Prius towing a travel trailer? Yes.

Does the Prius have a frame? If not, it would seem risky to stress the unit. Sounds a bit like putting a hitch on a beer can and hoping for the best.

Just a quick Google shows the '03 Explorers had a max tow capacity of 7k depending on setup, whereas the new pseudo Explorers come in at 5k. I stand to be corrected as I'm no expert, but I believe the older Explorers had a Ranger frame, where as the new ones are a Taurus platform.

pronstar wrote:
Yikes.
The Prius has no tow rating from Toyota - it is not designed to tow anything.

It is if you bolt a hitch to it!

06Fargo wrote:
The people towing with the Prius are out camping somewhere

and most of the folks on this forum are saying it can't be done. Very ironic.

The people towing with the Prius are out camping somewhere having a time and we are "discussing" on computers ha ha ha someone has their priorities right?

Road Ruler wrote:

dodge guy wrote:

Is1mike wrote:
But since you mention it...They don't call them Exploders for nothing...

Never did understand why some people call them Exploders?

The out of the box Explorers were nasty TV's. They needed a lot of mods to get them be acceptable TV's. The oversized exploding Firestone tires made a bad situation even worse.
Uhaul stopped renting trailer to folks with Explorers because of the very high rate of accidents with Explorers towing their trailers.

Their automatic transmissions had a high failure rate also.

IndyCamp, We drove through Indiana for years traveling from Maryland to colorado and always found the people there very nice. Only gripe was it took me years to get from one side of Indianapolis to the other without getting lost on that beltway. Ended up downtown and drove thru and past the speedway. I'd always want to go there, but not that way!

I was fortunate to work in around 35 states over the years and have been to all but Alaska and Maine, so you are one up on me if I read you map right. But only a few in an RV.

dodge guy wrote:

Is1mike wrote:
But since you mention it...They don't call them Exploders for nothing...

Never did understand why some people call them Exploders?

The out of the box Explorers were nasty TV's. They needed a lot of mods to get them be acceptable TV's. The oversized exploding Firestone tires made a bad situation even worse.
Uhaul stopped renting trailer to folks with Explorers because of the very high rate of accidents with Explorers towing their trailers.

PAThwacker wrote:
Where do they allow piggy back tankers? Last I saw them was wrecking the intro to CHiPs, 30 years ago.

They are all over the state of Idaho. See them coming up and down the canyon on SR-55 almost every trip.

RedRocket204 wrote:

travelnutz wrote:
...I failed...

couldn't agree more

Haha! That pretty much sums it up!

travelnutz wrote:
...I failed...

couldn't agree more