First Travel Trailer, help us out!
Hey guys and gals, My wife and I have been looking for a little over a year now for our first travel trailer. We have a towing capacity of 7200lbs with our jeep grand Cherokee Trailhawk. I thin...
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better look long and hard at payload. I suspect you are asking too much of the jeep. (I was a jeep guy and towed heavy with more than one of mine, I am in no way knocking jeeps as tow vehicles)
if you have the jeep I think you have ( http://www-5.jeep.com/en/jeep-capabilities/towing/#GrandCherokee4Tab* )
your payload is only 1050.
subtract the weight of you and your family and any gear in the jeep from that
then subtract the weight of your hitch (usually around 90 lbs)
that's a rough estimate of what's left for tongue weight (should be around 13 percent of loaded trailer weight NOT DRY WEIGHT)
as am example
1050
-500 (family remember that boy will grow and he has stuff)
-100 hitch
=450 lbs for the tongue
450/.13=3462 loaded weight. that's not much for a 25 foot camper empty let alone camp ready.
if you have the jeep I think you have ( http://www-5.jeep.com/en/jeep-capabilities/towing/#GrandCherokee4Tab* )
your payload is only 1050.
subtract the weight of you and your family and any gear in the jeep from that
then subtract the weight of your hitch (usually around 90 lbs)
that's a rough estimate of what's left for tongue weight (should be around 13 percent of loaded trailer weight NOT DRY WEIGHT)
as am example
1050
-500 (family remember that boy will grow and he has stuff)
-100 hitch
=450 lbs for the tongue
450/.13=3462 loaded weight. that's not much for a 25 foot camper empty let alone camp ready.
