VCCA Home Forums GENERAL DISCUSSION Hauling or Trailering Tie Down

MrMack, I got your PM. I am much closer to a post office than a copy center so I will have both magazines in the mail to you shortly after lunch today. I always pass them on to a friend anyway; I don't save them. Beamer

Beamer,
I received this photo you sent and I will post it here. I would never tie down a car in this manner. the tiedown is several feet behind the wheel that it is attached to, and in line with the wheel, if the front tiedown gets loose the car can go over either side of the trailer. BTW the article was titled Hauling your car the right way----partII original credits intact.
I call this a bad example, IMHO.

There is also too much strap length between wheel and anchor point not only allowing car to move sideways but by the time the slack taken the rear of the car would be hanging off the back of the trailer.
Tony

The other problem is that the strap anchor point on the wheel is not in line with the center of the wheel and tie-down on trailer. After a few bumps (the rear of the trailer moves up and down much greater that any other part) the wheel will rotate a little at a time and loosen the strap.

I'll just bet elsewhere in the article they recommend to attach the straps to the frame or body a limit its movement. Another bad idea, that I had to learn the hard way.

If the article is supposed to illustrate how to do it right, I am glad I quit taking that newspaper many years ago. Got tired of information that was patently wrong and no interest on the editorial staff to get it right or publish corrections.