You never know what will happen . . . until it happens!
They have changed so much since we had ours back on 2008 . . .
The light weight and and wide track suspension made it a pleasure to tow. We towed it with a F250, then later with a RAM 3500. Both trucks worked without effort. Never had any "white knuckle" issues. No sway and tracked great. We had hooked up our round bar weight distribution system that we had from our previous trailer. Towed a few thousand miles with it and then removed the bars and towed thousands of miles more. No issues either way. Great trailer.
All it took to convince me to get the WD setup when we bought our old trailer was our very first trip to a local campground about 30 miles away.
I had a one-ton Dodge Van at the time that was way more truck than I needed for that old Coachman 24-footer, and I called the hitch shop the very next day to make an appointment to get set up.
Funny . . . when we picked up the old trailer from the sellers, they pulled all of the WD stuff out of the cubby hole and I asked them what they were doing, they replied that this stuff doesn't go with the trailer . . . and now I know why!
Because it is expensive (I am still using the setup I bought for that old Dodge van).
Now, when I hook the WD stuff up to my new truck (2015 Chevy Silverado 2500HD), it acts like it doesn't even need it as I barely have to put any pressure on the tow bars.
And in all reality . . . I probably DON'T need to use the WD stuff for weight distribution.
But from a safety standpoint . . . having that extra connection to the truck makes me feel safer about the hookup should anything happen.
Like my recent white knuckle incident that I posted about in the General Forum back in August, where if that WD stuff wasn't hooked up, I doubt if the outcome would have been the same.
No matter what truck that I might have been towing with coming down the mountain.
Without the tow bars connected, I'm sure that I wouldn't have been able to control the stop and my trailer probably would have swayed sideways and off the road, and probably pulled us over the edge of a 200-foot drop off over the edge of the mountain and into the river below.
Whenever I see anyone pulling more than a popup camper on a bumper hitch without a WD setup, I shake my head in shame (and say a bad name that can't be posted here under my breath) as they are only setting themselves up for disaster somewhere down the road.
Not only are they endangering themselves and their families . . . but anyone else who is on the same road with them at any given moment.
Sorry . . . I just have strong beliefs about this issue as I've seen many truck-trailer combos on their sides along the highways over the years, and most of them were pulling with either tow vehicles not suited for the trailer they had hitched up . . . or didn't have the proper hitch setup!
And I'm sure that some of them were probably due to inexperienced towing.
Here is a link to that thread . . .
https://heartlandowners.org/showthread.php/47729-Close-call
