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21/4/2016 at 1:06pm
Location: S.Wales
Outfit: Bailey Pageant Bordeaux
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OH and I have had some absolutely blazing rows about this, as a result, I haven't let him tow purely because of the way he drives.
He's not a bad driver, he just drives every vehicle as though it's a racing car; using the gears to slow down when approaching a corner or junction rather than the brakes. Even though he's currently got an automatic, he's overriding the gearbox to do this. As a result, normally he's going too fast when you get to the junction and he ends up standing on the anchors to stop. Consequently passengers have a rough ride & I'm sure if he were ever towing livestock, they'd all be on the floor within a mile of leaving home, I'm sure everything in cupboards would either be broken or on the floor by the time we got to where we are going if he tows the caravan or even if the caravan makes it there in one piece.
I've mostly towed horses, although this is my second caravan, I slow down using the brakes and only changing gear when I'm doing the correct speed for that gear, (I do select lower gears to keep the unit at a suitable speed when we're going down a significant hill) I try not to throw passengers around when I'm driving, and my horses always got back on the trailer to come home after a show.
OH says he'll be absolutely fine towing, I'm not sure I'm prepared for him to prove it with £9k worth of caravan on the back.
He also doesn't reverse off his mirrors or by looking where he's going instead he uses the reverse sensors on his car (and, despite the fact the sensors were screaming at him, managed to reverse into my car yesterday because he wasn't looking where he was going....then blamed the automatic gearbox! but that's a whole other story) How on earth can he expect to reverse a caravan using reversing sensors? It's not as if the caravan is fitted with them!
So how are you suposed to slow down or stop when towing?
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Doing whatever the rice krispies tell me to.
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21/4/2016 at 10:44pm
Location: East Herts
Outfit: 1992 Elddis Wisp 450CT + X Trail
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I learnt to drive a bus in the early 1970s, and was told even then that using the gears to slow down was an old fashioned idea. The bus I learnt on was a double decker with a crash gearbox, so double-de-clutch up and down the gears. It had vacuum assisted drum brakes.
I was told, use the brakes to slow down, then change into the appropriate gear. On the test I had to change all the way up the box, then all the way down again, but this was not to slow down, but to prove I could do it. I was expected to use the brakes to slow to a suitable speed for each gear-change when coming down the box.
On a bus you may have standing passengers, so smoothly with everything is the way. No harsh braking except in an emergency. This is the way I still drive, whatever I am driving.
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Colin
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