Potential TT owner looking for advice
Hello, Well - I've ended up here looking for impartial(ish) advice after getting thoroughly fed up with salesmen. (No surprise there!) I'm hoping to tow with a Subaru Ascent Premium, 5000 lbs towing,...
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I might beg to differ in regards to Subaru's and towing.
But my experience is on 10 year old or older ones. And with manual tranny's. I towed a 1900 lb loaded pop up for 13 years and tens of thousands of miles with two Foresters and had no problems. They had a 2400 lb tow rating. All Subarus used to be pre wired for brakes. They were little brutes. I do know that once marketing pukes took over the company, the engineering suffered. But I heard the ascent was designed with towing in mind. We still have a Subaru Forester and will likely get another one at some point. This one only has 105K miles on it. We literally have done nothing but tires and oil until the timing chain required changeout and brakes coming up and another set of tires.
Subaru USED TO engineer for towing and my thought is that you will need to keep the capacity in mind but if you look at a 3K lb to 3400 lb dry weight unit, you will be OK. R-Pods or the other variant Mini's I think (you will need electric brakes), would be your best bet or the Jayco's you are looking at that are the smallest ones. They are also only seven feet wide and that makes a big difference when towing with an SUV. The one element I am totally unfamiliar with is that CVT transmission. But it appears ready.
In terms of capacity, GVWR is 6,000 lbs (designed for 8 people). unloaded vehicle weight depending upon model is 4500 to 4600 lbs so you have as much capacity as many if not most 1500 P/U Trucks. This looks like a tow beast of an SUV. See below. Info is from a site called Cars101 a Subaru dedicated site. The only thing you will need to buy is a brake controller. Just Like I did.
From Cars101 right off vehicle data.
5000 lbs trailer capacity
External transmission oil cooler on Premium, Limited, Touring
optional Subaru Class III 2" trailer hitch
500 lb. tongue weight,\
But my experience is on 10 year old or older ones. And with manual tranny's. I towed a 1900 lb loaded pop up for 13 years and tens of thousands of miles with two Foresters and had no problems. They had a 2400 lb tow rating. All Subarus used to be pre wired for brakes. They were little brutes. I do know that once marketing pukes took over the company, the engineering suffered. But I heard the ascent was designed with towing in mind. We still have a Subaru Forester and will likely get another one at some point. This one only has 105K miles on it. We literally have done nothing but tires and oil until the timing chain required changeout and brakes coming up and another set of tires.
Subaru USED TO engineer for towing and my thought is that you will need to keep the capacity in mind but if you look at a 3K lb to 3400 lb dry weight unit, you will be OK. R-Pods or the other variant Mini's I think (you will need electric brakes), would be your best bet or the Jayco's you are looking at that are the smallest ones. They are also only seven feet wide and that makes a big difference when towing with an SUV. The one element I am totally unfamiliar with is that CVT transmission. But it appears ready.
In terms of capacity, GVWR is 6,000 lbs (designed for 8 people). unloaded vehicle weight depending upon model is 4500 to 4600 lbs so you have as much capacity as many if not most 1500 P/U Trucks. This looks like a tow beast of an SUV. See below. Info is from a site called Cars101 a Subaru dedicated site. The only thing you will need to buy is a brake controller. Just Like I did.
From Cars101 right off vehicle data.
5000 lbs trailer capacity
External transmission oil cooler on Premium, Limited, Touring
optional Subaru Class III 2" trailer hitch
500 lb. tongue weight,\
