Rockwood Roo 19

36onslow wrote:
Hello everyone
I'm new to this fourm and also new to TT. My wife and I are looking to purchase a 2009 Rockwood Roo 19. It's in excellent shape and only used briefly for 3 summers by a retired couple. We have not gone to view it as of yet but judging from the pictures and talking to the owner it's in immaculate shape. Does anyone have a review of these? Or what I should be concerned with. I will be towing it with a 2013 santa fe turbo that's rated for 5000 lbs. 3600 is the weight of the trailer.

first, Edmunds shows the 2013 Santa Fe 4 cyl. turbo as having only 3500lbs. towing capacity, IF it has the factory tow package.
the 3.3 v-6 Santa Fe is the one with 5000lbs. towing capacity.
so, you don't have enough towing capacity to tow the Roo.

don't know where you got the wrong info but there's NO 4 cyl. engine that can tow 5000lbs., even with a turbo.

second, 3600lbs. is not its real weight. you must have got that number from a brochure or webstite, because that's the fictional "dry" weight.
it should have either a white factory weight sticker on the inside of a cabinet door.
i don't think that 2009 models have the outside yellow factory weight sticker.
check that for what it weighed when it left the factory. usually it'll be 300-400lbs. more than the fictional "dry" weight number.

bottom line is that you made a mistake thinking that your Santa Fe 4 cyl. could tow a full size HTT.

with only 3500lbs. towing capacity and a 4 cyl. engine, a popup or A-frame trailer is about your only option.