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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Tongue weight changes with how much you load into your trailer and where you place it- in front of the axles or behind the axles. As stated, everything you put into your vehicle is weight and thus diminishes payload. According to Google gasoline weighs about 6 lbs/gallon so how big is your tank? Subtract that first, then the weight of people and everything else that is going into the car. Then you have the hitch and tongue weight of the trailer. Carrying any fresh water in the tank? 8.33 lbs/gallon for water. Not able to empty tanks sometimes before you leave a campground? The weight of the black and grey tanks contents count too. You can certainly manage most of these if you are mindful of it. Will that Jeep tow what you are looking at? Sure it will. Will it be easy to tow? Maybe not.
