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Extra Puma trailer camper specs, please.

JNHEscher

JNHEscher

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Got quite a bit off of here - https://recreationalvehicles.info/2005-palomino-puma/2005-palomino-puma-brochure.pdf

Fam and I are planning to get one from friends of a mutual friend. Right now, I want to be certain of the wheel bolt pattern. I'll be taking a couple (or all four) of our trailer tires along just as spares. I'll soak up any other specs you guys have. Best as we can tell, it's a 2005ish.



Copy pasta of a pic I was given -

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Chevy_man said:
Should be 5 lug... :flipoff2:

If it's like every other camper on the road it'll have a really odd size and nothing else will fit.
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Sounds ideal :flipoff2::laughing:

At least the wheel diameter is the same. Trailer brakes would be cool. Can't tell if it has any.
 
It should probably have 2 axle brakes.

Pulling it with A-Salt truck?
 
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I shouldn't be surprised, but it still blows my mind that RV makers would skip putting brakes on one axle to save a couple bucks. Wild.

I'd just turn down the trailer brake controller but would rather have brakes with too much capability than not enough :homer:
 
Otto M@n said:
I shouldn't be surprised, but it still blows my mind that RV makers would skip putting brakes on one axle to save a couple bucks. Wild.

I'd just turn down the trailer brake controller but would rather have brakes with too much capability than not enough :homer:
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Many car haulers are the same.
 
Otto M@n said:
I shouldn't be surprised, but it still blows my mind that RV makers would skip putting brakes on one axle to save a couple bucks. Wild.

I'd just turn down the trailer brake controller but would rather have brakes with too much capability than not enough :homer:
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Honestly, why would you want brakes on both axles for an RV?

They’re constructed really crappy, but I never heard breaking being an issue? Plus… Another set of breaks to maintain.???

If I was building one from scratch, or designing one from scratch, I wouldn’t have brakes on both axles.
 
grumpy356 said:
Honestly, why would you want brakes on both axles for an RV?

They’re constructed really crappy, but I never heard breaking being an issue? Plus… Another set of breaks to maintain.???

If I was building one from scratch, or designing one from scratch, I wouldn’t have brakes on both axles.
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cause you are going to put a family of 4 in a four runner and pull a overweight RV in a overweight 4 runner across country....:flipoff2:
 
grumpy356 said:
Honestly, why would you want brakes on both axles for an RV?

They’re constructed really crappy, but I never heard breaking being an issue? Plus… Another set of breaks to maintain.???

If I was building one from scratch, or designing one from scratch, I wouldn’t have brakes on both axles.
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Because my 3/4 ton diesel ram, which is rated to tow almost 17klbs, still wouldn't give me the confidence to stop my toy hauler that only weighs 10k in a panic if it only had brakes on one axle. The exhaust brake is useless in a panic stop.

You would need less brake maintenance if you had twice the amount of braking power to take a load off the one set :flipoff2:
 
grumpy356 said:
Honestly, why would you want brakes on both axles for an RV?

They’re constructed really crappy, but I never heard breaking being an issue? Plus… Another set of breaks to maintain.???

If I was building one from scratch, or designing one from scratch, I wouldn’t have brakes on both axles.
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:lmao:
 
JNHEscher said:
Right, but I'm pretty sure it's been parked for about 4 years. As I've told my wife, I would like to take spares regardless.
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If its been parked that long the brakes probably wont work anyway. Luckily they are pretty easy to diagnose and replace.
 
Otto M@n said:
I shouldn't be surprised, but it still blows my mind that RV makers would skip putting brakes on one axle to save a couple bucks. Wild.
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Yabut, the average consumer, seeing 2 visibly "identical" new campers, will take Brand Y for $13,299 over Brand X for $13,499. We're not the average consumer; we obsess on the mechanical specs and gloss over the faux-wood comparison on the shiny sales brochure.


grumpy356 said:
Honestly, why would you want brakes on both axles for an RV?
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Otto M@n said:
Because my 3/4 ton diesel ram, which is rated to tow almost 17klbs, still wouldn't give me the confidence to stop my toy hauler that only weighs 10k in a panic if it only had brakes on one axle. The exhaust brake is useless in a panic stop.
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Also because panic stops sometimes occur on curves, and a trailer that can actually pull on the hitch under braking (or at least push a lot less) is less likely to upset the ass end of the tow vehicle and push it out into a jackknife condition. Add in wet roads or debris limiting traction, and a trailer that can do its own braking becomes a godsend.
 
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