Update: The Tekonsha Primus that I used for 2,475 miles of towing worked great. Unfortunately I will be returning it to the store, because it is too late to return my broken P3. But, the good news is that the P3 has a lifetime warranty and Tekonsha has told me to mail it back to them and they will send me back a new unit.
The brake controller issue was a crappy start to a jinxed trip. The day after my brake controller failed, the wife, the kids, the Tundra and the 4k lb fleetwood camper were doing ~ 75-80 MPH down I-95 South 10-20 miles South of the North Carolina / South Carolina state line ("South of the Border") when all of the sudden my speed dropped to about 65 MPH. Looked out my side view and realized that my camper tire had a blowout
. Happy to say that everything handled great and we were able to safely pull into the shoulder to change the tire. Unfortunately it was 102 degrees outside and I had to turn of the Tundra for over an hour why the wife and kids melted inside. The grass on the side of I-95 was all the way up to the bottom of my doors and very dry.... I was afraid I would of started a fire if I left the engine running.
At the end of our camping, the day we left Jeckyll Island GA..... I was cranking down the pop-up and the lift system failed and the camper top fell for the last 4 feet
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What a crappy experience!!!
But, we did have a great time camping during the week and on the way out of GA I was able to have a local tire shop install brand new radials on my camper that I had ordered when we arrived in town. When I arrived at tires plus, I backed the camper in and they lifted the entire camper up off the ground while still attached to the Tundra
..... I almost crapped my pants. But the Tundra didn't seem to care one bit.... she barely squatted. In retrospect.... I should have snapped a pic to share with everyone.... but the camera was all packed up.