Jenn
Ranger
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This piece is added to the electric system that plugs the trailer to the vehicle. I will take pictures later. You download an app to your phone. You can have up to ten trailers talk to the device and you would move it from trailer to trailer as needed. When you are all hooked up and ready to drive you turn on the app, select your trailer and touch a red circle on the screen and it sets the brake level for your trailer. As I was first setting it up it asked fir the vehicle and trailer type. Based on my selection it set the app for 50%. It always remembers that setting for that combo.
For a couple of real time examples:
The car is a 2011 Subaru Outback. Trailer is a 550 teardrop. I hooked up on a driveway that had a bit of a slope to the street. The hitch was new to me and the brake controller was not activated yet and I was getting ready to go to the campinn factory for the tuneup work. So I hooked up the car and trailer and was practicing pulling into the street and backing up the driveway. At one point I released the gas in the backup process and the car was still in reverse and the trailer pushed the car down the hill back into the street. Surprise! Now this was before we discovered that there were basically no brakes on the teardrop anymore.
After that, I backed back into the driveway and went through the process to set up the CURT system.
Then spend two days at the campinn factory and new brakes and tires are installed on the teardrop.
Fast forward some days to I90 in Souix City, SD. I'm approaching a box truck to quickly, that appears to be stopped in the road. Hit the brake and instantly feel and hear the trailer become drag weight. And avoid parking in the box truck.
The solution was a combo of the CURT brake controller and new brakes and new tires.
I will take some pics and edit this a bit but time for coffee!
Maybe someone else has the CURT?
This piece is added to the electric system that plugs the trailer to the vehicle. I will take pictures later. You download an app to your phone. You can have up to ten trailers talk to the device and you would move it from trailer to trailer as needed. When you are all hooked up and ready to drive you turn on the app, select your trailer and touch a red circle on the screen and it sets the brake level for your trailer. As I was first setting it up it asked fir the vehicle and trailer type. Based on my selection it set the app for 50%. It always remembers that setting for that combo.
For a couple of real time examples:
The car is a 2011 Subaru Outback. Trailer is a 550 teardrop. I hooked up on a driveway that had a bit of a slope to the street. The hitch was new to me and the brake controller was not activated yet and I was getting ready to go to the campinn factory for the tuneup work. So I hooked up the car and trailer and was practicing pulling into the street and backing up the driveway. At one point I released the gas in the backup process and the car was still in reverse and the trailer pushed the car down the hill back into the street. Surprise! Now this was before we discovered that there were basically no brakes on the teardrop anymore.
After that, I backed back into the driveway and went through the process to set up the CURT system.
Then spend two days at the campinn factory and new brakes and tires are installed on the teardrop.
Fast forward some days to I90 in Souix City, SD. I'm approaching a box truck to quickly, that appears to be stopped in the road. Hit the brake and instantly feel and hear the trailer become drag weight. And avoid parking in the box truck.
The solution was a combo of the CURT brake controller and new brakes and new tires.
I will take some pics and edit this a bit but time for coffee!
Maybe someone else has the CURT?
