We have a Holiday Rambler Admiral class A on a Ford chassis that has a fiberglass rear cap. I'm looking at mounting the Protect-A-Tow to the back of the motorhome, but was concerned about installing the eyebolts only through the fiberglass cap. There is no structural surface to use other than the "lip" of the rear cap that curles underneath creating about a 1" horizontal surface with which to mount the eyebolts. Protect-a-Tow includes two large washers with each bolt that I believe is for this specific purpose.
I'm looking for opinions on the integrity of this installation or alternatives.
The bungee cord on the Protect-A-Tow gets pretty tight at times. Can you run something from the eye bolts forward to take some of the pulling strain. A piece of small chain or cable on each eye bolt to something solid?
I used ours for a while and have gotten lazy and don't use it any more. The Samurai sets high enough it doesn't seem to get any rock chips and the Protect-A-Tow doesn't reduce the dirt accumulation so ours is in the garage. I would always get dirty taking it off and putting it on.
Jim
Jim, Sharon and Buddy the Yorkie
1999 Gulfstream Sun Voyager 31' ISB Cummins 210 uprated to 275
275 RV injectors
Trippe-Lite 1800w inverter 4-6v GC batteries
3- Kyocera 130w solar panels
1987 Suzuki Samurai tintop Toad w/VW 1.6 turbo diesel power
We've used ours for a year with no problems. Same fiberglass lip. I had to mount the toad's eye-bolts further back on car so I used two bungee cord as extenders.I get a lot of stretch that way going around corners.
Ron
2002 Kountry Star
2007 Honda CRV
Used Brake Buddy
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