Towing weight limit
I have a 37 foot 2001 fleet wood discovery with the 325 CAT engine. The manual states that the hitch will handle 5000 pounds max with 500 pounds tongue weight. I am trying to find a toyhauler and the...
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ferndaleflyer wrote:
I think your question is about a toy hauler not the DP you mentioned. I have no idea what my 32ft Pace tri axel trailer with a door car, atv, generator, etc weighs but I have towed it over 100,000mi behind my 40ft Winnebago DP with a factory hitch and never had any sign of a problem. I check everything closely and often. What I find on this site is often more what you can't do rather than what you can do by experts that have never done it...But I see 7000+lb trailers all over the race tracks many being towed by 1/2 ton pickups and class C motorhomes which I doubt have a class V hitch..Just my thoughts.
Advising someone to ignore and exceed the limits of their equipment is pretty irresponsible. It's likely you have a 10k hitch on yours in which you probably are fine. With a 5k hitch you probably wouldn't be.
