dodge guy wrote:
This trailer looks well suited to your Burb! Keystone passport 2670bh.
2012Coleman wrote:
The calculated tongue weight for this is 904 lbs.
5085 shipping weight + 1875 carrying capacity of 1875 gives you 6960. 6960 * 13% is 904.8. The brochure lists the hitch weight at 625! Where does that come from? I'm betting the sticker on the side tells a different story.
There's no mystery here. So-called brochure "hitch weight" merely reflects the tongue weight of a base model as it sits at the factory, no accessories, no options, no battery, no propane in the tanks, no water in the tanks, etc. Obviously the trailer's real world gross tongue weight will increase once the dealer receives the trailer and adds a battery and propane to the tanks. No trailer will have any sort of tongue weight shown on the trailer's weight sticker as it's a variable number that depends on many different factors. Once the new owner gets the trailer home and loads the trailer up ready for camping not only will the trailer's gross weight increase but so too will it's gross tongue weight, the object being to try to land that gross tongue weight somewhere in the 13% to 14% range of it's gross weight. In this particular case, with a factory dry weight of 5085 lbs, there's no reason the OP should need to load this trailer with so much "stuff" that it would weigh any more than 6500 lbs ... 13% of that is 850 lbs. That's a bit more than I'd expect the OP's Sub could handle and remain within it's real world payload capacity and the reason I suggested earlier they try to find a trailer that will top out under 6000 lbs fully loaded and ready to camp, with an average gross tongue weight of about 750 lbs, about the most the OP's Sub is likely to be able to handle while also carrying family and cargo.