Overwhelmed and worried about safety
Hi all. I know threads of "can I tow XYZ with my ABC" probably get annoying and I've been reading and reading and reading. But I'm overwhelmed and my partner and I have never towed anything before. Th...
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Grit dog wrote:
Y’all probably sent hs416 to rent a hotel room and scared him (her?) off of towing with all this “make sure you know how much toothpaste is in the tube and where it sits with relation to rear axle load and tongue weight “ stuff.
Good lord. It’s a Jeep GC. It’ll tow a smallish trailer fine.
The OP said -"So if we are looking at a hybrid travel trailer that weighs 5400 fully loaded and the tongue weight is 10-15% of that (540-810) then that's too big for us. Right?"
Sorry, but as one who tows a trailer averaging 4800 lbs fully loaded & ready to camp, less if there's nothing in the tanks, a "5400 lb fully loaded" trailer isn't "smallish". Far from it actually, my own 24' triple bunk bed K-Z Spree which measured 26' 9" coupler to bumper averaged ~ 5500 lbs loaded & ready to camp and it certainly wasn't "smallish" either. :S
