Tongue Weight Rating
Hello, We are buying a trailer for our daughter and son-in-law. They now have a Ford Expedition with 8,900# tow rating. 80% of that is 7,120#, but they should stay below 7,000# loaded (5,500 to 6...
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Seattle Lion wrote:
You remind me of something that has been bothering me for a while: what people did here (and still do in Europe) when light trucks were not commonly owned. There is a 1954 movie, The Long Long Trailer starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz about a couple who buy a TT (40 ft they said) and took it on tour. The interiors were obviously taken in a studio, but they had a real trailer for the exterior shots. The TV was a car! In the movie, a dealer sold Desi a dolly that went under the trailer's ball that apparently took the weight off the TV, which clearly had no chance of carrying the trailer.
I suspect that in Europe by providing virtually no tongue weight, they make it possible to tow some sort of RV with those tiny cars. I guess in that case, all the owner has to worry about is the actual ability of the TV to pull the trailer. Ya gotta wonder about stability. Based on watching Top Gear on BBC America, Caravans (as they call TT's there) are very small and TV's move very slowly. I can't begin to imagine how the TV has any serious control of the TT.
You got a few things wrong
No they do not move that slowly. Europe in general 60mph is the limited speed. Now in the UK this has gone up too 82mph. On unlimited roads like an autobahn ANY speed can be done.
Stability control systems limit sway on the Caravans.
Top Gear is satirising the conjested roads in the European summers when thousands of holidaymakers are on the road and the speed limit is 60mph on freeways.
Diesel Cars are used by about 95% of Holidaymakers the Caravans are very.light coming in at about 4000lbs GVWR
