Chevrolet Malibu 2007 Especificações descarregar pdf (Página 334)

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If You Do Decide To Pull A Trailer

If you do, here are some important points:

• There are many different laws, including speed

limit restrictions, having to do with trailering.

Make sure your rig will be legal, not only

where you live but also where you’ll be driving.

A good source for this information can be

state or provincial police.

• Consider using a sway control. You can ask

a hitch dealer/retailer about sway controls.

• Don’t tow a trailer at all during the ﬁrst

1,000 miles (1 600 km) your new vehicle

is driven. Your engine, axle or other parts

could be damaged.

• Then, during the ﬁrst 500 miles (800 km) that

you tow a trailer, don’t drive over 50 mph

(80 km/h) and don’t make starts at full throttle.

This helps your engine and other parts of

your vehicle wear in at the heavier loads.

• Obey speed limit restrictions when towing a

trailer. Don’t drive faster than the maximum

posted speed for trailers, or no more than

55 mph (90 km/h), to save wear on your

vehicle’s parts.

Three important considerations have to do

with weight:

• the weight of the trailer,

• the weight of the trailer tongue

• and the total weight on your vehicle’s tires.

Weight of the Trailer

How heavy can a trailer safely be?

It should never weigh more than 1,000 lbs (450 kg).

But even that can be too heavy.

It depends on how you plan to use your rig.

For example, speed, altitude, road grades, outside

temperature and how much your vehicle is used

to pull a trailer are all important. It can also depend

on any special equipment that you have on your

vehicle, and the amount of tongue weight the

vehicle can carry. See “Weight of the Trailer

Tongue” later in this section for more information.

Maximum trailer weight is calculated assuming

only the driver is in the tow vehicle and it has

all the required trailering equipment. The weight of

additional optional equipment, passengers and

cargo in the tow vehicle must be subtracted from

the maximum trailer weight.

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