{"id":15979,"date":"2012-11-14T18:46:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T23:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=15979"},"modified":"2016-09-18T21:54:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T18:54:39","slug":"sneak-peek-of-my-new-tow-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/sneak-peek-of-my-new-tow-setup\/","title":{"rendered":"Sneak Peek of My New Tow Setup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t get out of the shop until almost four, so please forgive me for not having the strength to unpack my computer and camera to post a proper introduction to my new tow system. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/20121114-183227.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/20121114-183227.jpg\" alt=\"20121114-183227.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tow setup was done by the fine folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horizonlussier.com\/en\">Horizon Lussier<\/a> in Marieville. I am thrilled with the level of care and attention they provided to make sure I was properly set up. They were extremely communicative and took the time to read all the information provided by Ready Brake.<\/p>\n<p>Without going into too much pictureless detail, I can see a few advantages to my new setup, notably that I don&#8217;t have to open the hood to make the electrical connection and that I don&#8217;t have to get into the RV and move ahead a little to tug on the bar to get it to engage.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve decided to start dropping the toad more often to get fuel with just the motorhome and I think the new setup will lighten my workload a little.<\/p>\n<p>I was told that I should, in theory, start and run the engine on the toad before towing, something I never did with my Accent, but will be doing now.<\/p>\n<p>For the drive back to my mother&#8217;s, I did both highway and town driving, merged lanes, went up and down a hill, and stopped a little suddenly. I can definitely feel the truck behind me, especially when I stop after going downhill, but Miranda seems to be handling the extra weight just fine.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to wait till I speak with my insurance company before sharing how much it cost get me set up properly and legally. Let&#8217;s just say my estimates were much more accurate than theirs.<\/p>\n<p>I feel very comfortable heading out tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t get out of the shop until almost four, so please forgive me for not having the strength to unpack my computer and camera to post a proper introduction to my new tow system. \ud83d\ude42 The tow setup was done by the fine folks at Horizon Lussier in Marieville. I am thrilled with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[632,810,1540,635,718,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-chambly","category-marieville","category-north-america","category-quebec","category-rving","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}