Re: Trailering a Car
RobS,
Don't know if you picked up your car yet, but thought I'd throw in my similar recent experience. About a month ago I bought a little Dodge Neon (~35 mpg vs ~12 for the Hemi Ram) from a dealer 1 1/2 hrs away. My wife was busy at work/school so I decided to pick up with my truck/trailer. Trailer is a 16', 2' dovetail, and ramps only 4' long. I have some plywood pads that I drop the ends of the ramps on. I used a different ball hitch than I normally do that put the front of the trailer up a couple inches and I dropped the tongue jack down before loading. The Neon really has very little ground clearance, but went up the ramps and onto the trailer just fine. Here's something to think about though. Will you be able to open the drivers door to get out once on the trailer? My door cleared the top of the trailer fender, but just barely, maybe a 1/4". Now figuring out how to tie the car down is what took some work. There were no dedicated tie points under this little car. I ended up using all my axle straps, 2 pairs on each corner on the suspension arms and hooked to D-rings on the trailer with the big ratchet straps. I still need to get me the binder chains for this stuff, but thats another story. Anyway, I've heard of plenty of people that had their cars towed on rollbacks and ended up with bent suspensions cause the guys weren't carefull what they hooked the chains to.
Let us know how you made out.
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Hemiguy
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