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We towed a Mini Cooper S for two years with an American Car Dolly and had no problems with it, other than the dolly mounted brake controller being too sensitive. We had the gain set at minimum and the brakes would grab at very low speeds, and lock up on gravel. We fixed that problem by using Tekonsha controller we had left over from the trailer days. I suspect that the Mini was probably too light and the brakes may have been adjusted tight.

The dolly was perfect for the Mini. The included fully removable steel ramps were low enough that we didn’t have a problem loading the Mini (which is a very low ground clearance car) and we hardly knew the Mini was back there. We did chose to drive around with two spare tires - one for Mini and one for the dolly as we do end up crossing some pretty isolated territory. Never needed either, but they filled up what storage we had in the Mini.

Service was great. Gary personally delivers his dollies to your door and goes over how to load and secure your car with you at delivery. It’s a very well built dolly and can handle much larger vehicles. He uses Dexter axles so it came with EZ Lube bearings and electric brakes.

We recently traded the Mini for a Jeep Cherokee Trailhawk. Mini was blast to drive, but had become just too small and DW really didn’t like loading and unloading it. So now we will be towing 4 down and the dolly will be going on the market.