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Colt
Senior Member Joined: 16 Nov 2019 Online Status: Offline Posts: 383 |
Topic: R Pod 192 Posted: 20 Jun 2020 at 11:41am |
The sticker on my 180 says 2749 dry weight. After adding sheets and towels, cleaning supplies, dishes and pots for 2, a tiny bit of food, water, sewer and electric hook-ups, a bottle jack and lug wrench and battery and propane (all with a keen eye for minimizing weight), my 180 weighs 3122 pounds. Its options and I added 350 pounds with the minimum stuff, except for the bottle of wine and bourbon, to be ready to hit the road. I will argue with you about the beverages. ;-) Towing experience notwithstanding, I'd be most concerned about a Wrangler's short wheelbase and the small distance between the hitch and its center of gravity. You could have a "wag the dog" scene easily.
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John
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offgrid
Senior Member Joined: 23 Jul 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 5290 |
Posted: 11 Jun 2020 at 2:19pm |
+5. 5 no votes on the Wrangler. If you've towed a lot then you know that vehicle tow ratings are given with nothing in the tow vehicle except a skinny driver. No one goes camping like that. The empty weight of a travel trailer doesn't include the battery or the water in the water heater, and of course no gear or supplies, or options. No one camps like that either. You won't be a couple hundred pounds over, you'll be 1000. The final drive ratio means nothing if you can't stop the combined rig or steer because your front axle load is too light. Get a lighter trailer or a heavier tow vehicle, both for your own sake and for everyone else's on the road with you. Please.
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1994 Chinook Concourse
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lostagain
Senior Member Joined: 06 Sep 2016 Location: Quaker Hill, CT Online Status: Offline Posts: 2587 |
Posted: 11 Jun 2020 at 10:03am |
flryder, with a 3,500 towing max for the Wrangler, you'll be overweight in a heartbeat. Look at the GVW of the trailer. I think it's about 4,800 lbs. Also look at the combined gross vehicle weight for the Wrangler. To that add the short wheelbase of the Wrangler. It's simply not safe for you or others with whom you will share the highway.
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Never leave footprints behind.
Fred & Maria Kearney Sonoma 167RB Our Pod 172 2019 Ford F-150 4x4 2.7 EcoBoost |
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podwerkz
Senior Member Joined: 11 Mar 2019 Location: Texas Online Status: Offline Posts: 966 |
Posted: 11 Jun 2020 at 9:46am |
lol...tail wagging the dog.
If the dealership allows this, knowingly hooking up this trailer to your jeep, please tell us the name of the dealership and the salesman. We want to give good dealerships positive exposure, and bad dealerships, well, they need to be publicly flogged. My advice: have a will drawn up and a lawyer on speed dial.
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r・pod 171 gone but not forgotten!
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mjlrpod
Senior Member Joined: 27 Sep 2016 Location: Massachusetts Online Status: Offline Posts: 1214 |
Posted: 11 Jun 2020 at 9:16am |
The last thing you need to be concerned with is the review of the 192. Your tow vehicle is a wayyyyy bigger problem. They have jeepers pulling pods facebook pages, and you might want to go talk to them.
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2017.5 Rp-172
2020 R-pod 195 2015 Frontier sv 4.0L 6cyl I'll be rpodding |
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StephenH
podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 29 Nov 2015 Location: Wake Forest, NC Online Status: Offline Posts: 6289 |
Posted: 10 Jun 2020 at 8:56pm |
No, you will not be fine. The 192 is 3,449 dry, but that does not take into account what you will be adding in the way of water, propane, clothing, food, etc. The loaded weight will be much higher. You will be well in excess of the 3,500 lb rating by the time you are done. I could tow it with the our Frontier Crew Cab 4x4 which is rated at 6,100 lbs, but the Wrangler just is not up to the task. Either consider upgrading your tow vehicle to one with a minimum of 5,000 lbs tow rating or choosing one of the smaller models that weight significantly less than 3,000 lbs dry (which rules out the 178 and higher model numbers). Please be safe, not sorry. Edit: Actually, you could probably tow a 179, but it does not leave much room for capacity. I originally towed our 179 with a 2016 Ford Escape SE with tow package and 2L Ecoboost engine. It also had a 3500 lb tow rating. We traveled a lot with it until we hit ice with a crosswind. That is why we now have the Frontier. There is a big difference between could and should.
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StephenH
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom,... ouR escaPOD mods Former RPod 179 Current Cherokee Grey Wolf 24 JS |
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flryder
Newbie Joined: 10 Jun 2020 Location: Bradenton, FL Online Status: Offline Posts: 16 |
Posted: 10 Jun 2020 at 8:41pm |
I am about to purchase a 192 from Couches RV Nation. I have read the reviews on RV Insider and they are over the place from bad to great. For those of you who have the 192 what are your thoughts?
And, I am planing to tow it with my '13 Wrangler with the 3.73 axle ratios. The Jeep is rated at 3,500 lbs with this axle ratio and the 192 is 3,449 lbs dry so I should be fine. I have towed much heavier double axle trailers all over the state in previous vehicles so I do have lots of towing experience. Have any of you used a Wrangler for this kind of towing, and what are your experiences? Did you need a weight distributing system? Thanks, |
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Dan
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