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...except you would not have hit any of the blue barrels right Andy

Exactly how our school drop offs are...my kids are never late

Greetings! I finally have a towing report :) it's been an awesome summer and We've towed roughly 1200 miles to Yosemite and the sequoias. The trip included the Cuesta grade which is a 3 mile 7% grade, the Grapevine (5% for 5 miles and 5% downhill on the other side for another 5 miles), and the Old Priest road which is a 5% grade for 5 miles with crazy switch backs. On the way home and climbing back up the grapevine the weather got ugly and we got hit with a crazy thunderstorm and wind. I didn't weigh before I left but I'm guessing I had about 8200lbs. The NV did awesome! Plenty of power up the grades and I was able to maintain 60ish going up. I calculated that I was around 8.9 MPG. Question regarding downhill towing. Dropping to 1st and 2nd ok to preserve brakes? I screamed the crap out of the engine. I avoided these grades for many years with my Nissan Titan and Weekend a Warrior set up. Finally got brave enough to do it but I was scared to death going down hill. On the windy old priest grade I placed the Van on 1st and just coasted down hill at 30-35 mph and barely touched the brakes. On the other down hill grades I placed the van in 2nd or 3rd to keep it at 50ish. Barley touched brakes. Other than that..awesome awesome awesome Van and towing experience.

Greetings! Here's a pic of our set up. A little distorted cause I needed to take a panoramic picture to capture the long set up :) We're a family of 7 and absolutely love the van. We bought the van last summer and the trailer just a few months ago. We've only taken it out on two weekend trips and a few beach trips but we're gearing up to go out for a full week starting this coming Monday. Can't wait!!!

Update on steering wheel groan/friction for those still having the issue. Ive had the sound develop and I requested the dealership to take a look at it. They traced the noise to a clock spring from inside the steering wheel. They had to order the part so haven't had a chance to test it yet. I'm stoked though cause that's one annoying sound.

I just picked up a Tekonsha Nissan brake control harness with plug and play on both ends. No wiring required. Haven't installed it yet. Amazon says this is not for the 2015 nissans but etrailer.com and the local RV dealer that I got it from says it does. part#3050-P

Update: Rewired a new harness and I was still getting erratic readings from the P2 (goes from C to NC to 0.0 to -.-) Went ahead and bought a new P2 cause I'm impatient and everything looks good. I didn't get a chance to pull the trailer to see if the S.H error message comes on but I'm hopeful that I found the culprit as being the old P2. I can actually hear the brakes actuate when I press the pedal now :) I called Tekonsha and I will need to send them the old one to get a new one. Can't just go to a dealer close by :( Oh well, at least I'll have one for both my Titan and NV.

Thanks everyone. I started troubleshooting again last night and pulled the biggest rookie mistake. I wired a new longer harness to the travel trailer to get rid of the need for an extension. First wiring job ever and it was easy peasy....until I went to plug it into the van. I quickly found out that I bought and affixed the male 7 pin connector onto the trailer instead of the female connector

Thanks for the replies. I used the wiring harness that came with the TV and wired it to the P2 harness. The set up/connections was actually used with my other TV (Nissan Titan) for ~5 years. There was only one time about a year ago where the clicking sound occurred non stop and drained my batteries. I replaced the battery and the issue seemed to correct itself and it never happened again. I took that same harness and brake controller and attached it to the harness in the NV when I bought it. The NV also came with its own harness so during troubleshooting I swapped out the harness and the issue remained. Because of this I'm pretty certain that the wiring is correct. Chris, is there a way to check if the controller is faulty short of buying another or connecting to another trailer? Thanks!

Greetings, Hoping someone has had similar brake issues and can help me trouble shoot. I apologize for the book below :) TT: 2016 heartland north trail 33bkss TV: 2015 Nissan NV3500 tow packag Brake controller: tekonsha prodigy P2 Whats happening: while driving the brake controller cuts out and gives me an S.H error message. Sometimes the error comes on when I turn but goes away when I'm pulling straight and the brakes function just fine. Sometimes, the P2 doesn't read anything at all but stays at 0.0. When parked and pressing on the brakes, sometimes I get readings on the P2 right away and sometimes there's a 3-5 sec delay prior to getting a reading that the brakes are being applied. Sometimes when I press on the brakes there's a clicking sound coming from underneath the steering column. I drove the TT 200 miles from the dealer to home with no issues. The next day I made adjustments to my pro pride hitch and took it for a test drive. Did well for the first 10 miles of back roads. I took a right turn and was about to enter the freeway when I noticed the P2 giving me the S.H signal. luckily I was able to get out of the freeway and limped home with no brakes. I did stop to check the set up and it's possible that my brake harness was riding low and was bouncing on the ground during turns

Finally picked up my Heartland North Trail 33BKSS last Thursday. Towed it 180 miles to get back home and the NV did great! Unfortunately the TT will have to sit for a while :( We missed the window of opportunity to take it out on its maiden voyage. Gonna be busy the next few weekends...but maybe mid May.

Wohooo! Just signed the docs for a 2016 Heartland North Trail 33BKSS. My hitch comes in this Monday and I'll probably pick it up on Friday. Super excited! Thank you all again for chiming in. I'll post pictures soon.

Haha. I know right! My wife says the same thing. She's ready to have her husband back and participate in family activities instead of looking at specs and trailers 24/7. We found the floor plan we like. Just can't find any close to us. Getting there though. I'll have a tow report soon enough

Greetings! Ran across these numbers while looking at Nissan NV specs (See attached). Does this mean that if its dead weight the max tongue wt is 870lbs however if you have a weight distribution hitch you can have up to 1305lbs of tongue weight? Please say yes please say yes :)

Andy, I will admit that when I had severe sway it was mostly because of the way I loaded the bikes in the toy hauler. Once I got that dialed in towing was a lot better. However, there was still a significant improvement when I switched to the equalizer hitch. I can't say I can technically explain the reason but the same truck, toy hauler, and load had no sway with the equalizer. Even when getting passed big trucks or experiencing heavy wind.