Telluride TV with E-19 without a WDH?

[Dave Miller]

Hello all!
Our 2022 E-19 came with a Fastway E2 WDH. Don't hate me but the entire set-up along with the hitching/unhitching process seems really complicated.

Our travel style is to travel a bit each day, camp early and then unhitch to explore. With the extra complexity of a WDH I'm afraid we'll wind up dragging the E-19 with us everywhere.

Our Telluride X-Pro has the factory tow package (5000# tow rating, 5500# with WDH) and rear self-leveling shocks. Our E-19 with the factory options is 3700# and we'll travel dry with a max load of 4200#. Has anyone had success with a combo like this without a WDH? TIA

PS: We're totally happy muddling along at 60 MPH.
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[Dave Miller]

I ordered my E19 when my TV was a Pilot so I ordered the E2. Before picking the E19 up in Chilliwack I traded the Pilot (and its transmission system error) for an Expedition. 5k tow rating to a 9k tow rating. I use my E2. It’s great. I just got home after a 4000 mile trip. No sway, and no bouncing.

And, more to the point, releasing the coupler is far more difficult than the say bars. I have to block the trailer tires and do a forward and backward rock with the TV to re
Ease the couple. I rarely need the tool to set the bars and can almost always slide them off easily. The receiver hitch weighs way too much because I need the bigger drop and it’s solid steel, but so what. A safer, more comfortable tow,

Also, if it’s a short drive day, don’t put the tow bars on. I don’t need them but always use them.

Dave

 

[MrLynn]

as I get older (70 last year), the manual jack is becoming more of a pain, and I think if/when I need to replace it again, I'll consider an electric. My Expedition's cargo hatch is much more out of the way than the tailgates of my previous pickup trucks....

When we got our E21C the previous owner showed me how to flip the bars with the special iron crow-bar-like tool that comes with the Fastway E-2. But once I discovered that you could insert or remove the bars by hand, simply by lifting the jack up to its maximum height, I never used that tool.

For that reason, I'm glad we have the electric tongue jack. It would take more hand-cranking than I'd like.

 

[Thrak]

Sorry. Posted in the wrong place. New to these forums. My bad.

 

[Chainplate]

We tow our 17B with a 2016 Kia Sorento (V6 and AWD - pretty close to the Telluride and Palisade). When I installed the Curt hitch, I spoke with a technician from the factory about a WDH and he said not to use one for two reasons: 1. Their Class 3 hitch that fits the Sorento wasn't designed to accept a WDH and, 2. There wasn't enough trailer weight to distribute.

While we're still fairly new to RVing, we do have about 5,000 miles towing our 17B and even in strong cross winds (or being passed by a speeding tractor/trailer rig - it happens often because we rarely exceed 60mph) we have no significant sway.

 

[Chainplate]

Not exactly related to this thread and everyone but me probably already knows this but I thought it was a clever way to use an ordinary bathroom scale to measure tongue weight:

How to Measure Tongue Weight

There are a few different methods that can be used as a trailer tongue weight calculator, including using a tongue weight scale, using a bathroom scale or using a vehicle scale. Tongue weight is the downward force exerted at the vehicle-trailer coupling point when your trailer is hooked up for...

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