Need some advice
Hi all, we are getting ready to buy our first travel trailer, my family consist on 2 adults and 3 kids as well as 2 dogs, we have been looking for a few weeks and have narrowed it down to 2 units, the...
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No, not saying that at all.... It'll pull pretty much whatever you want to hitch up to it...
What I was trying to say is that you could make a ONE TIME TRIP with even the heaviest trailer on your list and get it to your site as long as you didn't take anything or anybody with you on that initial trip..
If you are looking to take your current truck and any one of those trailers on your list on family camping trips, then you might want to reconsider either the trailer or the tow vehicle.
Just cause you get a new TV with a "V8" in it, might still not be enough truck to make for a comfortable tow..
Grab your dogs tail and you can pretty much tug, pull, move side to side on it and what does the dog do? (well, hopefully, not BITE you.. ;) )
But, you get the general idea, right?
3 choices I think you have right now.. Buy the trailer you want now. You already know you want to take it to a seasonal site for at least a year. So, use your current truck and take it up there all by yourself, turn around and come home and start your seasonal camping adventure after that and enjoy.
Rent/borrow/steal a bigger truck to take the whole family and your stuff along for the first trip, enjoy your time, go home and use your current truck or car to enjoy the rest of the year.
Bottom line is, your current truck is not going to be up to towing either of those trailers on a regular basis loaded to the gills with your family on board..
No matter what the "tow rating" and "Dry" trailer weights say you can...
We have all been there and done that and are only telling you from our own experience.
If you wish to find that out on your own... Well, that's what you gotta do and then you'll know for sure. ;)
Personally, I'd probably take my option of getting the trailer of your dreams.. Tow it to your site totally empty, with no one else in the vehicle and use that learning experience to shop for your next truck so you can take all your stuff and the family along with the trailer of your dreams..
Good luck!
Mitch
What I was trying to say is that you could make a ONE TIME TRIP with even the heaviest trailer on your list and get it to your site as long as you didn't take anything or anybody with you on that initial trip..
If you are looking to take your current truck and any one of those trailers on your list on family camping trips, then you might want to reconsider either the trailer or the tow vehicle.
Just cause you get a new TV with a "V8" in it, might still not be enough truck to make for a comfortable tow..
Grab your dogs tail and you can pretty much tug, pull, move side to side on it and what does the dog do? (well, hopefully, not BITE you.. ;) )
But, you get the general idea, right?
3 choices I think you have right now.. Buy the trailer you want now. You already know you want to take it to a seasonal site for at least a year. So, use your current truck and take it up there all by yourself, turn around and come home and start your seasonal camping adventure after that and enjoy.
Rent/borrow/steal a bigger truck to take the whole family and your stuff along for the first trip, enjoy your time, go home and use your current truck or car to enjoy the rest of the year.
Bottom line is, your current truck is not going to be up to towing either of those trailers on a regular basis loaded to the gills with your family on board..
No matter what the "tow rating" and "Dry" trailer weights say you can...
We have all been there and done that and are only telling you from our own experience.
If you wish to find that out on your own... Well, that's what you gotta do and then you'll know for sure. ;)
Personally, I'd probably take my option of getting the trailer of your dreams.. Tow it to your site totally empty, with no one else in the vehicle and use that learning experience to shop for your next truck so you can take all your stuff and the family along with the trailer of your dreams..
Good luck!
Mitch
