trailer brakes

Yep, You are right, the P2! Wonder why when I called about the Voyager they didn't recommend that? I really would like to mount it under the seat!

 

I have to agree with @htgreen3 out of sight is not recommended , you want eyes on that puppy, your life could depend on it, as when you active the brakes manually it is usually (not always) because the trailer is doing something unusual like swaying around at high speed, or pushing your truck fwd, like towards stopped traffic.

 

To each his own, I guess underseat is fine for you, if you can reach it easily, but I would want something better than velcro. what if your seat pushed it from where you had mounted it, and your trailer is doing the death sway at highway speeds, just sayin'....

 

Would you velcro your actual brake pedal to anything?

 

Have you actually checked out the velcro that you can get at any Walmart these days? I almost need two hands to pull it loose. It's very well held in place.

I can reach it easily and I do not need to be able to see it to know how to actuate the manual braking slider. It's fine where it is, and much better than somewhere I'd have to move my knee to put a hand on it.

Velcro on my brake pedal? That's just, odd. Are you trying to make an analogy of some kind? Please explain.

 

Generally unless descending a hill, you use the manual trailer brake in an emergency, like when the trailer is losing control on the freeway or its pushing you forward like into the rear end of another vehicle or into an intersection. I wouldnt velcro (no matter how good the velcro is) a crucial piece of safety equipment responsible for slowing down a 3 ton trailer to anything, much less out of sight. What I'm saying is would you trust that velcro with your life? Would you velcro your actual brake pedal in place? Not much difference. One again just my opinion, but that's crap advice to a noob asking questions on the interwebs. You might be willing to take that risk but I for one wouldn't, and wouldnt recommend that to anyone.

 

If the trailer is pushing me forward, like into the rear end of another vehicle--and the friggin' brakes of the truck, which are actuating the brakes of the trailer through the controller can't stop me, you really think pushing the manual slider on the brake controller is going to make any difference? Seriously, if I've allowed myself to be driving so fast in heavy traffic that I'm about to rear-end somebody while pulling a trailer, the location of the trailer brake controller is the least of my worries. I've already f**ked up.

I think you're working yourself into a lather for nothing. The velcro is very secure. The controller does not move. It might as well be screwed down. And, there really is no analogy to putting velcro on my truck's brake pedal. That just plain makes no sense.

 

Nobody's in a lather, it's just my opinion