Toyota Highlander and 26' Trailer
I camped side by side with a camper with this set up and got curious as this seems to be a over-matched and a dangerous set up. Checked my numbers on Google as Highland I recall at most is rated fo...
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Yosemite Sam1 wrote:
He might be blowing smoke and not a real engineer for all I care, but actually his numbers add up.
As to the tandem axel, I don't know. I'll leave it to those who have one to deny or confirm it. If their RV on flat ground stands by itself without a jack, he might be right -- but still I'm not sweating over it and irrelevant if he got the numbers are correct:
Again, he got a Highlander rated for 5,000 lbs and a trailer weighing 4,237 lbs (I'm guessing). I figure, with some weight management and traveling light, he is in the zone. And he and his family, as one said, made it to the campsite -- all alive and well from the looks of it.
My question to him was in fact was borne out of curiosity. I got a 4runner with 4L engine pulling a smaller trailer than him while he got a Highlander with 3.5L at most.
Actually no, his numbers don't quite add up. The 4,237 lbs is probably either dry weight (which is a fictional number) or "as shipped weight). Either way that's not the actual "ready to camp weight" he is towing. And as you said you are just guessing, so most of this is moot.
Regarding the tandem axle, you already know the answer. Go back to your HS physics.
BTW, I never said he was unsafe or that it was some kind of miracle that he made it to the camp site. I'm sure he was set up safely.
