Diplomat Towing Jeep - Tow System Suggestions - RV-Dreams Community Forum

mlguy · RV-Dreams Community Member

Diplomat Towing Jeep - Tow System Suggestions

Jim01 · RV-Dreams Family Member

Mike,

I'm not familiar with the Jeep, but your owners manual should tell you if it's towable 4 down. Maybe someone else on the forum can help.

As for Tow Bars, We have used a Roadmaster for the last 12 years, and have had very good service out it them. We just bought a new one because the old was was getting very worn. The old one had well over 100,000 towing miles on it, and we probably could have had it rebuilt, but went with the new one instead.

To me it seems like Roadmaster and Blue Ox are the 2 brands that most RVers use, but that's not to say that there's anything wrong with the other brands.

Travel safe,

Jim

Jomilt · RV-Dreams Family Member

We tow our Jeep with the Blue Ox. It helped that we had the tow bar, and only had to purchase the base plate for our particular Jeep.

Be SURE and check if YOUR Jeep is towable! Not all are. Blue Ox can tell you if it is or not.

Blue Ox also likes for you to bring your towbar to them when you can and they go though it and check it out.. at no cost. They did ours and told us to tell other customers of this service.

Happy RVing!

bjoyce · RV-Dreams Family Member

We are also happy with our Blue Ox tow bar but also agree that Roadmaster makes good ones also. Blue Ox is very helpful, goes to many large rallies and has a free campground in Nebraska by the plant.

We bought a Brake Buddy Vantage Select braking system last summer and are very happy with it. The current price is $1085 with free shipping from PPL Motorhomes is $2 less than we paid. It works for us and the only installation was running the breakaway and that took me less than an hour. Since you have a diesel motorhome with air brakes you might be happiest with a braking system that connects to those brakes, like
M & G Engineering's System. That does require more installation. With such a system your Jeep brakes will go on with the motorhome brakes.
We had used braking systems from Blue Ox before, but our experience is that braking systems are not their strong suit. When we went for a new system when the old one died we decided we wanted to modify our 2002 CRV as little as possible since we plan on replacing it in a couple years. If the CRV was newer we would have thought of installing the M &G system, which is something I would pay someone else to do based on my skills.