Follow Up: 4 Runner Towing Reality
Hi all -- I posted a week ago or so and got several opinions on how to determine if our Toyota 4 Runner can tow a travel trailer and if so, what the GVWR limit should be for safety. Toyota says i...
Forum Discussion
CommuterCruiser wrote:
The trailer we're drooling over has a dry weight 275 tongue weight, a dry weight of 3400 lbs and fully loaded 5400 lbs. I'm not sure why they add 2000 lbs for fully loaded, but if we only added 1000 lbs which I've heard is a reasonable assumption, this trailer would be gross weight 4500 lbs. At 10% tongue weight, it would be 450 and 15% would be 680, so we'd "weigh in" at approximately 12% if we limited the "stuff" aboard to 1000 lbs.
I think that this is a completely reasonable TT to tow with a 4Runner. The dry weight is well below your limit (leaving room for stuff you put in the trailer), and the tongue weight is manageable. The 5,400 lbs that they state full loaded means that the trailer is capable of handling that much weight. For what it's worth, I have a 35' Jayco and when it is packed for a week long trip, it has ~1,300lbs of cargo in it. This is for a family of 5 (three small children). In the size trailer you're looking at, I'd be surprised if you ended up with more than 750lbs of cargo.
Anyhow, it sounds like this is the perfect trailer for a mid-size tow vehicle. I'd pull it all day long.
