Front wheel Drive vehicle for towing?
My wife and I are looking to purchase a vehicle to tow a trailer camper + or - 19 feet. There are a number of front wheel 6 cylinder..300+hp cars..which have a tow rating of over 5,000lbs... Example: ...
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carringb wrote:
The Arcadia is a GMC crossover. It is FWD or AWD.
FWDs can tow, but you have to ensure a correct hitch setup. One note about the Arcadia...The transmission is tuned for fuel economy, so it hunts really bad when towing. I had to help two different owners who burned up their transmissions towing just small utility trailers.
The Acadia also has a low GCWR that makes any weight added to the TV subtract almost directly from tow capacity, so 800 lbs of people/dogs would mean that tow rating would go from 5200 lbs down to 4400 lbs. The payload was decent enough though.
Re the transmission... If you get the factory tow package it should come with a re-programmed transmission module to adjust the shift points. Not sure if those trans might have been on Acadias that someone added an aftermarket hitch to. Originally I thought the non-tow package equipped vehicles were limited to ~1000-1500 lbs, but I can't find my source on that at the moment.
