Towing with 2019 Highlander

What feedback are you getting? Here is a detailed install video from etrailer, looks pretty much the same as when I did my 2012 Highlander. Took a couple of hours, no problems.

2019 highlander brake controller install

Originally posted by StephenH Sounds similar to the accident we had last year where a taxi driver went through a stop sign and my wife's aunt hit the front right fender of the taxi. We had bruised ribs but no permanent damage. There was no opportunity to avoid that accident either. Please give your wife our best wishes for a speedy recovery.

We think what happened was he bottomed out on the hump of the road he was crossing and went airborne. My wife and other witnesses reported seeing sparks as he was careening into the Highlander. Fortunately, one of the witnesses followed the guy in his truck and was able to direct the police to where he stopped.

Originally posted by offgrid Wow, sorry you lost your Highlander, hopefully no one was injured in the accident.

My wife was driving and received a bad friction burn and bruise on her arm from the side curtain airbag, but that was it, other than the immediate mental trauma. Her passenger was unharmed. She was lucky: the other vehicle came head on through a red light and clipped the front driver's side of the Highlander. If he had hit another 6 inches in, she probably would have had serious injuries.

If you want steep, may I suggest Old Priest Grade on Route 120 into Yosemite. I think it's rated as an 18% grade, with a couple of the more steep parts at 20% grade. Going up is not horrible if you have lots of horsepower and a first-rate cooling system. Going down is not for the faint of heart. We see smoking brakes almost every time we go by it at the bottom (on New Priest Grade). More than a few times we have watched fools sailing through the stop at the bottom because their brakes were shot. It is officially referred to as a "killer road".

We had great success towing with a 2012 Highlander SE. We had no problems on steep grades up to about 9%; above that, we lost about 5 mph. It was front wheel drive, so it had problems on soft ground, but paved roads were fine. It was totaled in a hit-and-run accident a couple of months ago, right after we bought its successor (a 2019 Dodge Durango GT Plus AWD). We had planned to keep the Highlander as a second vehicle that could be used for towing in a pinch, but the accident foiled those plans.