Just towed a car for the first time

[macgyver]

Picked up my buddy's 18' featherlite car trailer yesterday. Had to tow my neighbor's daughter's car (99 monte carlo) this morning about 25 miles. her serpentine belt broke, and the new one I put on didn't seem to want to stay on the pulley straight, I think the idler pulley is bad.

Later on this evening I have to drive to the ghetto in south atlanta to tow my buddy's 91 MR2 Turbo back from the shop that just finished a 3rd gen 3SGTE swap in it. He doesn't have insurance or a tag and the rear wheel bearing is bad so he doesn't feel comfortable driving it back. Its about 40 miles from there back up to canton.

Towing the monte carlo wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I would have to guess around 5000-5500 lbs. The trailer weighs 1800 (gotta love all aluminum) and the car probably 3000-3500. With the monte carlo on it this morning it squatted quite a bit at first but once I got the car centered up on the trailer it sat a lot more even. It definitely takes a lot more to stop it since I dont have the trailer brakes wired. Mine is a 2007 6spd.

Here's a pic of the truck hooked up to the trailer, the trailer, and the lowrider pic from two weeks ago when I had the bed loaded up with 30 bags of mulch. It was sitting on the bump stops with that mulch in the back.

[macgyver]

Showing love for toyota. Mr2 is loaded up. Sorry for the bad quality, the pic was taken from my buddy's iphone