I have never broken a tie down in over 30 years of caring bikes and quads. The only time that one did break and this may be what happened to him was that we took the strape over the angle rall. The movement of the quad going down the road in the trailercut the strape were it went over the piece of steel. So hook the tie down some place so that it does not rest against any of the angle iron on the side of the trailer.

 

Throw away those trouble-sum straps and buy an atv lock made by fulton. buy it from bass pro shops for about $69.00!!!!!!

 

DM1,
Are the straps going across any edges? I use heavy duty 1" straps (two) to tie down my Kodiak and haven't had any problems. So if you keep breaking them I would have to assume that the straps are rubbing against something.

 

My experience. I've hauled stock cars, derby cars, and street rods countless miles. I've had the same set of 3" nylon ratchet straps for at least 10 years and never a problem. One thing I do tho, is always tie the thing down using the back axle and lower control arms in the front! I never pre-load the straps with the suspension of the vehicle! The way I see it is, if the ATV weighs in at the 500 lb mark, I weigh close to 200 lbs and my weight does not compress the suspension on the ATV. So I'm guessing it takes close to 400lbs of pull with a tie down to even come close to compressing the suspension on the ATV. So do the math, 500 lbs ATV....400lbs to preload the suspension...close to 1/2 ton on the straps the way I see it. And at that I don't think the suspension is totally loaded out. I just know from experience that I never tie my ATV down unless going around the rear axle and lower front A-arms. Just my view on this subject. Happy trails.

 

I agree with NickB, why compress the suspension of a quad? Where is it going to go? I use the cheap 1000lb capacity tiedowns, and I have never had a problem with them at all, I tie down of the rear axle and front A-arm. This way the only tension the strap sees is what I put on it, or when the bike rolls from front to back, the force of the suspension is eliminated. I do however on my motorcycle compress the suspension to trailer it, that is the only way I know how with it, and have not had any problems with it either. Good luck...

 

Never had a nylon strap fail unless it was rubbing something such as a rail.

 

I use 4 tie downs. 2 front, 2 rear. They never broke (1").
Something's wrong with you...or your straps.
Think about it. Is it better two 20$ a month a 40$ strap for 1 year?

But check out where they go...I never broke any strap.