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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Payload is everyrhing you put inside on or behind your Jeep. By behind I mean tongue weight.
If you really want to know. Load your family and everything that you would carry for a weekend and drive across a set of scales. My guess if you do you will find your available payload, or hitch weight will be around 300 pounds. There is no way on heck I would consider towing that much with that little. Years back we had a Tahoe, whixh was way more than your Jeep, DW, me and a 100 pound dog. We pulled a 20 foot 7000 pound loaded TT and guaranteed I would not want more. It was at its comfortable limits. Now Im not a newby, having towed trailers for close to 40 years, so please take the advise given. Get a bigger tow vehicle or start looking at small hybrids or tent trailers. You will be much happier at the end of the day.
If you really want to know. Load your family and everything that you would carry for a weekend and drive across a set of scales. My guess if you do you will find your available payload, or hitch weight will be around 300 pounds. There is no way on heck I would consider towing that much with that little. Years back we had a Tahoe, whixh was way more than your Jeep, DW, me and a 100 pound dog. We pulled a 20 foot 7000 pound loaded TT and guaranteed I would not want more. It was at its comfortable limits. Now Im not a newby, having towed trailers for close to 40 years, so please take the advise given. Get a bigger tow vehicle or start looking at small hybrids or tent trailers. You will be much happier at the end of the day.
