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jenjen77
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Nov 17, 2015

2011 Suburban 1500 with tow package

I've been looking through the forums, just because I hate asking the same quesiton someone else already has. But here we go, last year we took our 11 burb from florida to yosemite and back (we have a 2008 freedom lite trailer which has a slide out queen bed, 4000 lbs dry weight, max of 5k) I can tell we had ALOT in our suburban, we added bike racks ont he back of the suburban, carried our 200 lb generator a few gas tanks. It was ridiculous. We were gone a month, gas mileage was terrible, but we expected that. This year we are wanting to upgrade to something our burb can handle, we are looking at a keystone bullet 2400 (I have 3 kids, and 2 adults, so we need a bunkhouse!) Its gross weight says 6800, our tow rating is up to 8100 lbs. We are looking to travel to Yellowstone in the summer time next year in it Do you think that is too much weight for our burb? We have been researching and researching, and I just don't know. we know we want to upgrade though!! Any advice, or maybe an advice on another trailer we should take a look at it, I would be open to look at!! Thanks!!
  • I hate to tell you this, but with the family and stuff on board your probably already overloaded before you hitch anything up. Suburbans are nice, but the 1500 series are really only people movers. If you did not like last year, you will positively hate this year with a bigger trailer.
  • I really doubt you'll notice much difference with a 4000 dry TT to a 4700 dry TT, the Passport 2400?

    I'm certain with all the extras you had on the last trip more than one rated for your vehicle was exceeded. If you plan to do these kinds of trip every 2-3 years, then a 3/4 ton Burb would handle the extra weight of generators/etc better.
  • I would weigh the Burb loaded for camping with family and subtract it from the max weight the Burb is rated for. The remaining weight is what you have left for tongue trailer weight. The TT tongue will be 12 to 15% of the trailer weight and this will be the limiting factor not what it can pull. On a 1500 Burb its very easy to exceed the rear axle weight rating.

    Any chance of trading for a 2500 Burb ?