Expedition tow vehicle

bikendan wrote:
Look for the payload capacity, on the driver's door yellow sticker.
Come back and post that amount.

Tow vehicles run out of payload capacity way before coming close to towing capacity, ESPECIALLY SUVS.
You'll never come close to the 9200lbs.

Agree with this. Your Expedition has a max rear axle weight rating. Everything in the vehicle counts as payload except a 150 pound driver. Trailer tongue weight and hitch weight count as well. As stated you will exceed that rating before you get to the 9200 pound tow rating. As a general rule 13 to 15 percent of the trailer's total weight for figuring tongue weight.

I have a 14 Expedition Limited and even though I have never pulled a travel trailer with it I have pulled my boat( 7,000 lbs and 680 lbs of tongue weight). This is all the load I would ever want to pull with it because the suspension is to soft. Going down the road it is ok but I am always afraid in the event I have to make a quick maneuver the boat would decide where we go. The power from the 5.4 comes in at a high RPM and a boat has very little wind drag so it may have a harder time with the large frontal area of a travel trailer. If I were in your shoes I would not do it based on the fact you will be at the top of its capacity and owning one myself think that 9200 lbs is a stretch to begin with. And yes mine has the heavy tow package also.

For towing that much weight in the Rockies I would want a vehicle with a turbo. Otherwise you will lose a lot of HP as the elevation increases.
You need to load your family and gear in the tow vehicle and weigh it, preferably with a separate rear axle weight. Then, using the vehicle's GVWR you can determine how much payload is left for hitch weight. Hitch weight wi" be at least 10 percent of trailer weight, likely more. I suspect you don't have enough payload for anywhere close to that size trailer.

If you just load that trailer to 7,500 lbs, you will have a tongue wt around 900 lbs, plus another 100 lbs for the hitch. Your payload will be the issue, depending on family size, and gear in the tow vehicle.

This sounds like a 30' trailer, that may not handle the best, in the wind, or mountains, being towed by a SUV.

More info is needed, but this trailer may be too much for your intended use.

Welcome to the forum! You are wise to do some research before purchase, not just taking the sales person word that it will be okay.

Jerry

Look for the payload capacity, on the driver's door yellow sticker.
Come back and post that amount.

Tow vehicles run out of payload capacity way before coming close to towing capacity, ESPECIALLY SUVS.
You'll never come close to the 9200lbs.

The salesman would tell you it is no problem to tow the trailer with a Prius. Don't believe them.