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DAVIS

Member Since: 27 Dec 2005
Location: Genoa, Nevada
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2006 Range Rover Sport 4.4 V8 HSE Giverney Green

To tow or not to tow...

We are looking at (my wife is) a travel trailer. This would allow us to go camping with our kids (dislike camping) and venture out (hate venturing) The travel trailer will weigh around 5,000 lbs. loaded (loath loading) I checked in with the dealer and he was rather skepical about the RRS managing the job (not fond of skepticism)

Any thoughts

Sun May 28 2006 12:58am

chex

Member Since: 06 Mar 2006
Location: UK
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go on a real holiday for the price of the trailer?

Sun May 28 2006 2:52am

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no sh**
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Sun May 28 2006 8:28am

Kaine

Member Since: 27 May 2006
Location: Hills of Shropshire
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5000Lb = 2267Kg

LandRover spec for Trailer with over-run brakes : 3500Kg

So why is the dealer sceptical?

Kaine

Sun May 28 2006 8:35am

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Sun May 28 2006 11:41am

DAVIS

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Location: Genoa, Nevada
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The dealer "cautioned" me on pulling a trailer that weighed the rated limit for the RRS. It was an implicit suggestion that it could take its toll over a period of time.

Sun May 28 2006 2:33pm

Kaine

Member Since: 27 May 2006
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DAVIS wrote:
The dealer "cautioned" me on pulling a trailer that weighed the rated limit for the RRS. It was an implicit suggestion that it could take its toll over a period of time.

but your not near the rated limit - I guess there is some logic to the dealers comments if you were actually pulling 3500Kg all the time

Sun May 28 2006 3:24pm

Pelyma

Member Since: 29 Sep 2005
Location: Sussex
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3500Kg is not a problem for the car either, the weight you are talking about is not an issue. It will be slightly more bouncy than say the D3 because of the shorter wheel base, but the car is designed to tow such weights.

Sun May 28 2006 4:47pm

Bobs_buggy

Member Since: 30 Apr 2006
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2006 Range Rover Sport Supercharged Zermatt Silver

As a rule of thumb, it's suggested that a "safe" towing limit is no more than 85% of the kerb weight of the towing vehicle. So, for a 2,500kg car, that would be 2125kg, or c4,675 lbs.

The 3,500kg max braked towing weight referred to in the book is the maximum the vehicle could be expected to tow based on it's re-start ability on a 1:8 (12.5%) uphill gradient (in low ratio, if it has one), not a "safe" limit for prolonged towing on public highways.

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Sun May 28 2006 10:37pm

DAVIS

Member Since: 27 Dec 2005
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Bob,

Thanks! That is exactly what I was looking for

Mon May 29 2006 1:47am

Supertrotter

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Re: To tow or not to tow...

DAVIS wrote:
.... (my wife is) a travel trailer. This would allow us to go camping with our kids ...

I presume your wife doesn't look on this forum then?..............

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Tue May 30 2006 12:04pm

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Tue May 30 2006 12:06pm

DAVIS

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If she read this forum, the travel trailer would be my new mailing address

Tue May 30 2006 2:57pm

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