We recently purchased a Kia Sorrento with the trailer tow package. It is rated to tow 5,000 lbs. Original plan was to purchase a small travel trailer with a dry wt of 3500-4000 lbs. I figured that i...
How many people in the Kia? I would weigh the Kia loaded how you would travel and deduct that from the gross vehicle weight rating. What you have left is how much tongue weight you can have.
Example if you have a payload of 1500# minus 700# for people and cargo you could have a tongue weight of 800# max. If you had 1000# of people and cargo you would only have 500# left for tongue weight max.