How to Properly Load & Tie-Down a Hot Rod, Race Car, or Other Vehicle on a Tow Trailer 

This video seemed to be more of an ad for the summit vehicle tiedown kit than how to actually properly tie down a vehicle to a trailer.

Pull over every 25 miles to inspect straps 🤣 So much for spending time at the vacation house… by the time we get there it’s time to go back home! 1:58

Starting my business and using trailers and repo lifts this was awesome video thank you.

This voice is the kind I'd expect to say "batteries not included" lol

It looked like the front of that nova had straps going to the sprung part of the car. It would have been good if you pointed out to not do that because the spring compression puts much more stress on the tie downs with every bump you drive over.

Literally did not explain how to do it at all especially for the front haha

Thank you.

Does those straps work for most cars

I drove a Car carrying Semi Trailer ( 8 car ) and if I tied a car like the way you tied that Nova I would have lost my Job

Can’t look past the front bumper fitment of that nova looks like the bumper is leaning back 😂

On second thought maybe I should just tie a logging chain from the core support to the trailer hitch again

GREAT EDUCATION!!!! THANKS FOR SHARING!!!!

Meanwhile you crossed the straps...

What do you do first front or rear?

Never Cross Straps!

Wasn’t very helpful. You didn’t say where to put the straps on the car?

The amount of bad info here is pretty shocking...

I won’t haul any equipment without chains and ratchet boomers. Cross my chains when possible. Hauled heavy too many years.

Wow, crossed the straps in the back AND secured to the body in the front, to possibly allow the hooks to come loose with every bounce on the road...this vid is very dangerous for a novice to go by.

You serious

Nova gang

AND DONT CROSS YOUR STRAPS. If one breaks it pulls the load sideways and loosens up!

DO NOT follow the instruction given in this video. It is incorrect instruction and should be taken down. There is only one correct way to tie a vehicle down for transport and that is using tire slings. Every other way to go about it leaves room for failure. All 4 corners of the vehicle must be tied down. No exceptions and no excuses. When you use tire slings the connection points on the trailer should be a compound angle in relation to the tire so in front and back of each tire but also on the outside. Kind of how the incorrectly attached front straps are angled. this keeps the vehicle from moving front to back but also keeps it from moving laterally. The reason why you do not tie down by the vehicle frame or body is this. Unless you have the straps cranked tight enough to compress the suspension fully (not good for the chassis or the body) the straps can come undone. imagine hitting a pot hole and the pot hole is deep enough to cause the suspension of the car to compress, this will slack the tie down straps and they can come undone. Whats worse is the stress the straps receive when the can bounces back up, the "slam" caused by with can exceed the load ratings of the straps and even worse it can exceed the lateral load ratings of whatever part the strap is attached to on the car. The car also has the ability to shift or move when there is slack on the straps. For those that do not understand what "unsprung" means. Unsprung is any part that moves when the car is bounced. So if you bounce a vehicle you do not see the tires moving up and down (crazy hydraulic cars excluded). If you have an older vehicle and it has a sold axle as seen in the video if you bounce the car you do not see the axle moving up and down. DO NOT do what they did to strap down the rear of the car. Wrapping around a solid axle is a no no, if the car moves laterally the straps can slide. DO NOT attach to a control arm. The angle of the control arm changes as a vehicle is bounced and this can allow the straps to shift. The only place on a vehicle that you can be 100% sure does not move with the bouncing of it is the tires. DO NOT hook onto or wrap around a wheel through it's spokes. The wheel can rotate causing slack in a strap. If you care about the vehicle you are towing, and you care about your life and the lives of the people on the road around you do not do what is seen in this video. Just to cover the bases here. front engine vehicles get pulled onto the trailer node first, mid/rear engine vehicles get pulled onto the trailer back first. DO NOT have more weight in back of the trailer tires then is in front of it equal weight is a no go also. You need to see the tow vehicle squat a little as the vehicle is loaded. There is a single exception to this rule, a 2 vehicle trailer. Due to the length of those trailers and how much weight is already on the tongue you may need to have the first car pulled onto the trailer flipped around 180° to reduce the amount of load being placed on the tow vehicle.

Thanks for explaining nothing...

Well that wasn't helpful at all

This should be "how to look after tie down straps" thumbs down.

...every 25 miles?...