Need help from Toyota Highlander owners
Hi All, Newbie to the forum. I've been doing quite a bit of reading both here and online regarding trailer weight and how much specific vehicles can tow. Very challenging to find accurate info. ...
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Chris Marino wrote:
We're looking at a 2018 Jayco Jay Feather X213.
Unloaded Weight: 4,315
Dry Weight, Hitch: 405 lbs
GVWR: 5500 lbs
Here's your next lesson ... UVW for any trailer you buy will always be greater, sometimes by several hundred pounds, than what may be indicated in fancy brochures or the manufacuturer's website. What really matters is what the yellow weight sticker affixed to the front street side of the trailer indicates is that particular trailer's unloaded weight as it left the factory. A few years ago that included the weight of empty propane tanks but no propane, these days it seems to include the weight of both even though the trailer ships with no propane in the tanks. Here's a 2018 Jayco X213 and if you can read the weight sticker it indicates this particular unit actually weighed 4503 lbs, including propane, as it left the factory.
Add the weight of even just one battery and this trailer will weigh at least 4560 lbs before anything else is added to it. Include the weight of enough water to fill the water heater tank and some reserve in the fresh water holding tank so the system is functional and this unit could easily top 4700 lbs with no other cargo of any kind in the trailer. See where we're going with this? ;)
