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Required in most states, safety cables help ensure that your towed vehicle won't become a runaway vehicle if a breakaway occurs. Aircraft-grade steel ensures strength, and the vinyl coating keeps the cables from scratching your tow bar.
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Hi there flat towers. Today we're going to be taking a look at Roadmaster's 80 inch coiled safety cables. Your safety cables are one of five main components you'll need when flat towing your vehicle. In addition to the safety cables, which is a supplemental connection between your motor home and your vehicle, you'll also need your tow bar which is the main connection between your motor home and your vehicle. You'll need your base plate, which is the connection point installed on your vehicle for your tow bar to attach to. Your diode wiring or magnetic lights where you can transfer all of your lighting signals from your motor home back to your vehicles so people behind you will know your intentions when going down the road.
And lastly, your supplemental braking system which will help you stop your vehicle because the brakes will apply in the vehicle when you apply the brakes in your motor home.This ADM set of safety cables is a heavy duty set of safety cables with a weight capacity of up to 10,000 pounds. That makes these cables suitable for pretty much anything that you're planning on flat towing. Whether it be a small vehicle like our mini here or something large like a Ram truck. Coiled cables are a great option if you don't have any cable management on your flat tow setup because the coil will keep tension on the cable, keeping it up off the road. So this way as you're going down the road, your cables aren't dragging and wearing through the vinyl coating.
Our cables are constructed of a braided aircraft grade galvanized steel, and they're coated in a red vinyl that's going to protect them from any road debris or abrasions it might get occasionally bouncing up against your tow bar.The location on our cable where it connects to our hook has been reinforced, you can see how thick that steel is around there. And this also provides a good channel here for movement, so our cables can easily flex, which will extend the life of the cable cause we're not causing bends in the cable, we're allowing the metal to just slide and flex. The hooks located at the end of each safety cable are constructed of a drop forged steel and feature spring loaded latch that ensures your cable's not going to come disconnected.While we do have hooks on each end, the hooks are rather large because they're so heavy duty, so also included with your safety cables, you'll receive two of these C-shaped hooks that lock into place. So if you have real tight space like here, this is kind of difficult to get this large cable into this small hole here, but we can take our hook off and then to make it more accessible we can place the C-shaped hook on, tighten it down, and then connect our hook right onto that. And this makes it much easier to get these large hooks connected when you've got limited space.When you're connecting your safety cables, you want to make sure that you cross your cables side to side to create a cradle underneath your components.
So I've got them hooked up to our vehicle side here, this is the passenger side cable so I'm going to extend it out and I'm going to hook it to the driver's side on our hitch. And now we'll hook up our other cable, which is connected to the driver's side on the vehicle we'll attach it to the passenger side on our hitch and you can now see that this cross here has created that cradle. So in the event that we had a catastrophic disconnect, our components would be caught by these cables and keep them up off the road. Without that, it's possible that the components could fall down and dig into the concrete, which could result in further damage. And that completes our look at Roadmaster's 80 inch coiled safety cables..
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David W.
7/9/2017
Still great. Easiest ever to attach and detach.
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David W.
7/9/2017
Still great. Easiest ever to attach and detach.