Some of y'all are scarin' me!

TucsonJim wrote:
While at the Good Sam rally in Phoenix last month, a camper was parked next to us. She had an 18ft TT, and was pulling it with an SUV. While there, she purchased a new 22' TT from one of the vendors, but was upset that they were charging her for a "Brake Thingy". I asked her to explain and she showed me the sales contract which had a brake controller listed.

I told her it was probably just a mistake and to show me her current controller and I'd see if it would work on her new trailer. She didn't know what a brake controller was, and didn't know where it was located in her SUV. So I took a look and there was NO controller in her TV. She said she didn't need one because she had a plug on the back of the SUV that she plugged the trailer into and it should connect the brakes.

So I tried to spend the next half hour explaining how it all worked and her final comment was "I should be just fine without it". Hopefully, that dealer won't let her leave without following through and safely equipping her SUV.

Yikes!
:E

Jim

I didn't read all 6 pages of this thread. No one I know uses a brake controller when pulling their TT. But, they all have small TT's and pull with pickups. They also don't go very far.

I have a Prodigy 3 for my pickup and TT. The brakes on my TT don't work well. But, they do work.

She was fine with her original setup but, she should have trailer brakes now.

You should see the farmers towing big wagons to town behind their pickups. (Not so much anymore though) But, Huge, Huge, wagons to town behind their not so big tractors with only surge brakes on the wagons. Modern tractors go close to 30 mph but, wagon tires are only rated for 20.