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Buying A Car Tow Dolly

By: Richard Brown

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This article is going to evaluate a couple of issues you should consider before you buy a tow dolly. First, you want to consider the warranty. A lot of manufacturers offer a very restricted 1 year warranty on the "assembly" of the tow dolly. This sort of warranty is very ambiguous. Hardly anything can go wrong with the tow dolly “assembly”. The real warranty concern is that of moving parts like brakes, bearings, actuators etc. These are the critical moving components and really about the only thing that can breakdown or go wrong on a tow dolly. When making the purchase look for a firm that offers a 5 year warranty on these parts. That is a good indication to you the high faith they have in their product.

There are no warranties for lights, tires, wheel straps, ratchets. In fact lights and wheel straps are considered to be consumables on a tow dolly. You have a choice of four types of Car Tow Dolly. An idler, ( No Brakes ), an Electric Brake System, A Hydraulic Surge Drum Brake System, or a Hydraulic Surge Disc Brake System.

The idler system is frequently assigned for around town use, moving small cars from place to place around town. If you intend to travel it is important to know that many states need brakes of some kind on a Car Tow Dolly. Everyyear more states are added to the list. Also, the resale value of a tow dolly with brakes is much higher.

Electric Brake System is ok. But not the best system. These brakes need a Brake Control Box inside your RV. This brake control box has built in sensort technology, and external adjusting handles. If you are not very precise in understanding and adjusting these external control knobs then in reality you do not have brakes on your Tow Dolly and just don't know it. Moreover, if you ever have a brake problem you will have to troubleshoot beginning with the brake system, the wiring from the brake control box back to the trailer plug, then the entire wiring system of the tow dolly. A real burden and quite costly proposition.

The most efficient and trouble free is the Hydraulic Surge Brake System. It will cost a good bit more, but it is worth it. Almost all manufacturers use a Hydraulic Surge "DRUM" Brake System. This is in reality a rather old technology. Drum brakes tend to become much hotter, have a tendency towards chucking or sudden hard braking. Due to the features of a Tow Dolly, Electric and Hydraulic DRUM Brake Systems are very difficult to adjust. The adjusting port is blocked by a spindle plate making it difficult to get to the adjuster port to adjust the brakes. A number of dealers will say to you that tow dollies have brake adjusters. Well that is a play on words. They do have adjusters, but they are manual, not automatic. No one manufactures a trailer of any type with self adjusting brakes. Even after just one long trip tow dolly brakes need to be adjusted or you will be driving without brakes and not even know it. So, the near perfect braking system is a Hydraulic Surge "DISC" Brake System. DISC brakes do not get hot, never need adjusting, they do not chuck or hit hard when activated and they are four times more efficient and powerful than a DRUM system. The pads are in clear view and effortless to replace with pads obtainable at all auto parts stores.

The ideal tow dolly will also come fitted with maintenance free bearings. Bearings that never require lubrication. These are very common on very costly high end equipment trailers but are rarely observed on small trailers. These are just a couple of points to consider before you make your purchase decision. One should take their time and consider all points carefully. Go to the manufacturer's web site and see for yourself how much information they make available to you about their product.

The more disclosure the better. Safe Trailers Save Lives.

Article Source: http://depositarticles.com/

Acme Trailer specializes in Tow Bars and Tow Dollies

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