bluemoongaffer
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I have. Towing a Vauxhall Viva on a substantial four-wheeled car trailer behind a TR7 (not a good choice and would be illegal now).
The trailer started swaying and, as Searush said, slowing made it worse, so I accelerated slowly.
I had some friends who engaged in caravan stage rallying who reckoned that accelerating was the thing to do.
Wrong. The swaying is a resonance. The heavier outfit I was towing just took over the plot until I could see we were in trouble with the trailer appearing at one side and then the other.
I was on a very quiet dual carriageway (it was a Sunday morning) so decided to brake hard when the trailer came across to the offside and hope the whole lot would slither to a jack-knife sort of halt.
It kind of did that although the whole outfit spun and we ended up facing the way we had come from.
I managed to do a multi-point turn and we carried on.
Since then I regard any swaying as an early warning of doom and slow very gently until things settle down.
TR7 and Vauxhall Viva. Those were the days. I digress. We had a TR8 once, USA spec. Very like driving a speedboat - all grunt and plenty of wallowing around