Do our $$$$$ Escalade's not have an integrated brake controller?

[noob]

Guess they realized that wasn’t a make it or break it option for potential buyers. Though I have a 2010 and 2017, I cannot say that is even something I thought of when buying the car. I wanted a comfortable people mover that is tall enough for some slight road flooding down south.

 

[Vector]

I thought he was talking about the newer gen. My bad. Crazy that even the 2007-2014s don’t either. I didn’t know that.

I am, regarding a 2015+

 

[Vector]

They still would have to have a manual brake control somewhere in the dash. As refined as they are there is no getting around that...something like thisView attachment 193777

Maybe this as an alternative?

https://www.amazon.com/Tekonsha-90250-Prodigy-Electronic-Control/dp/B001P0ZA86/ref=cm_wl_huc_item


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[Vector]

Guess they realized that wasn’t a make it or break it option for potential buyers. Though I have a 2010 and 2017, I cannot say that is even something I thought of when buying the car. I wanted a comfortable people mover that is tall enough for some slight road flooding down south.

Then why tout it's towing capacity?
Lets face it, no one is going to tow 8k without brakes functioning on the trailer.
Heck I can see a potential lawsuit for those who assume it is integrated once the 7 way connector from the trailer to the Escalade is inserted.

 

[PG01]

Maybe this as an alternative?

https://www.amazon.com/Tekonsha-90250-Prodigy-Electronic-Control/dp/B001P0ZA86/ref=cm_wl_huc_item


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Personally, when towning something that large, or any trailer that requires electric brakes, i would not trust a wireless setup. It may be fine and work well but not for me.

 

[05alive]

DNW to tow with an escalade.

Towed with the 15 Denali and swore off ever towing anything bigger than a small landscape trailer ever again without a truck. The slop in the pintle smashed the truck around, the mirrors aren't tows so I couldn't see around the trailer, and all in all it wasn't comfortable. It squatted like crazy.

If you can afford a 75k+ truck and need to tow heavy they assume you can afford at least an older 3/4 or 1 ton truck to pull the trailer around.

That's why my father got rid of his SUV and bought a SD. He found himself having to go places and put it in 4wd or needed to pull a trailer and couldn't with his 1/2 ton SUV, and didn't want to beat the truck up doing something it wasn't supposed to do.

 

[EmeryZ28]

I am fairly confident in saying that most Escalade owners do not tow things, especially things that need that brake controller. I am often at the boat ramp and very rarely see Escalades and when I do they are just towing either 1 or 2 high end jet ski's and those trailers do not come with brakes. I have the controller in my Z71 and Tahoe and do not use it. My boat trailer has brakes, but they are controlled by a different system. In order to use that brake controller you need to be towing something pretty large!

 

[yates ™]

DNW to tow with an escalade.

Towed with the 15 Denali and swore off ever towing anything bigger than a small landscape trailer ever again without a truck. The slop in the pintle smashed the truck around, the mirrors aren't tows so I couldn't see around the trailer, and all in all it wasn't comfortable. It squatted like crazy.

If you can afford a 75k+ truck and need to tow heavy they assume you can afford at least an older 3/4 or 1 ton truck to pull the trailer around.

That's why my father got rid of his SUV and bought a SD. He found himself having to go places and put it in 4wd or needed to pull a trailer and couldn't with his 1/2 ton SUV, and didn't want to beat the truck up doing something it wasn't supposed to do.

Towed with Yukons, Denalis, Escalades, and HD Trucks. If you're within the weight limits SUV's tow just fine. With my old Yukon I think I even towed over weight a time or two, once was a 20' car trailer we made sides on and put all my old roof in, pretty sure it was over weight. Tow mirrors are nice but not really needed for most trailers.

I have considered trading in my truck for a newer SUV for family things and still using it to tow my car but then I need the bed for something and just wait to get my wife something new.

 

[05alive]

Towed with Yukons, Denalis, Escalades, and HD Trucks. If you're within the weight limits SUV's tow just fine. With my old Yukon I think I even towed over weight a time or two, once was a 20' car trailer we made sides on and put all my old roof in, pretty sure it was over weight. Tow mirrors are nice but not really needed for most trailers.

I have considered trading in my truck for a newer SUV for family things and still using it to tow my car but then I need the bed for something and just wait to get my wife something new.

My trailers are either equipment trailers way too large for a 1/2 ton, or big box trailers.

I pulled a big stealth box trailer with a pintle, 14 or 16 by 8.5. I couldn't see jack, and the trailer was pushing the truck around when I forgot to hit the manual brake. Even with the gain all the way up it was pushing the truck around. It was just weird. I've pulled the same trailer with dump trucks and hd pickups, and it doesn't push the truck around like it did to the Denali. Wasn't as much slop, or at least it didn't make the truck jump as much on the bigger trucks, probably because they're heavier.

It COULD do it, it wasn't sagging the truck out like crazy or straining to pull, but I wouldn't do it again unless I absolutely had to because it wasn't comfortable. Bumpy and sloppy. Couldn't see.

 

[yates ™]

You're talking about a whole different class of trailer that is too large for any half ton truck or SUV, completely different conversation.