Imagine this situation:
A new owner (who has never towed a travel trailer) has a vehicle, any vehicle, goes to an RV lot and buys a trailer "recommended by the salesman".. They close the loan, hitch his new trailer to his vehicle and he tows it home.
He has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to compare his towing experience... To him, it feels "like there's a trailer behind me"... He encounters sway, wind buffeting, slow accelleration, the "push/pull" of passing 18 wheelers, motorhomes and busses, and accepts that as "must be how it's supposed to tow" and goes on towing.... Occasionally with "white knucke episodes", enduring the slow accelleration, downshifts to 2nd gear on hills and 30MPH climbs with the temperature gauge approaching the red line while the tachometer is "at the red line in 2nd gear....
To him, "it's always been that way so it must be normal".....
Now, he trades his vehicle for a larger, heavier, more powerful vehicle... (pick one or two or all three)....
He hitches his trailer to the new vehicle, experiences a more stable and secure trailer response, he accellerates to "merge speed" much faster, his trailer tracks behind his new vehicle without any sway or buffeting in sidewinds, the first 18 wheeler he sees in his side mirror "barrelling toward him" passes and he only feels a slight push/pull, but the trailer is "solidly behind his vehicle"....
THE LIGHT BULB GOES ON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's when he suddenly realizes what we've been telling him for the past 6 months or 6 years. His previous vehicle was "Inadequate for his size trailer" even though, it was all he's ever towed, so to him "it was normal towing"....
Only after there's "something to compare it to, will a new, novice RV'er realize what we're talking about... Until then, in his mind, he's convinced that "his vehicle" is "perfectly fine with his trailer", until