Towing with a Honda Ridgeline
My Honda Ridgeline has a maximum towing capacity of $5000. I'm looking at buying a trailer that weighs 3735 pounds, dry weight. Is that too heavy? How much weight, on average, would goods and suppl...
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Baygirl wrote:
My Honda Ridgeline has a maximum towing capacity of $5000. I'm looking at buying a trailer that weighs 3735 pounds, dry weight. Is that too heavy?
You are probably not going to be real happy with the towing experience. The Ridgeline has a "hybrid" chassis, kind of a cross between a unibody and a body-on-frame.
Honda's logic, if we want to call it that, for recommending "NO" weight distributing hitches is because "it can be set up incorrectly".
Given that, if I were stepping into the arena of towing with one, I would personally use a weight distributing hitch, and "set it up properly". But, having said that, given that Honda has an official stance of no-wd, then I suppose good sense should say we advise going with what they state.
Even if the a trailer weighed just 4000 pounds, with a tow vehicle of those dimensions, I would say a WD hitch would be a requirement.
That was a long way of saying, no, your plan is probably not a good match.
I'm not trying to run down your vehicle, but honestly, a Ridgeline is not really a truck. It's a front wheel drive car, with a computer controlled AWD system, dressed up to look like a truck.
