Frontal area for travel trailers
I have a 2016 Nissan Frontier 4 cyl 2WD and want to tow a Jayco that weighs 2300 # with a frontal area of 63 square ft. Any ideas about the feasibility of this? The owner's manual states a limit of 30...
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Maybe this will help understand this laws of physics...
Take a 4'x3'x3/8" thick plywood (32 sq/ft) and hold it 90* to the wind of, say 10 MPH
Betcha you won't be able to hold it without being pushed around...heck even knocked down
Then do that in a 25 MPH wind and if we tied a rope to the plywood center...we could fly you like t kite...of course given that you do not weigh in at 400 lbs...
Now transfer that thought to your TV pulling a trailer with double that frontal area at 60 MPH...
Take a 4'x3'x3/8" thick plywood (32 sq/ft) and hold it 90* to the wind of, say 10 MPH
Betcha you won't be able to hold it without being pushed around...heck even knocked down
Then do that in a 25 MPH wind and if we tied a rope to the plywood center...we could fly you like t kite...of course given that you do not weigh in at 400 lbs...
Now transfer that thought to your TV pulling a trailer with double that frontal area at 60 MPH...
