Houston_Hemi wrote:
Hey JuneBug,
Nice pics. Have you had any trouble pulling your trailer with the Honda Odyssey?? I own a 2001 Odyssey and I'm purchasing a 2000 Aero Cub 160 (Dry weight of 2,600 lbs). We want to go from Texas to Yellowstone this summer.
I put in a tranny cooler and I've purchased the weight control system from e-trailer.com.
Thanks,
Bill
i won't be the first to tell you that the dry weight is a fantasy. it's going to weigh about 3,000lbs. with the options only, before you even load it up. your towing capacity is 3500lbs. so that means you'll be close to maxing out. if you want to camp around flat areas, you can get away with that. but to ask a unibody minivan to pull its max towing over the rockies, that's asking a lot.
most odyssey owners acknowledge that it's not a towing machine but the majority use it for short trips with no mountains. and that's not even talking about frontal area wind resistance.
if it was my family, i wouldn't. i'd get a popup.