Author: ToolmanJohn
Subject: Reasonable hitch costs?
Posted: 04 Feb 2017 at 10:02am
Tow vehicle structure also plays an important role in how much weight the tow vehicle can take. Transmission design, coolant system design,and the suspension design and dynamic with a load that the engineers have taken time to consider as what is safe at legal speeds. It's NOT all about engine power.
Subject: Reasonable hitch costs?
Posted: 04 Feb 2017 at 10:02am
Tow vehicle structure also plays an important role in how much weight the tow vehicle can take. Transmission design, coolant system design,and the suspension design and dynamic with a load that the engineers have taken time to consider as what is safe at legal speeds. It's NOT all about engine power.
The hitch mounting design, where it's mounted, how strong the bolt points are, can the unit body take it?? You could move-tow 10,000 pounds with a Civic, but things would get ugly rather quickly.
This is why sometime people will recommend not towing more than 80% of a vehicle rated tow capability, it just stresses things out to the max. If only doing the occasional tow, and not epic distances, then going to the max end once in a while wouldn't be harmful.