Scared and Excited Newbie!

camp-n-family wrote:
The Sequoia is a more than capable tow vehicle for a decent sized tt. There are many trailers out there that would meet the OPs needs and be well within the TVs ratings and capabilities. To suggest they need a new vehicle when they only have a $4k budget and what they have already is more than capable is ridiculous. Just another you can't tow anything with less than a 1 ton mentality.

I'm unclear if you are referring to me or not but I'll bite. Maybe it seemed as if I was suggesting a new tow vehicle, but honestly I was not so apologies to the OP if I made it seem that way.

What I was suggesting was to be careful in selection of TT with regards to TV. It seems to me that buying a new TV or trading the current one in, isn't on the OP's list of things to do right away. Nor was it on mine. However, I knew that risk going in, and decided that we could do it as is, knowing that if worse comes to worse, I'll upgrade.

Not everyone has the ability. If I didn't have that ability, buying a trailer the size of what I did would have been a non-starter. Or you would have seen a slightly used new trailer on the market right away, lol. And my trailer clocked in at right around 4500 dry (well according to the website).

I'm not saying go 1-ton or go home. I'm saying that when you might be stretching the limits, sometimes things behave like their limits are stretched. Sometimes they don't. It's kinda tough to say to the guy with the ad on rv trader, "hey guy, let me take that TT for a pre-sale camping trip 300 miles away so I can be sure my vehicle can handle it".