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Originally Posted by Chapter Four
Chevypower, You're quoting US sites, which have to cater for states that allowing towing at 130kmh, hence the higher ball loads.
Sorry but safe is safe. Something is safe or it's not.
Towing at 5% ball load @90kmh is just as safe as towing at 15% ball load at 90kmh. And the studies have shown that to be true. Your good at googling, look it up.
The car manufacturers wrote those manuals because its safe to to tow 2300kg with a ball load of 115kg, that's why, or do you think they just made that up?
And no, i don't own a VW.
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It’s not really that 5% is safer in Australia, it’s just that payload is the limiting factor, so how do you inflate the towing capacity? By lowering the recommended percentage. That kind of happened with the older style Ram 1500 in the US too (when they first went to coils). They would say you could pull 9,000 lbs. but if you spec’d out a crew cab EcoDiesel fully loaded, you would only have 800 lbs of payload. Fill it with fuel and put four adults inside, and most of that available payload is gone. Suddenly you really shouldn’t be towing 9,000 lbs anymore. The manufacturers know this, but somehow the marketing guys get away with promoting such figures.