Towing a Travel Trailer with a Pontiac G8

Good to hear! I'm glad they didn't roll over into a burning heap in the ditch. It would've made some of us look bad!!!!

Thank you all for your replies, opinions, words of wisdom, and commentary. My bro is back from towing and it appears to have gone smoothly....this time. Again, Thank you all!!!!

Let him try it and stay out of his business. Its not that crazy and I doubt he would try towing at 75 MPH.

All your tow package adds is extra cooling and a larger alternator. He'll be fine towing,

Rvingis4me wrote:
I have the same car and would have no problem towing his trailer with it as long as he has a proper hitch he is in good shape. The same Australian Holden vehicle is rated to tow over 4000lbs. Here in the gold old USA manufactures want all of us to go spend 40 to 60k on a truck to tow anything because they are profitable for them.

apples to oranges?????????
my highlander is rated for 5,000 lbs., 2,000 lbs. without the tow package. Oh I almost forgot, he is going to get 500$ worth of stuff from J.C.Whitney and beef it up.
bumpy

I have the same car and would have no problem towing his trailer with it as long as he has a proper hitch he is in good shape. The same Australian Holden vehicle is rated to tow over 4000lbs. Here in the gold old USA manufactures want all of us to go spend 40 to 60k on a truck to tow anything because they are profitable for them.

In my humble opinion he won't be towing it long. He'll blow either the tranny or the engine sooner than later.

the vast majority of RVs I saw in Italy & Switzerland were TTS that I would estimate were 18-22 ft long. they made good use of a screened room that fit into a molding along the roof line and pretty much doubled their floor room. Did see one large Class A, I believe at the Zurich airport, looked out of place. :)
bumpy

soren wrote:

Bumpyroad wrote:

Shal36 wrote:

My point is that this whole thing about if you tow overweight (even by ten pounds) your truck will fall apart and you will crash into a busload of innocent orphans and you will automatically be held 200% liable for all damages and you will lose all your worldly possessions when a band of RV attorneys chase you down and flog you in public is a bit overdone on this forum.

and also over done is the continual insistence that you won't face a civil suit for doing stupid things, such as try to tow with a seriously deficient tow vehicle.

bumpy

Well at least you are consistent.

If you actually want to learn something,take a look at the work of Can-Am RV in Canada. They have spent decades properly outfitting vehicles that all the "experts" here are certain, in their "professional" opinion, will get you killed before you get to the end of the block. They can also explain that, having the engineering skills, and experience, they actually know what makes a vehicle safe, and why.

I'll give you a hint, a lot of it has to do with using something like the Pontiac in question, with plenty of power and brawn to do the job and a low COG. Funny how they warn against what a lot of you think is the best. High COG vehicles with outdated suspensions, soft squishy tires, and overall poor handling.

Maybe a few of you should take a trip to Europe this month. That might just give you one final heart attack, seeing the highways full of tiny cars pulling much larger travel trailers. How can that be, is it a parallel universe? Is everything I know totally wrong? Why does my head hurt? What does this do to my delusional self appointed status as an internet towing expert? Why, what, how ......................?

LOL, some of you are hilarious.

I remember well the time we saw a VW Golf pulling a 2 horse trailer in England. Lots of small cars with that funny looking hitch ball (we call them boy cars; the ones without are girl cars). The one thing you don't see much of in Europe is a truck pulling a caravan. Lots of Mercedes coupes, though.

Bumpyroad wrote:

Shal36 wrote:

My point is that this whole thing about if you tow overweight (even by ten pounds) your truck will fall apart and you will crash into a busload of innocent orphans and you will automatically be held 200% liable for all damages and you will lose all your worldly possessions when a band of RV attorneys chase you down and flog you in public is a bit overdone on this forum.

and also over done is the continual insistence that you won't face a civil suit for doing stupid things, such as try to tow with a seriously deficient tow vehicle.

bumpy

Well at least you are consistent.

If you actually want to learn something,take a look at the work of Can-Am RV in Canada. They have spent decades properly outfitting vehicles that all the "experts" here are certain, in their "professional" opinion, will get you killed before you get to the end of the block. They can also explain that, having the engineering skills, and experience, they actually know what makes a vehicle safe, and why.

I'll give you a hint, a lot of it has to do with using something like the Pontiac in question, with plenty of power and brawn to do the job and a low COG. Funny how they warn against what a lot of you think is the best. High COG vehicles with outdated suspensions, soft squishy tires, and overall poor handling.

Maybe a few of you should take a trip to Europe this month. That might just give you one final heart attack, seeing the highways full of tiny cars pulling much larger travel trailers. How can that be, is it a parallel universe? Is everything I know totally wrong? Why does my head hurt? What does this do to my delusional self appointed status as an internet towing expert? Why, what, how ......................?

LOL, some of you are hilarious.