Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:21:08 -0400
Reply-To:     mcneely4@COX.NET
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject:      Re: [NVC] Need alignment sight to help with backing trailer
Comments: To: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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Back up cameras are used on vehicles as small as or even smaller than a
vanagon and your trailer.  With a Prius, in order to get side air bags,
one must buy a package that includes a back up camera.  Why?  Maybe to
provide safety when little kids and pets are around, but mainly to
provide bucks to Toyota, I believe.  But, since that was the only way to
get the air bags, I got it.

Dave Mc


On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:12 AM , Rocket J Squirrel wrote:

> A back up camera? For a little rig like this? Wow -- that would be
> totally
> weak.
>
> --
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
> Bend, OR
> KG6RCR
>
>
>
> On 9/28/2009 6:47 AM Robert Fisher wrote:
>
>> All things considered (meaning mostly Squirrelly himself), perhaps a
>> back up
>> camera would be the way to go.
>>
>> Cya,
>> Robert
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On
>> Behalf Of
>> Allan Streib
>> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 6:17 AM
>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>> Subject: Re: [NVC] Need alignment sight to help with backing trailer
>>
>> That's good to help you align the hitch when you're hooking up the
>> trailer
>> (and don't have a helper).
>>
>> I don't think it would help much with backing up: since it's right at
>> the
>> hitch point, it will always be more or less in the center of your
>> view no
>> matter what the trailer is doing.
>>
>> I second the idea of a kid's bike flag, long fiberglas rod with a
>> day-glo
>> orange pennant at the top.  Either one at the center-rear, or one on
>> each
>> rear corner of the trailer.
>>
>> Allan
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:32 -0400, "Kenneth Lewis" wrote:
>>> Here ya go:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Displayitem.taf?itemnumber=95684
>>>
>>> Let me know how it works.
>>>
>>> Ken
>>