mgirardo wrote:
We had an almost out of control sway issue once. Our salesman suggested we did not need a weight distribution hitch after seeing our Hybrid TT hitched to our tow vehicle. Unfortunately he was wrong, but he did provide one bit of advice that saved our brand new trailer. He said, if you feel the trailer start to sway, give it some gas until it straightens out. He said your first instinct is to hit the brakes, but that's the wrong thing to do.
When our trailer started swaying enough that it was moving the tow vehicle and trailer across lanes, I stomped on the gas. Before hitting the gas, I was going about 60 mph. I accelerated to about 80 mph before the sway got under control and the trailer straightened out.
Using the manual slide on the trailer brake controller would have helped, but I just wasn't experienced enough to try to control the tow vehicle and use the brake controller at the same time.
-Michael
I'm very scared of the advise to stomp on the gas. If the sway is induced by speed because of a poorly loaded trailer more speed isn't going to solve the problem - instead it will result in a catastrophic accident. IMHO You were very lucky that speeding up to 80 cured your problem instead of the opposite.
