towing with a 2013 Tacoma

Check the tongue weight of your loaded trailer vs the hitch weight rating. Some travel trailers have heavier tongue weights vs. others because of the variances associated with floor plans.

Seems to me you have the truck and now have the trailer, so kinda asking if you should close the barn doors after the horses are already out.. ;)

Your Tacoma will move down the road with that trailer, no question. How you like how it tows is going to be the real question..

It might be the easiest tow of your life, or it could be the tow from hell.. Lot depends on the loading of it and the hitch setup and what your towing expectations are.

Since we don't really know any of that... Well... I'd say I wish you the best of luck with it and it's gonna be a heavy load for you, so keep that in mind when you hit your first grade.. ;)

I tow a #5000 fully loaded TT with the truck in my sig and it's a great tow, but the truck knows it's back there and even with only #5000, you have to watch what the heck you are doing.

Mitch

that weighs about 1,000 lbs. more than my Ascend that I tow with my Highlander. it will move it, maybe even stop it, but its pushing it. pack lightly.
bumpy

I towed a 4000 lb fully loaded TT with my 2009 Taco.
The truck's payload was only 1000# and so it was badly overloaded with the trailer tongue weight, people, bikes and kayaks in the bed.

And it had to work hard against the prairie headwinds and Western mountains. The tranny lacked a tow/haul mode so could over-heat if I didn't watch it.

But it worked until I got the F150 EcoBoost.

A coworker of mine recently bought a 2015 Tacoma and a 20' TT with a dry weight of 4000 lbs. He is already regretting this combination. He only gets 10 mpg towing on flat ground and it gets worse in the hills.

He is now realizing that he could have purchased a full size 1/2 ton truck for less than the Tacoma. The half ton truck is a more capable tow vehicle, gets the same or better mpg, and has more room.

Your gonna hate it. Sorry.
But as others have said, it's gonna pull it, just not very well. My beliefs are you want the vehicle to man handle the load, not the load man handle the vehicle.
I really wish you the best with it though.

as others have said, it's a little late to be asking the question.
should've asked before you bought the trailer.

don't know where Smithfield is but you'll probably not like towing it thru the mountains.
if you lived in Florida or Kansas, maybe you'd be ok.

You shd have a Tundra for that weight to be comfortable. Your Tacoma will struggle to tow that load and the experience will not be safe nor enjoyable. The Tacoma is a great truck just not in this case. We tow with a Tundra a 23 ft Airstream with those approx weights and wouldn't want any more weight.

Greene728 wrote:
Your gonna hate it. Sorry.
But as others have said, it's gonna pull it, just not very well. My beliefs are you want the vehicle to man handle the load, not the load man handle the vehicle.
I really wish you the best with it though.

Even with the 4 Litre V6, it is not going to cut the Mustard. Diesel options available outside NA are vastly better, although even in this aspect Toyota currently is well behind the competition

Specs are out on the baby duramax Colorado. 7600lb towing with 1500lbs payload. Only crew cab short box