Has anyone tried transporting their F355 with a Uhual? Ummmm

If I'm not mistaken aren't the u-haul inner rails 5" in height?

Should be able to get it on there if you get 4 2x4's(or 2 2x8's) on each side(length of the trailer)....hold em together with 1x4 on each end and one in the middle....you can also cut you some wooden wheel chocks and screw them into the 2x's.

 

I rented a tandem axle auto trailer. Initially I thought it was pretty long, but it worked extremely well.

I had the car almost all the way forward on the trailer and the engine / rear wheels were directly over the axles of the trailer. Very stable and easy to tow.

An added benefit was the fact that once the car was forward, the doors were forward of the wheel arches so you could open them up instead of having to crawl out the window.
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In all honesty that looks more like an equipment then a car trailer....

You can pick up a nice car trailer for what $1500 bucks...

 

Where are you located?

 

+1 on what Bruce said. Just a little shopping at Home Depot and you've solved your problem. Plus, when you're done hauling the car you can re-use the wood for some garage shelving!

 

I was recently looking into this, and came across this on the UHAUL site:
** Notice the "tire stop" pics. **


http://www.uhaul.com/Articles/Tips/118/Transporting-vehicles-with-low-ground-clearance

 

Looks like a car trailer to me, unless you are talking about an enclosed trailer.

 

This is the trailer that I own. Its a PJ 18 foot. Perfect for hauling cars mine has a 4 foot dove tail and extended ramps I have hauled Lamborghinis, Ferraris and street rods with no issue. It only cost me $1600 new. I only use it a couple of times a year but it is well worth having it.

Back to task at hand though I would put down a couple of 2x8s as said before and you should be good.

 

I hauled my car from Long Island, NY all the way up to Montreal Canada with a standard uhaul car tow platform. A 7 hour drive and had zero issues.

Obviously I needed some wood to get the car on and off the platform but it went great. 4 pieces of 2 X 8 measuring 4' each. I also had 2 16 inch pieces of 2 X 8 for the front wheels to be elevated and avoid touching the front lip of the trailer. That's it.

My only small mistake is that I should have also put some small 16 inch pieces under the back wheels which would have elevated the car an extra 1.5 inches and allowed me to open and close the door without requiring special "cirque du soleil" acrobatics like I did but, other than that, it went fine.

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The loading is wrong. The car needs to be backwords on the trailer like all the middle and back engine cars.

 

Treedee3d has it loaded fine. The front end of the car is all the way to the front of the trailer and the center of mass of the car is just above the rear axle. With most 1/2 ton and 3/4 ton pickup trucks with a class 3 hitch, usually the recommended tongue weight is somewhere around 800 pounds especially when you don't have a load leveling hitch. I'm sure he had at least that amount or even higher tongue weight. Any more tongue weight and the steering on the truck will be too light.

 

Like I said it was a long drive, half of it was night time driving, drove in the very swirly highway and had absolutely zero issues the way I had it loaded.

I am also guilty of hauling it above the speed limit and hit 125 km/h for a long period of time. Sure it was a little stupid but it was a long day and my judgement was a little impaired.

Turning, braking, accelerating....all super smooth and it actually felt like I was driving the pickup by itself with no trailer on it at all.

 

Hate to ruin your Circus training, but did you realize the fender on the driver's side of the trailer folds down? Those rubber toggles you see at the front and rear of the metal fender pop off and the entire fender swings down so you can hop into your car. Don't even have to do a Dukes of Hazzard window dive.
I used the same trailor for my 348. U Haul has pretty good instructions on their web site about hauling low ground clearance cars on that trailer. but they that don't talk about those rails up the center. Thank heavens one of the guys where I bought my car saw the problem before we loaded, so the boards we used to get the car up the ramps, we then moved to the body of the trailer to keep the car up off those rails.

 

Yes I realized that the fender folds down. However, it was towards the end of my trip!!!! I felt pretty silly...

Anyway, even with the fender folded down, the door still touches it when you open it. Had I put an piece of wood under the back wheel and given it that extra inch, I would have been able to open the door all the way. It was a small 1 inch difference that could have made my life a lot easier

 

I started reading this thread on the title which promised to be regarding one of those disasters waiting to happen. Nice to see it wasn't. ;

 

I hauled my 348 600 miles on one of those uhaul trailers. I need the wood under the wheels while it was on the trailer as well as 6 foot runs of 2x10 to get it on the trailer to keep things from hitting.
wouldn't do it again unless it was absolutely necessary.

 

I know the trailer that I was given when renting from uHaul was almost new and in perfect condition so perhaps that explains why my transport went so well and everyone else on here is having issues. Like I said, I drove it hard and fast, even in the rain at high speed on the highway and zero problems. I would do it again in a heartbeat.