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RE: Sway caused accident on I-75
There are videos of duallys rolling over with TT attached on youtube.
I can't stand these pontification threads......
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CKNSLS
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06/18/13 10:35pm |
Travel Trailers
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RE: Getting started....tow vehicle recommendations....PLEASE!
If you're really stuck on the SUV make sure it's a 1/2 or 3/4 ton based one. A unibody SUV will not tow anything but a small PU for the most part. I would go with a 1/2 ton crew cab with a tonneau cover or topper. No need for anything bigger for a 23 foot trailer.
Yep, he needs a 1/2 ton body on frame SUV or Crew Cab 1/2 ton. Assuming he's not buying a 23 foot tank-either one will do the job. Good thoughts on staying away from the unibody wannabes SUVs.
New 3/4 ton Suburbans are 50plus grand and clean used ones are as rare as dinosaurs.
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CKNSLS
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06/18/13 02:34pm |
Travel Trailers
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RE: Tire side wall cracks?
I did imply some Chinese tires MAY be suspect. But you as many others on this board believe all Chinese tires regardless of the AMERICAN COMPANY NAME on the sidewall are junk or well be junk.
There are somethings are this old boy forum that will never change...
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CKNSLS
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06/18/13 12:37pm |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Getting started....tow vehicle recommendations....PLEASE!
There are many ultra lights out there made for half tons. I understand your preferences. However chances are his 23 foot trailer will be no more than 60% of his towing capacity and well within his GVWR. He will have to go out of his way to find a heavy 23 foot trailer.
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CKNSLS
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06/18/13 12:30pm |
Travel Trailers
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RE: Getting started....tow vehicle recommendations....PLEASE!
How is f250 overkill... my trailer is 23' my last trip out when I hit scales tt had tongue weight of 1040 .. TT weighed 6620 its gvwr is 7500.. my truck plus tongue weight was 9620 only 280 pounds away from my f350 gvwr... and it was only a 3 day trip ... how would a half ton handle 2220 pounds of payload? Or more if I was headed out for a week?
Your trailer is an 04. They have come along way since then. I have a 2011 Eclipse Milan at 29 total feet 4,500 pounds dry.
Well within 1/2 ton territory-at 29 total feet.
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CKNSLS
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06/18/13 11:27am |
Travel Trailers
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RE: Tire side wall cracks?
Qutoe-
"Suspect Chinese made tires has some issue with their manufacturing
process. Am seeing so many separations from that country and must
say have from other country sourced too, but the lions share 'today'
are from China"
Correct. And just about 100% are Chinese branded tire (Because they have OEM and the largest market share). AND just about 99.5% are unsubstantiated claims since the tire was never sent in to be evaluated to the manufacturer or third party.
Most blow outs and tread separation are due to speeding, road hazards, and under inflation.
I have towed 6,500 miles in the past 7 months and have witnessed the "speeding situation" first hand.
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CKNSLS
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06/18/13 11:23am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Tire side wall cracks?
Oh good-eeee, Michelin is building a 1.5 Billion dollar factory in China.
High performance tires to be built in China.
High performance tires to be built in China??????? What the.....???? :h
That's like saying you have a great 5.7 diesel. :S
Or you have a super fast high performance Yugo. :R
There are already major companies whose names you would recognize that are building products in China for export. These factories export quality product the same as products produced elsewhere by these companies. They follow the EXACT SAME QUALITY CONTROLS already put in place elsewhere in the world.
I know there are those on this forum who would find this hard to believe.
Very true. But read this, it may change your mind.
This is what the experts are seeing and saying.
I did-this is what it said-
"Michelin is very persnickety,” he said. “At the Chinese plant you couldn’t tell if you were in China or in South Carolina. The plant has the same controls, the same machines and the same uniforms on the
workers.”
And this paragraph-
“We have same global quality standards around the world,” said Keith Price, a spokesman for Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. “The standards are the same whether we make it in Oklahoma, Germany, Brazil, Indonesia, or China, the product standards are the same.”
Seems to reinforce my post. We are not talking Chinese branded tires, however even some of those are good tires that are run on big rigs, such as Double Coin.
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CKNSLS
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06/18/13 11:15am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Tire side wall cracks?
Oh good-eeee, Michelin is building a 1.5 Billion dollar factory in China.
High performance tires to be built in China.
High performance tires to be built in China??????? What the.....???? :h
That's like saying you have a great 5.7 diesel. :S
Or you have a super fast high performance Yugo. :R
There are already major companies whose names you would recognize that are building products in China for export. These factories export quality product the same as products produced elsewhere by these companies. They follow the EXACT SAME QUALITY CONTROLS already put in place elsewhere in the world.
I know there are those on this forum who would find this hard to believe.
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CKNSLS
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06/17/13 10:22pm |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: How to check for previous "tuner" on a used truck?
Most but not all tuners leave a footprint even after being uninstalled. This is true for both gas and diesel motors.
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CKNSLS
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06/17/13 04:40pm |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Getting started....tow vehicle recommendations....PLEASE!
trailer sway is mostly caused by too much weight behind the trailer axles .
heavy tongue weight will eliminate sway .
payload capacity of the tow vehicle will determine how much tongue weight you can have .
so , the comfortable riding suv probably will be limited in payload .
what seems to work the best are crew cab and extracab pickups , especially an f250 , gmc hd2500 , and ram 2500.
you can load them up with gear and carry a 15 % tongue weight .
plus the brakes on an hd2500 , f250 , or 2500 ram are humonguous compared to an f150 .
go to the tire shop and compare the brakes on an hd 2500 to the brakes on an f150 .
it is very obvious in a side by side comparison .
F250 or similar is way overkill for a 23 foot trailer. Period.
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CKNSLS
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06/17/13 04:04pm |
Travel Trailers
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RE: Towing Speed - Am I Going Too Slow?!
I always run 60mph in the right hand lane in any state I am in. BUT, I see travel trailers passing me doing in excess of 65mph. I figure they all must be running LT tires and are not the ones who come on this forum complaining about blowing ST tires because they never speed!
NOPE NOT HERE! Not on this forum.....
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CKNSLS
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06/16/13 11:54pm |
Towing
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RE: Getting started....tow vehicle recommendations....PLEASE!
An Expedition will tow that trailer fine. I would also look at the Nissan Armada, that thing has a real powerful motor.
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CKNSLS
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06/16/13 11:33pm |
Travel Trailers
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RE: The dreaded bedroom slide crack
I have noticed this on many lippert framed fifthwheels. I also have noticed some new lippert framed fifthwheel with a control crack cut and a T-shaped molding installed this can be done for your problem. If it doesn't have a big problem that isn't known of course and my guess is you might not. The corner is a weak spot. If you notice when concrete is poured around an existing concrete slab the sharp corner will crack the new concrete and rebar is added to maybe stop it from the stress of the old corner. Enjoy your fifth and let us know the fix.
chevman
Have you noticed this on other frame manufacturers? There are more Lippert frames out there than others.
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CKNSLS
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06/15/13 06:47pm |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: The dreaded bedroom slide crack
And just the other day there as a thread about how great slides are and how they don't have any issues....
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CKNSLS
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06/15/13 06:45pm |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: Questions for "half-timers"
My wife and I had planned what we called our "trip of a lifetime" and have been traveling in our 29 foot travel trailer for 6 1/2 months. We are currently finishing our trip and heading west back to Utah.
Please don't misunderstand what I will tell you-we have had a great time and have seen almost everything we have wanted to see. I think between this trip and previous travel we are still about 5 or so states short.
After this trip we feel that fulltiming would not be for us. Some campgrounds are great...some are not so great. We were in a park where a spouse had to go into the hospital for a knee replacement. Their beautiful class A had three steps just to get in to it. After dealing with this situation in our family, he is in for a rough go of it just to get in to the RV.
It's great to have a home to go back to, and a appreciating asset and not a depreciating one.
I know there are those that feel differently and you will probably hear from them as well.
Good luck on whatever you decide.
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CKNSLS
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06/12/13 09:38pm |
Full-time RVing
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RE: New slant on Walmart camping.
I thought Walmarts were for overnighting in your $400,000 Class A.
I guess I was mistaken.....
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CKNSLS
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06/12/13 03:38pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Help Shopping: Half ton
Looks like this might be a thread that ends as a dud... I made calls to insurance and the property tax office to make sure I wasn't jumping into any surprises. Insurance was no big difference. However, property tax is insane in South Carolina. I knew this, but didn't expect anything like what she quoted. She said it will be right at $1k/year for the truck I'm looking at. It stays there for 3 years, then gradually comes down. But it will still be over $500/year for the first 10 years!
As a matter of principal, I will not pay that much in property taxes for a vehicle.
So, I went out and washed and waxed my trusty steed. She's gonna have to be our workhorse for awhile longer. I'm very disappointed. But this forces us to make due, and that ain't all bad. We'll be screaming in 2nd gear up the Rockies, but we'll have pocket money to do all we care to. :)
Having just relocated from Southern California a year ago, I will share what it is like for vehicle fees there. I purchased my Silverado new in 2011. The total "registration" fees were $635.00. You pay a base fee on the purchase amount, and then trucks get a special "weight fee" and then in California all trucks must be registered as "commercial vehicles" regardless of what (use) they were purchased for. These fees go down a little bit each year.
So - your "property tax fees are not that much higher, especially if those are your total fees each year. But the cheapest option is to keep the truck you have.
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CKNSLS
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06/12/13 03:19pm |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Lichtsinn RV, No Discount!
wnytaxman & executive: Thanks for your posts since it has made me look at my spreadsheet and see if I was missing anything. The first column is price of new rv, second is trade-in value and third is difference of 1 and 2. I think we are all saying the same thing that the price difference is the key. Love this forum since it makes you think about what you are doing and make sure you are doing it properly. Thanks for all your help.
rr2254545: I was not kicking the tires. There was a very long phone call with Lichtsinn including lots of personal and financial data from me and they knew I was serious and close to making a purchase.
I wouldn't give anyone financial data unless I had a closed deal. I hope you didn't give them your social security number. I have purchased 32 cars in my life-I tell them I am well qualified or I wouldn't be here talking to them. And if they don't want to deal I will walk up the street to someone who does.
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CKNSLS
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06/12/13 09:59am |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Help Shopping: Half ton
That was payload for the specific truck. Good advice to get it equipped how I need it. We do keep vehicles a long time and I have a tendency to go cheap and then regret it.
I went back and test drove an Eco today. Was a little disappointed that the transmission felt like it was trying to keep me out of the power. I hope that would change with tow mode and max towing rear end. Any comment on that? Also drove the 5.0 and felt the same. Got to say, Ecoboost didn't feel like the freight train many describe. I didn't sense the torque like I expected...maybe it doesn't present itself without a load.
Don't get me wrong, it pulled hard when floored, but I expected 2000rpm to be all I needed for rolling hills unloaded. It wasn't, I had to press on the peddle some.
Maybe I just don't have the experience to have an opinion.
The Ecooboost engine and trans need around 1000 miles before towing. I was headed down the road with trailer on first trip when sometime after the odometer rolled over 1200 miles it seemed to "wake up". I have read that they have the computer "lock out" max boost until it reaches a certain mileage. Others have noticed it sooner and some a little later.
That's a great way to sell trucks...not have it perform like it should when you test drive it.....
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CKNSLS
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06/10/13 08:09pm |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Help Shopping: Half ton
To the OP-
A half-ton truck is ideal for the size trailer (5,500) pounds you are looking at. The Silverado with the 5.3 is a great daily driver and will deliver 20mpg solo highway.
YOU DON'T NEED A 3/4 TON-YOU DON'T NEED A ONE TON.
I am currently on my way home from a trip across the U.S. with my 5,500 pound ( 29 feet)travel trailer and my 2011 Silverado w/the 5.3.
Up to this point the truck has performed flawlessly.
I have towed my trailer 6,000 miles thus far. I have put more than double that on the truck doing sight seeing.
So much for the "you need a dually" crowd to tow a pop-up.
So-it can be done.
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CKNSLS
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06/10/13 04:20pm |
Tow Vehicles
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