Squeaky Balls

[serin]

So, does anyone know why towballs squeak?
Yes, that was us driving through Coniston last weekend!

Greased or a dry one? Work that out and you might have the answer LOL

exactly, scramble couldn't have put it better!

Its a dry one, (I know of others with greasy balls though!)

have you got your dry one wet or greasy?
it won't work properly if you did

Our dry one is dry.

.....and squeaky.

Very very squeaky, it sounded as though we were murdering a cat all the way home.

Small children were pointing, mothers were covering their babies ears, teenagers were ROFL and we were dying of embarrassment

My FIL has a dry one and I got it all greasy with my caravan LOL that just doesn't sound quite right .

was it (?a trailer) unevenly loaded? too heavy? we have a noseweight checking thingy - looks like a spring that you put your towball on and see whether the weight is ok for the car etc
suspension of the trailer or whatever? [starting random guesses now]

Have you really got a squeaky ball?

== those with dirty minded interpretation Please Do Not Read This ==

is it anything to do with where your erm ball attaches to your erm sticky out bit on the car?

stop it - i told you!!!!

Yes, really squeaky, much worse when we go around corners, not sure if the noise is coming from the ball or the bit that attaches to it or the friction created between the two.

We have got a noseweight gauge but haven't used it for a bit, we take the same stuff each time we go and load it in pretty much the same way.

One of DH friends thinks we should take sand paper to the towball but not sure as haven't heard of this before.

Thanks for your help by the way.

am being of no help whatsoever in fact

i've never heard of taking sandpaper to your ball either sounds a tad worrying to me.
have a look [[http://www.campingandcaravanningclub.co.uk/technicalfaqs/?department=Technical+%2D+Tow+bars%2C+Tow balls+and+stabilisers here] at the second faq (scroll down the page!)

i mean here

oops

Cheers Gigglewitch.