Anyone with experience towing with a Suburban

EMD_DRIVER wrote:
I don't want to discourage you, but I want to show you what happened to a friend of mine. He was towing a 29' Sunline and I believe he said it weighed-in at about 7,200lbs. He had just crested a hill and the trailer started to sway. As he was reaching for the brake controller, the whole rig flipped. The trailer landed on it's side and the Suburban landed on it's roof. Please base your purchase on the trailer's maximum GVWR and forget about it's unloaded weight. Most people end up carrying a lot of "Stuff" and the weight adds up very quickly.

Like I said, I am not trying to discourage you, or scare you. I just want you to be aware and make as informed a decision as possible.

That doesn't really sound like an overloaded situation unless they had 1500+ lbs in the vehicle (then possibly). I have a tad under 2900 lbs payload in mine (8600 lbs GVWR & ~5700 lbs GVW). My guess would be more that the setup wasn't right in some aspect, or there was some other factors involved. Was his TW high enough? Was there a load shift or strong wind gust? Was he driving too fast for conditions?

I have the feeling if he was using a 1 ton CC long bed the result would probably have been the same.

Just my $.02

I tow my 28 ft (32 ft LOA)) nearly ~6000 lbs TT without any issues, and I've gone though some fairly gusty rainy days.

OP, your Suburban will probably be OK with what you've come up with so far as long as you don't add much to the TV, and stay below your tow rating. You do have the disadvantage of a softer suspension with passenger tires, so you will feel the movements more.

You don't state the year which could make a difference. My guess is that you have a GMT800 (1200 lbs. TW) which could have the problematic receiver. I think the later ones were limited to 1000 lbs.