J2807_202002 Performance Requirements for Determining Tow-Vehicle Gross Combination Weight Rating and Trailer Weight Rating

Revised

02/13/2020

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Issuing Committee
Scope
Content
This document establishes minimum performance criteria at GCWR and calculation methodology to determine tow-vehicle TWR for passenger cars, multipurpose passenger vehicles, and trucks. This includes all vehicles up to 14000 pounds GVWR.
Rationale
Content
Some of the tires specified in Table 1 have been discontinued and are no longer available. Specifying steering wheel angle gradient as an alternative to understeer gradient eliminates the need to measure the steering ratio and makes it easier to deal with systems that modify the front wheel angle relative to the steering wheel angle and vehicles that steer the rear wheels. There is now a minimum temperature specification for the sway damping test since lower temperatures increase sway damping. The maximum equivalent tongue length (ETL) for trailer K has been corrected.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/J2807_202002
Pages
30
Citation
SAE International Recommended Practice, Performance Requirements for Determining Tow-Vehicle Gross Combination Weight Rating and Trailer Weight Rating, SAE Standard J2807_202002, Revised February 2020, Issued April 2008, https://doi.org/10.4271/J2807_202002.
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Publisher
Published
Feb 13, 2020
Product Code
J2807_202002
Content Type
Recommended Practice
Status
Revised
Language
English