towing near max weight. advice?
Hello all! I am new to the forums and was hoping for some much needed advice. My wife and I have been shopping for a new TT for almost 6 months and have finally fallen in love with one. We are get...
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ah64id wrote:
Speaking of reading, might reread your owners manual.... Page 394, it was easy for me to find with your vehicle specs, you where just page off.
Should is not a requirement.
C'mon, now you're just nick pickin. Who cares if it's a recommendation, an advisory, a requirement, or a harbinger. If Chrysler/Dodge felt the need to put that message in there at only 1000lbs, that leads me to believe their engineers did not believe the truck could adequately stop a trailer in that weight range, without brakes. If you can find documentation from a manufacturer that says their 1/2 ton brakes are designed to stop an additional 2000lbs trailer at GVWR, then I'm all ears. I'll gladly eat crow. Stopping meaning that it would pass still pass FMVSS. Even in the factory service manuals there's no mention of this. Every manufacturer designs each component/unit in their vehicle with some reserve capacity. They'd be fools not to. But who knows where that failure point actually is and good luck trying to get a manufacturer to disclose that failure point. But applying a blanket 2000lbs or additional capacity across the board based off of theory is just silly. Read FMVSS 105 and 135 in its entirety. These are real standards at which brakes get their certification. You will not find any testing beyond GVWR. No it doesn't specify the max capacity, but it's the only documented validation that exists.
Don't expect anymore replies from me. You've heard the same thing from other users and someone even reports info straight from a brake engineer. Do whatever you want with the info. Have a great day!
