil liability is not nearly as big of an issue. Very different mind-set here.
Second, I've seen the videos. Interesting exercises but not real world day to day towing. Those situations are actually very rare. Have you actually towed with a full size truck and a smaller vehicle and compared the two? I have. And yes, the smaller vehicles were set up correctly. I read and viewed everything Andy publishes. Everything was safe and they towed fine. But I can tell you that I'd much rather tow with a right sized tow vehicle. Night and day difference in towing ability and comfort.
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