Brand new rpod, soft brakes?

Brand new rpod. Soft brakes?

I drove home from taking delivery on an rpod 180, 2016. I thought the trailer brakes were going to be more effective in stopping.

The tech set the controller ato 3.0. He said It felt good. (In the dealer parking lot, slow speed.

While driving 110 miles home I set the controller to maximum. 13.0. I finally felt something assist from the trailer

1. Is there a brake-in period? Should I just wait?
2. Does self adjusting help? Reverse, brake. Forward, brake, repeat
3. Does anyone else have this issue?
4. Am I expecting too much out of the trailer braking?
5. What's wrong?

My controller has two adjusments.  On the side is a slider that adjust how hard the brakes come on.The the control that you are talking about sets When the brakes come on. On my 180, 3.0 is too mch brake.  I like about 2.5.  But, if you have the other control set for the brakes to come very very light, you might nit be getting any brake action at all.  Look for the other control, whech is usually a slider on the side, set it so your brakes come on HARD. I am betting this will solve your problem.

Thanks everyone for your advice. What I'm going to do is select the boost on the brake controller and increase the Boost action. I've been breaking with little to no boost set in the lowest position.

Originally posted by mtbmitch Does the trailer pull to one side when applying the brakes? If not then I suspect the brake shoes have some grease from sloppy assembly at FR.

Here's another question related to the topic. How tight should the brakes be? I raised my R-Pod up to grease the hubs. On the driver's side of my 179, the wheel rotates relatively freely, but on the passenger side, it seems to really drag, enough so that it is hard to turn the wheel. Is that too tight? I would think that they should be equally easy or hard to rotate if they are self-adjusting.