Re: Toyota Tundra see-saw ad

"B A R R Y" <beech23pilot (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote

TT wrote:
And he indicates you have to read the fine print to see the trailer
is fitted with electric brakes.

Wouldn't any street legal trailer of that size have to be?

The trailer was only around 5,000 lbs. Even my Frontier claims I can
tow 5,000 lbs but Nissan does recommend the use of trailer brakes for
any trailer over 1,000 lbs. I've towed a trailer over 5,000lb behind
an Expedition with no trailer brakes, but I wouldn't want to try to go
down a 45 degree ramp that way.

The whole deceptive Tundra ads debate played out a couple of months
back. The see-saw ad is one of a series of misleading/deceptive Tundra
ads. Another was the one where they ran the Tundra down a ramp out
over a canyon - they masked out the tether used in that one. Or the 0
to 60 to 0 commercial where the voice over implies that the Tundra
stopped much shorter than the other trucks. Actually the Tundra has no
advantage in terms of stopping distances, but it did accelerate to 60
in a shorter distance, allowing it to start stopping sooner. The
commercial was factually correct, but implied something that was not
actually true.

Ed

On Fri, 18 May 2007 08:16:58 -0400, "C. E. White"
<cewhite3 (AT) removemindspring (DOT) com> wrote:

The trailer was only around 5,000 lbs. Even my Frontier claims I can
tow 5,000 lbs but Nissan does recommend the use of trailer brakes for
any trailer over 1,000 lbs. I've towed a trailer over 5,000lb behind
an Expedition with no trailer brakes, but I wouldn't want to try to go
down a 45 degree ramp that way.
If you do the math the Toyota has more drawbar/pulling power than ANY

1/2 truck out there regardless of tow ratings. (anything other models
are rated to tow, it will pul it harder) Sometimes ads do not really
show this. As far as break, once I loast brakes and a 20K plus grain
trailer in town near a mill at low speed (about 15 MPH) and it pushed
me like I was not even there in slow motion with all 4 tires locked up
until it stopped which seemed like for ever. You can tow 5k without
brakes as many do but you will not be able to stop it effectively in a
hurry, especailly at speed especail with a short wheel based vehicle
like a explorer.
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