I’m conflicted.
Honeysuckle smells nice.
I’ve been reading a lot about RVs and campers.
If you see a travel trailer or 5th wheel out on the road, there seems to be about a 50% chance that the weight of the trailer exceeds the towing capabilities of the vehicle that is doing the towing. People are generally not willing & able to do the math to calculate the true towing AND weight carrying capacities needed from a truck or tow vehicle.
We are in the market. Our vehicle has a 5000 capacity. So we are shopping for trailers beliw 3500 lbs. So our planning is atypical?
Since you seem to understand that you are looking for a trailer than nominally is only 70% of the max towing, yes you are atypically above average.
But the MORE restrictive measure is typically the payload capacity of your tow vehicle, not the towing capability.
If the payload capacity of your tow vehicle is, let’s say 1100lbs (which would be a typical number for a mid sized SUV) then you shouldn’t load it with say 700lbs of passengers, 200lbs of cargo, 200lbs of fuel in the tank, and 400lbs of weight on the hitch.
Happy Bobby Bonilla day, you guys.
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Yes Yes Bobby Bonilla day.
And the anniversary of the birth of famous actuary Larry Longely-Cook!
Cheers to both!
go on…
He wrote a paper about credibility that was widely read, including being on the syllabus I believe. He had a lot of friends in the industry.
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Is there an R to N there? I don’t get it.
Nope. I was just unfamiliar with Mr. Longely-Cook.
Same
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I just rotated the tires on my mattress.
I don’t think I’ve ever learned anything useful on a test drive.
That’s most likely the result when you go into a test drive situation w/o an explicit checklist of items to test while driving.
For example:
- How do the wipers do while it’s raining?
- Any quirks regarding how the wipers work? E.g., do they still work when engaging other controls (like the turn signal)?
- Quirks in sound quality when using a connected device (like your phone via bluetooth)?
- How do the steering and brakes work on roads during inclement weather?
I’m not trying to be a jerk, but how are you going to test #1 & 4?
I don’t see that question as “being a jerk” . . . but those two particular questions are ones that I’ve found to be the one’s to bite one after the purchase . . . and would be interested in ideas.
Although, for #1, using the washer function can be insightful; and doing it while driving at highway and/or interstate speeds.
I suppose for #4, arrange for doing test drives when the weather is actually inclement. Or finding a large empty parking lot that’s not been “cleared off” to do some testing.
I’ve found cars to be less comfortable than I’d hoped during a test drive. When I bought my first two cars I knew exactly what I wanted, drove several models, and bought what I initially set out to buy.
When I bought my current car I definitely had a front-runner in mind, but ended up with something else after test driving it on a whim. Of course what I bought was nicer / more expensive than the front-runner from my initial research, but not the most expensive vehicle I test-drove. (Which was a hybrid with stupidly small cargo space, which knocked it out of consideration. It’s one thing to see the listed dimensions, but another to look in back and see “no way the beach umbrella is fitting back here”.)
Look at the size of this trunk. You can put three bodies in there.
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