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    Posted: 20 Sep 2017 at 7:47am
I just went to the Mother Earth News Fair last weekend at Seven Springs Resort, PA. We stayed in a state park a couple miles down the road; Laurel Hills State Park. It is a great little campground with a great camp host, highly recommend it. I saw two R-Pods there but didn't get an opportunity to talk to the owners. I was very surprised to see a 2017 179 like mine being pulled by a small Jeep Patriot. I would think the 179 would far exceed the tow capacity and wonder how they got it through the mountains.
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OMG! I just looked and the most any Patriot can tow is 2000 pounds. Mostly they're around 1200 or 1300. Wow!
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People happily do dumb things all the time.
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Next thing you know we'll see someone pulling an R-pod with a bicycle.

Hey buddy! I think you need a weight distributing hitch!
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Posts: 4508 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 Sep 2017 at 3:57pm
Wow!! That on the crazy side!
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Posts: 1447 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 Sep 2017 at 4:00pm
I think people try to tow eith what they have.  A good dealer asks what the tow vehicle is before making the sale. Others don't.

Considering towing with a tow vehicle the cost associated with likely accidents/problems far outweighs the cost of an adequate TV.
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I hear ya! Our dealer sure wanted to know what we'd be towing our R-Pod with. When I told him it was a Jeep Commander with the 4.7L V8. He insisted the we get the WD hitch with such a short tow vehicle. It tows so much nicer than our old popup did that I'm glad he did.
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Posts: 105 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 Sep 2017 at 5:54pm
Maybe some of the "long timers" here can help with this question....wasn't it the orginial premise of the R-Pod to be a unit that most people could tow with what they had parked in their driveway?  I ask because back when we first became aware of them at a trailer show there was a FR Rep(if I recall correctly) there saying that. 
Seems we might have gone past that with the larger units avaliable now.
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Posts: 4508 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 Sep 2017 at 6:15pm
The earlier rpod weighed less than the more recent models. The 150 series was pretty light and our first pod a 171 was just over 200 lbs if I remember right. We told for quite a few years with our Grand Caravans , but I must say it it a lot nicer towing with our F-150!
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Posts: 3216 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 Sep 2017 at 8:47pm
Leo, that had to be a really "small" 171 if it weighed just a smidge over 200 pounds.  You could get 12 of your 171's to our 177, dry weight is 2440 lbs.
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