Downside to tongue weight over 15%?
Tongue weight should be between 10 & 15%. It usually is. There is a potential serious safety issue if it's below 10% and that's well documented everywhere. But what is the downside of being over 15...
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Another related question I might add to this is you often hear people saying that you can load your TT differently to move weight forward or rearward to change the tongue weight. That may be good in theory but in reality I don't see how it be be feasible.
If you have a front bedroom, you load your clothes and bedding up front. You load your food, dishes and kitchen stuff in the rear if it's a rear kitchen or over the axles if that's where the kitchen is. Then all the other misc. stuff like books, DVDs, etc. goes wherever the cabinets and storage spaces are that came with the unit. If you have pass-through storage up front, which is the norm, you put your BBQ, outdoor mat, chocks, sewer stuff and all the other outside stuff there. I can't see putting all the pass-through stuff inside at the rear or loading all the stuff in your kitchen up front in the bedroom. And then relocate it all again when you get to your destination. Seems like the tongue weight pretty much ends being whatever it ends up being.
Our fresh water tank is just aft of the A-frame. With a full tank, that'd be over 300 lbs up front. Add a 2nd battery and I don't know where our tongue weight would end up at. 16%? 17%?
Maybe there just aren't any safety or handling issues with being over 15% other than making sure you don't overload your TV and ensure your WDH can handle the extra weight?
Everyone out there says your tongue weight should be between 10% and 15%, but exactly why the 15%?
If you have a front bedroom, you load your clothes and bedding up front. You load your food, dishes and kitchen stuff in the rear if it's a rear kitchen or over the axles if that's where the kitchen is. Then all the other misc. stuff like books, DVDs, etc. goes wherever the cabinets and storage spaces are that came with the unit. If you have pass-through storage up front, which is the norm, you put your BBQ, outdoor mat, chocks, sewer stuff and all the other outside stuff there. I can't see putting all the pass-through stuff inside at the rear or loading all the stuff in your kitchen up front in the bedroom. And then relocate it all again when you get to your destination. Seems like the tongue weight pretty much ends being whatever it ends up being.
Our fresh water tank is just aft of the A-frame. With a full tank, that'd be over 300 lbs up front. Add a 2nd battery and I don't know where our tongue weight would end up at. 16%? 17%?
Maybe there just aren't any safety or handling issues with being over 15% other than making sure you don't overload your TV and ensure your WDH can handle the extra weight?
Everyone out there says your tongue weight should be between 10% and 15%, but exactly why the 15%?
