what TOAD are you gonna pull?
do you already have your tow bar? I picked up a nice BlueOx (aluminum) Adventa tow bar for about 400 bucks (with the optional, but necessary, $450 base plates from a former owner).
heres a nice Falcon bar in Dallas for
$500 as an example (just search for blueox, blue ox or towbar, tow bar).
Heres another one for
$150
I (finally) bought a brake buddy VANTAGE (craigslist) for $250 (about 20% of the cost of a new unit)....it had the remote and the nice carrying bag.
there are some on
EBAY - just to give you an idea of the pricing
heres one in
Dallas - again just to give you an idea of pricing / availability etc.
The thing LOOKED like it hadn't been used at very much, all i had to add buy was a break away switch like this
one (i pieced my own together for about
10 bucks. Trailer dot com has some even
cheaper
I'd love to have the SMI system but then its only good for towing our (JEEP) toad by coach.
w/ the brake buddy (and my tow bar) i can confidently (and safely) tow the jeep behind anything w/ a receiver hitch (ala my F350 etc).
all this said - the ONLY reason I use the supplemental braking system on the
toad is to avoid a liability issue (if my hitch should ever break loose or the grade 70 safety chains and clevis hooks should fail).
