WD hitches - Event Date: 07 Nov 2016 - 01 Dec 2016

Our TV is a Tundra with 5.7L engine and tow package including integrated anti-sway.  We've used the E2 600# round bar from the get-go with, first, our 171 and, now, our 180.  Yes, I've towed both without the bars (to/from a dealer about 10 highway miles away) and I wasn't nearly as comfortable as when I'm using the bars.  Speeds without were around 60; any faster and I could see "wiggling" plus passing semis was a noticeable experience.  With the bars, the TV and trailer were as one unit.  My typical highway speeds are around 62-63 in 5th (6-spd tranny).  IMHO, the 600# size E2 is definitely the sweet spot for RPods.

Thanks everyone for your responses.  

Weekend Warrior, Please don't extrapolate your experience with a truck towing to people towing with other vehicles. I am sure that the tow characteristics of your Chevy Colorado with the diesel is different than that of Steve 911 with a Toyota Highlander or than mine with our Ford Escape.

The advice you offer at the end is valid, regardless of whether someone uses a plain ball hitch, a ball hitch with a friction stabilizer, or a WD hitch with stabilization. For my part, I limit the speed to 60 mph, mainly because the AeroPlus instructions say that I should  do so to prevent damage to it. Our mileage is better also for doing so. As for the locking lever, one way to make sure that the hitch is properly connected is to try to lift the hitch and back of the TV attached with it. For me, this happens when I raise it up to put the bars on our Equal-i-zer hitch. I always use a lock and then I always cross the chains.

Something similar happened to my dad. We were young and sleeping in the back of our station wagon. I understand that the trailer almost jackknifed. It was not long after that that my parents sold the trailer and got a truck camper. I have always erred on the side of safety because of this. I would rather have sway control and not need it than to need sway control and not have it.

  I'm going to repost this from a few weeks ago because I think there is too strong a bias in favor of WDHs and sway bars around here.  Maybe there should be a favorable bias, but from my own experience they aren't always necessary.  And while the notion that you may not know you need it until it's too late may be true, it's also no guarantee that even with a WDH and sway control you won't have issues. 

  You can argue that I've been lucky -- and I certainly won't suggest that I have any special expertise or  experience, but I do have a good bit of experience without a WDH or sway control, and now I have some experience with them both.

  So, for what it's worth, here's my response to a similar subject a few weeks ago: