Travel Trailer weight vs vehicle hauling
I have a 2014 Ford Flex with the towing packing that allows us to tow up to 4500lbs. We are interested in purchasing Forest River Rockwood Mini Lite 2306 which says the UVW is 3890 and the GVWR says T...
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Your rating for "up to 4500 lbs" means ---- It is rated to tow 4500 lbs under perfect conditions. Those perfect conditions do not include passengers, pets, or cargo. As you add passenger / cargo weight, your available payload AND remaining tow capacity are going down, pound for pound.
If you put 700 lbs of people, pets, and cargo in the vehicle, it's max tow capacity is reduced to 3800 lbs. If you add a weight distributing hitch, that will take another 100 lbs.
Your Flex has a rating for what it can pull (up to 4500 lbs), a rating for combined truck / trailer weight, a rating for max weight on the Flex itself, and a rating for what the Flex can carry (that number should be on a sticker on drivers door post). If you load up on what it has to carry, you have to reduce the weight it has to pull. It can't carry a full load and pull max weight at the same time.
Some trailer sales people, will not even show you a unit that is too much for your tow vehicle. Some, are clueless about towing and will sell you anything you want to buy. Once you drag that thing off their lot, it's no longer their problem.
If you put 700 lbs of people, pets, and cargo in the vehicle, it's max tow capacity is reduced to 3800 lbs. If you add a weight distributing hitch, that will take another 100 lbs.
Your Flex has a rating for what it can pull (up to 4500 lbs), a rating for combined truck / trailer weight, a rating for max weight on the Flex itself, and a rating for what the Flex can carry (that number should be on a sticker on drivers door post). If you load up on what it has to carry, you have to reduce the weight it has to pull. It can't carry a full load and pull max weight at the same time.
Some trailer sales people, will not even show you a unit that is too much for your tow vehicle. Some, are clueless about towing and will sell you anything you want to buy. Once you drag that thing off their lot, it's no longer their problem.
