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Julian Voelcker wrote:
Reading this, and the various threads about adding fitted kit to the boot, I feel I should describe my experience of last week.
I had to travel to Yorkshire to clear out my father's house, and I rented a 10'x6'x6' trailer to help to carry the stuff. On the way back the trailer was laden, but in a well balanced way. However I had a lot of heavy stuff in the back of the truck, mostly boxes of books, and the headlight adjuster had to go down two clicks, which gives a measure of the load on the rear axle.
At anything above 50mph the trailer was completely uncontrollable - something I've never experienced before when towing the horses. Those who have teased me (nicely) before about our equine activities will know that I'm pretty experienced at hauling heavy loads, and 3 nags + trailer are easily twice the weight of what I was pulling then.
So the moral is, I believe, that if you are going to add significant permanent weight at the rear you really must think about upgrading the springs, otherwise you may have stability problems when subsequently towing - or possibly even solo at high speed.
Probably pretty obvious to all you experts, but it came as an unpleasant shock to me - and Yorkshire is an awful long ride from Devon at 50mph!
Christopher Bell
Devon, UK
1996 1HD-FT
Reading this, and the various threads about adding fitted kit to the boot, I feel I should describe my experience of last week.
I had to travel to Yorkshire to clear out my father's house, and I rented a 10'x6'x6' trailer to help to carry the stuff. On the way back the trailer was laden, but in a well balanced way. However I had a lot of heavy stuff in the back of the truck, mostly boxes of books, and the headlight adjuster had to go down two clicks, which gives a measure of the load on the rear axle.
At anything above 50mph the trailer was completely uncontrollable - something I've never experienced before when towing the horses. Those who have teased me (nicely) before about our equine activities will know that I'm pretty experienced at hauling heavy loads, and 3 nags + trailer are easily twice the weight of what I was pulling then.
So the moral is, I believe, that if you are going to add significant permanent weight at the rear you really must think about upgrading the springs, otherwise you may have stability problems when subsequently towing - or possibly even solo at high speed.
Probably pretty obvious to all you experts, but it came as an unpleasant shock to me - and Yorkshire is an awful long ride from Devon at 50mph!
Christopher Bell
Devon, UK
1996 1HD-FT