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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mkirsch wrote:RVhavingfun? wrote:
So using the 1400 payload that means we can only tow a 4,000 trailer? Even though our GCVWR is 16,000lbs?
Depends on how you came up with that 4000lbs number.
If you subtracted the weight of you, your husband, your kids, and your dogs from that 1400lbs and only had about 600lbs of payload left, then YES, you can only tow a 4000lb trailer.
If you travel by yourself, you could dedicate nearly all of the truck's available payload to the tongue weight of the trailer, and tow the "rated" 8100lbs. It would require approximately 1200lbs of the truck's 1400lb payload capacity to support the tongue of that 8100lb trailer.
As a rule of thumb, you can tow approximately 7 times as much as you can haul.
Yes, we would be traveling with the whole crew most of the time, so that's how I arrived at that number.
How does using a WDH factor in? Doesn't that take some of that tongue weight off? Or is that formula assuming that you are using a WD?
