Re: Trailer Towing Question - tires (or tyres)

Posted by Don Wadge on August 23, 2005 at 11:44:48 from (205.200.74.201):

In Reply to: Trailer Towing Question - tires (or tyres) posted by Rick Weaver on August 23, 2005 at 10:06:32:

Rick, 450 lbs. is not a lot of weight on the hitch. If that caused control problems on your Grand Cherokee I would look more to tire stability on your Cherokee than to the trailer. If your tow vehicle tires (particularly rear) are underinflated or if they just aren't up to it you will have control problems driving straight down the highway. If your rear tires give sideways during the normal driving correction one does going straight down the highway then your vehicle is over-correcting and you make another correction which is further compounded. The result is a very bad drive home and a dangerous one too if its bad enough. I think you should look to the tires on your Cherokee for the problem. Either that or it's the Cherokee suspension. If as one other post said the Cherokee is rated for 5,000lbs. you should be good if you get enough tire. Also the Cherokee is probably rated for 5,000 with a weight distribution hitch.
I've pulled several different bumper hitch trailers and my experience is that it is better to have a little too much weight on your hitch than not enough and regardless of how much weight you have on your hitch, if you do not have enough of the weight ahead of your axles the tail will wag the dog.
Just a comment on how trailers are built. I'll get disagreement on this, but, I think a lot of trailers are built with the axles too far forward.

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