VX Towing

[tom4bren]

Well, I finally installed the trailer wiring adapter. It was pretty easy but took a while since I soldered all of the connections. Yeah, I know - what took so long since I installed the hitch 6 weeks ago. I told you I procrastinate.

We towed the boat to the Potomac on Saturday. The VX tows well but you can certainly 'feel' it behind you. I did have to run with the Power switch on because I was having a hard time pulling some of the hills without it. The boat is a SeaDoo Sportster weighing in at about 2,000 lbs with the trailer. I guess with the 33's, that's about the limit for towing for us.

I took a couple of pictures but forgot to bring in the memory card this morning. I'll try to post them tomorrow.

[ZEUS]

Did you get an auxillary tranny cooler yet?

[johnnyapollo]

I had a tandom axel trailer behind my VX with about 4K lbs in books - didn't have any issues pulling but stopping was a huge issue. First time I came to a stop sign I ended up in the middle of the intersection. I then learned to do gradual braking when approaching a stop and all was well.

-- John

[thedutchguy]

I had a tandom axel trailer behind my VX with about 4K lbs in books - didn't have any issues pulling but stopping was a huge issue. First time I came to a stop sign I ended up in the middle of the intersection. I then learned to do gradual braking when approaching a stop and all was well.

-- John

Don't you guys have trailerbrakes?

[nfpgasmask]

Only very expensive trailers have brakes on them....for us little guys towing a quad or wave runner, most of the trailers are just simple pull trailers with wiring for brake lights.

If I were to tow a small trailer with say, a Polaris Rzr or a quad, would I need a tranny cooler?

Bart

Don't you guys have trailerbrakes?

[tom4bren]

"Did you get an auxillary tranny cooler yet?"

Naw, I only tow it about 30-40 miles at a stretch & Tranny heat didn't seem to be an issue. If I ever decide to tow it down to Tennessee (Watauga Lake) I might look into it.

"Don't you guys have trailerbrakes?"

I'd love to have surge brakes on it, but it wasn't offered & I have too many other "honey do's" on the list to tackle something like that right now. I've been thinking about getting a trailer for a 21 foot boat & modifying it to hold the boat & both jetskis but so far it's just a concept in my head. I also thought about putting a receiver on the back of the jetski trailer & towing the boat behind that but was told it's slightly illegal (even though I've seen a couple of other people doing it this year). In either of those cases, I'd definitely add surge brakes (P.S. I hate electric brakes and would never go that route).

"If I were to tow a small trailer with say, a Polaris Rzr or a quad, would I need a tranny cooler?"

It's never a bad idea to add the Tranny cooler but I don't think that it would be necessary in your application. Basically, you need to decide based upon: the maximum load you'll be hauling, terrain (lots of hill climbing will certainly bring up the tranny temps), and environment (if you're running through Death Valley in the summer, you may want the tranny cooler even if you aren't towing anything).

Johnny - How long did it take before you started breathing normally again after that? I did that once with a heavy load of firewood in the back of my ol' Dodge.