I know there's always a lot of questions about towing, what to tow with, what you can tow with what you got etc. This article is a bit heavy on math but still worth a read. The summary is to pay attention to your tongue weight and keep your speeds down and you can get away with a lot, but if you plan on towing at 80 mph you better have a big truck!
That article made my head hurt. 🙂 Then again I tow with this.
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And do you over compensating red blooded Americans also use those gas guzzlers to tow a couple jetskis? ;D
As I documented elsewhere, when I first started out towing an 8' Coleman with our mid size Audi wagon, the car towed great, in many ways better than the truck, the problem was the pogo stick effect as the camper pivoted on the single axle and bounced the back of the car up and down like mad. Adjusting tongue weight and putting in Koni sport shocks made it bearable, but the balance on those things just seems to cause lots of bouncing. The bigger camper does the same thing to the 3/4 ton van, it's just not frightening like it was in the Audi. It's much smoother to pull a racecar on a trailer that weighs three times as much than it is to tow the Coleman.
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