Thinking About a TT, Confused About Towing
Hi all! Sorry if this has been asked over & over, I did a search, but didn't find anything that didn't confuse me more. We are considering a travel trailer to spend some time in National Parks, but ...
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I am once again out on the road in a multi month trip in my camper. And again, I have seen several Tacomas pulling trailers like mine. A Taco is essentially the same truck as my Frontier, and again, my experience has been this is a good match. I have had this from sea level to over 11,000 feet in the rockies of Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, and I am now in Arizona.
Good rigging is critical in any application, and perhaps even more so with a truck like a Frontier or Tacoma when pulling a trailer like this, but it's certainly possible to do it right, and have a good setup. For what it's worth, I use a BlueOx swaypro hitch, but there are other brands that I suspect would work just as well.
My truck is also a manual transmission, which I personally think is a better choice for towing, but of course others may, and probably will disagree with that.
As the saying goes, your mileage and experience may vary.
Good rigging is critical in any application, and perhaps even more so with a truck like a Frontier or Tacoma when pulling a trailer like this, but it's certainly possible to do it right, and have a good setup. For what it's worth, I use a BlueOx swaypro hitch, but there are other brands that I suspect would work just as well.
My truck is also a manual transmission, which I personally think is a better choice for towing, but of course others may, and probably will disagree with that.
As the saying goes, your mileage and experience may vary.
