Tow Dolly VS flat tow
I have a 2013 Toyota RAV4 FWD that I believe can be towed with the use of a tow dolly. The RAV ("for us") is just an ok car, it doesn't live up to expectations, but that is another topic. Is it bett...
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robatthelake wrote:
I have also observed that finding a place to Store a Tow Dolly and the effort involved attaching the Towed vehicle onto those things appears to me to be just as difficult as installing and connecting any Tow Bar!
Never had a problem storing mine even in the most cramped of NPS campgrounds at Yellowstone, GC, Tetons, Zion, a KOA or three, or countless state parks. If we can land a 50 foot pull-thru, we don't even need to disconnect. On a 35 foot back-in site, you wouldn't even know the dolly was behind the motorhome unless you looked.
My wife can drive up the dolly ramps and secure the wheels just as well as I can, and has done so on trips she took without me.
Somehow, I can't imagine her trying to remove the front end of the Jeep to install a baseplate...
robatthelake wrote:
Now I am reading that they are only reliable for a couple of years !
Huh. My dolly is seven years old, and showing no signs of unreliability aside maybe from a set of tires now and then.
