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There have been loads of threads like this recently. There is a school of thought here that beleives a stabiliser masks the early signs that there is something wrong with the outfit (noseweight, loading etc)
If you are new to towing, I (and a few others) strongly advise you not to use a stabiliser until you have found the ideal way to load your van. Try moving the weight forwards and backwards around the axle and try to find the best position.
In doing this, you will get to feel the difference it makes when your load is not right. If you are using a stabiliser, this feel is removed, so you could very well be towing a badly loaded outfit with inherant instability and be blissfully unaware of this until you are in a lot of trouble.
When you are confident in your loading by all means fit a stabiliser, however, if you have a good matched outfit and it is well loaded, the stabiliser should have very little effect.
There are a minority here that still believe a stabiliser is an essential safety device. They are wrong. Research has shown they do very little to stop an outfit snaking but thay will dampen out the warning signs. In light of this, even the manufacturers dropped their claims that their product was a safety device.
Given that the warning signs are removed, and the stabiliser will not stop a snake, is a stabiliser on a badly loaded outfit even to be considered dangerous?
If the warning signs of a badly loaded outfit could be likened to the warning from a smoke alarm, could taking the batterys out of the smoke alarm be dangerous?
I personally do have a stabiliser, but wouldn't buy another one.
PS. Couldn't you have found a bigger photo?
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Topic: newbie needs help
), we used to tow with a Scott stabiliser which is just the bar type, (not that different from the Bulldog you mentioned I expect), and have to say that apart from when it whacked me on the shin where it was unhitched from the tin tent but the tow car had broken down and kind peeps at the service station came to help hubby push start the car -minus caravan natch- and I got in the way 'trying to be useful', (as if I could be being a decrepit
