What can my Suburban safely tow?
We were all set to purchase a Jayco Jay Flight 28BH today until I started reading threads on here and getting nervous about our Suburban's ability to tow it safely. We have a 2008 Suburban with a 6L ...
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handye9 wrote:RVhavingfun? wrote:
The dealer is telling us that we'd be fine because we have the 4.10 axle and will be using a WDH, and when I asked him about the calculators I found online, or the formula posted here which uses available payload, he claimed he'd never heard of that. He said that 4,000lbs is way too low of a limit for our Suburban and looked at me like I was clueless.
The dealer knows, when you come to pick it up, neither the tow vehicle. or the trailer will be loaded up for camping. At that time the combination would probably be within specs. Once you get the trailer off the lot and onto a public road, it's not the dealers problem.
Check out this link. Notice this salesman never mentions payload, never mentions how passengers, cargo, or aftermarket accessories affect tow capacity, and actually says a trailer with 5900 GVWR, would be a good match for a family of four, in a vehicle that only has 5000 lb tow capacity. In reality, once that family of four gets into the vehicle, it no longer has 5000 lb tow capacity.
Yup! That's pretty much exactly how it went at the dealership when we were looking at the Jayco. It has a dry weight of 6,000 and something lbs and a GVWR of 7,500, and he told us "Oh this is a great trailer for you, even fully loaded you're 600lbs under your tow rating!'
We were going there to buy it when I jumped on here because it just looked too big to me. I'm glad I did!
When I mentioned payload and what we had remaining for tongue weight, he acted like that was the first time he'd ever heard those words.
