Rant - looking for a travel trailer
I wish some manufacturer made the trailer I was looking for. I have 4 children, and I use a SUV to carry the family. And from all the threads I constantly see here, and on other sites, I'm not the on...
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dodge guy wrote:
Properly loaded at 12% tongue weight of 5000lbs ready to travel will be 625lbs of tongue weight. He will need a WD hitch. That and the fact the Rover is a short wheel base and has a big axle to ball distance will make towing without one a bit dicey!!!
The current version Jacyo 23B has a GVWR of 4950 lbs but with a meagre CCC of just 1045 lbs before anything is added to the trailer it's a pretty safe bet that a family of six is going to find it a challenge keeping this trailer's GVW, loaded and ready to camp, within that GVWR. Assuming a GVW equal or close to the GVWR and assuming a gross tongue weight to gross trailer weight (4950 lbs) of 13% that means an average gross tongue weight of just under 650 lbs. IMO that's minimal and having been through this routine many times I'm with gmw photos, preferring an even higher ratio, at least 14% whenever I can manage it ... with this 23B that would mean a potential gross tongue weight of just under 700 lbs and not anywhere near Jayco's advertised "dry hitch weight" of 365 lbs for this trailer. :E This amount of gross tongue weight is far too much to be dropping on the rear of any short wheel base vehicle such as the OP's and certainly shouldn't be done without the benefit of a properly sized and adjusted weight distribution system. If the vehicle can't accept it then so be it, it's not suitable for the task at hand.
