bedpan wrote:
I knew we were pushing the Sorento close to limits.
"Close" to the limits? With a family of four in the vehicle that would be an understatement. And you expected to go out west with this combination, towing across the windy plains and fighting major upgrades in the Rockies?! :@
I have spoken to a few who have towed with it and they felt it did ok.
Of course, you see all sorts of these "it did OK" folks here in our Ontario provincial parks every summer ... doesn't change the fact that your Sorento isn't / wasn't suitable for the task you have in mind. However, this is all moot now that you've upgraded to an F150 Eco.
Our itinerary was for driving 4 - 6 hours a day for our big trip with many pitstops.
With kids I can believe "many pitstops" as I've been there ... I'm just wondering how the heck you plan to go all the way out to the west coast AND back again to The Big Smoke in just a month when you intend to drive just 4 - 6 hrs a day. :@ Heck, Thunder Bay is 1400 km, nearly 900 miles from here if you take the Cdn route, which I wouldn't recommend anyway since that same distance through the US would get you 2/3 rds of the way to the Front Range in Colorado with a LOT more interesting things to see a long the way ... done that too, many times.
Truth be told it may be the case with the WDH hitch. It has already been paid for. My hope if I don't need it was to exchange it for hoses, cables etc.
Well others can disagree as much as they want but no matter the size of this trailer I wouldn't be towing it without the benefits of a weight distribution system.
Good luck with it ... and enjoy your trip, as rushed as I'm
sure it's going to be. ;)
