SpeakEasy wrote:
Advice from one who has been through some of what you're going through:
1. Don't be discouraged. What you're experiencing is part of the normal learning curve in RV-ing.
2. The truth is somewhere between what the salesmen at a dealership tell you (you can tow this!!) and what the weight police here on this forum tend to tell you (you need a 3/4 ton pickup to tow anything more than a popup).
3. The key capacity figure that you need to pay most attention to is going to be the "payload" capacity. That's the amount of weight your vehicle can handle - counting passengers, gear, and trailer tongue weight. That figure is going to stop you before the "towing capacity" of your minivan.
Speak
On 3, no with a minivan it won't. The Chrysler minivans at least have very respectable payload capacity (~1500-1700 depending on configuration) but the soft rear suspension and unibody frame plus relatively weak transmission that isn't programmed to tow mean that they're much more limit than a truck with the same payload rating.
