Why weight distribution is important when towing

"MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s" (mastermario) 10/04/2016 at 00:15 • Filed to: Towing

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This is a very cool demonstration on why weight distribution is important when towing.

Take 13 seconds to watch this. It could save your life.

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HammerheadFistpunch > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 10/04/2016 at 00:25

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Dem exponentially amplfing oscillations! I wrote a whole thing about this...this thing that 15 seconds of video explained

Urambo Tauro > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 10/04/2016 at 00:42

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Interesting. I’ve known the basic rules of trailering for a while now, but I never understood the exact physics behind why they’re so important. This helps a lot.

shop-teacher > HammerheadFistpunch 10/04/2016 at 00:45

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I’m still glad I read yours :)

shop-teacher > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 10/04/2016 at 00:46

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Wow, that is a great demonstration.

RallyWrench > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 10/04/2016 at 01:13

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You only have to get it wrong once to learn that lesson. I made the mistake of jumping in to pull a trailer that an unknown acquaintance had loaded and quickly found it undriveable. That was scary.

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 10/04/2016 at 01:31

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I would argue this demonstrates *that* weight distribution is important but not *why*. Semantics I know, but you’re just showing something, not explaining what’s going on and why it’s happening.

kanadanmajava1 > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 10/04/2016 at 03:39

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That 1:10 rolling road would be a very nice addition for a miniature wind tunnel. Please give it to me.

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > HammerheadFistpunch 10/04/2016 at 07:30

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Yea, I read yours before. It’s amazing what a demonstration can do. I did really enjoy your write up though, but I’m an engineer so that kind of thing is interesting to me.

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > RallyWrench 10/04/2016 at 07:31

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Wow. I’ve never actually experienced this, but I can imagine it would be quite frightening

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > kanadanmajava1 10/04/2016 at 07:34

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It is pretty cool

Comes over to help work on your car and only drinks beer > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 10/04/2016 at 08:29

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It’s really not as bad as the video makes it seem. For most cars, they will naturally want to self correct. This is obviously not the case with Mustangs, which as we have seen innumerable times, naturally wish to lose control and murder people. (sarcasm font)

Pickup_man > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 10/04/2016 at 09:06

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That’s really cool and really simple.