Towing Car On A Trailer - Weight Limit
I plan to buy a motorhome and tow my car, a Subaru Crosstrek, on a trailer. It can't be flat-towed and I don't know if it can be dinghy-towed. I want about a 35-foot class A motorhome with a gas eng...
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Subaru quit calling their manual shift vehicles RV towable too. Sure, they could have adopted a transaxle that wouldn't stay lubed. One theory is they decided not to take the warranty exposure. Another, they went to Electric Power Steering, and that EPS has a track record of interfering with being towed four down.
I may be wrong, but to my knowledge, the only vehicles with drive on all four wheels that are towable, are what I'll call 4x4, where it's possible to shift the Transfer Case to Neutral, or the Transmission works out OK in Neutral with the TC in 2WD High Range.
NOT aware of any Full Time, One Range, All Wheel Drives that are Dolly Towable. Either ALL Four Down, or ALL on a Trailer. That said, I heard Toyota was offering an AWD RAV4 that was Dolly Towable because there was an optional disconnect for the Rear Wheel Drive. Haven't actually read about it.
How about: 1. Aluminum Trailer and 2. Add a Hitch to the Crosstrek so you can jockey 1. around.
I may be wrong, but to my knowledge, the only vehicles with drive on all four wheels that are towable, are what I'll call 4x4, where it's possible to shift the Transfer Case to Neutral, or the Transmission works out OK in Neutral with the TC in 2WD High Range.
NOT aware of any Full Time, One Range, All Wheel Drives that are Dolly Towable. Either ALL Four Down, or ALL on a Trailer. That said, I heard Toyota was offering an AWD RAV4 that was Dolly Towable because there was an optional disconnect for the Rear Wheel Drive. Haven't actually read about it.
How about: 1. Aluminum Trailer and 2. Add a Hitch to the Crosstrek so you can jockey 1. around.
