2015 Yukon TT Weight Help

The 500 lbs of gear will most likely be taken out of the Tahoe and put in the trailer so figure passengers and fuel for the payload and that will let you know about max tongue weight.

I pull a 7k # trailer with an older Tahoe out of the Denver area and almost all in the mountains of CO. 2 to 3k miles per year. Your Tahoe will pull the trailer you are describing just fine IF you do your part. The bigger the trailer the more you are going to have to work while driving. Not just put it in D and go.

As has been said you need to keep the RPMs up while climbing but it's not a bid deal and soon your family won't notice 3500 to 4000 rpms. Use the manual gear shift to hold it in the gear/ rpm range that will work for you and don't let it shift every time you level out for a few seconds or let off the gas a little. The hills aren't that long and if you slow down it's not that big a deal in the grand scheme of things. Also you'll notice it shifts very hard going up hill with a load so it's better for the transmission to hold it in one gear at an RPM which will get you all the way up the hill. You'll notice that when you hold it in gear and use the rpm's you won't even have to give it too much gas going up the hills.

Planning ahead for stopping, accelerating, passing and even changing lanes becomes more important and fatigue can set in if you aren't used to it and is worse with a heavier trailer so I would worry less about the Tahoe's limitations and ask yourself what you or the other drivers are comfortable with.

Thanks and your comments and suggestions all make perfect sense! Also good to know you're in the Denver area and pulling something larger with a similar vehicle ;)

Greatly appreciate the response!

A few other things to consider besides the ability of the TV are:

What do you need? How big is the family? Do the kids need their own beds? Do you mind converting the dinette into a bed? Do you mind or like sleeping under a canvas bunk end as in a hybrid TT? Are the kids able to grow into it or will they end up in their own beds or a tent at some point? How much time do you spend inside while camping? Some people spend a lot of time inside while camping while we tend to be outside most of the time. I can see where a gourmet chef would want a bigger kitchen while we are happy with a small one as we do almost all our camping over a campfire.

Where do you like camping? Air conditioning won't run w/o a generator or hookups. Generators are big, heavy, take up a lot of room and are probably not permanently installed in a camper the size you are looking. They also require gas which means a possibly smelly gas can somewhere in one of the vehicles. Or you can go to a campground with hookups. These are fairly expensive and TEND (not all the time) to be more cramped than dry camping CGs. We prefer to go high enough and into wooded areas where we don't need AC.

With 2 kids, 2 labs my wife and I we use about 30 gals of water for 4 days. We haven't needed the showers so that is for drinking, cooking, dishes and flushing the toilet. Again, we rarely have hookups so we carry the water with us. With a cart and a few jugs you could fill up fairly easily but we just take it with us and accept the extra weight. 43 gal @ 8.35 lb/gal is 360 lbs. I'm about to install another tank under the back of the trailer to balance the weight better.

Batteries and propane are usually mounted on the tongue. How long are you going to stay out without hookups? With one battery you may be limited to just a couple days without recharging a battery depending on your use of course. Less if you run the furnace. More batteries add weight to the tongue. A generator will charge the batteries but slowly and inefficiently. A solar charger may be good if you like dry camping. Propane last a long, long, long time and 2 20 lb tanks are cheaper and weigh less than 2 30 lb tanks. Mine came with 2 30 lb tanks but I'd be just as happy with 20 lb tanks.

Sorry for the unsolicited advise but these things could make a difference when it comes to making a choice.

Thanks again for all the great feedback Fixed.

Being this is our first TT, we're starting out with something which we can see how much/little we enjoy it. Really it's our biggest reason for buying used. Most of your points have been considered however it's good to see some real life use numbers surrounding water and gas.

We're concentrating on a Rockwood Roo 25RS right now as we like the separate beds for the kids, the hard shell surround and reading many reviews out there, it seems as though it's been a great trailer for many.

Again, thanks for all the help!