NEW 192 pod tomorrow...

Picking up our new 192 tomorrow at the dealer.  First hard sided camper since we last camped in a pop up for the last four years.  Really looking forward to not cleaning canvas! 

Congrats!

The Traverse is going to be pretty close to it's max towing limits hauling a 192, or over if you carry lots if gear.

You need to look at the GCWR (gross combined weight rating) and the tongue weight as well as the trailer weight. The WDH does not actually increase any of these, it only improves handling by placing more weight back on the front axle.

So please do the following. Load the entire rig as you plan to actually travel. People, pets, supplies, fuel, gear, toolkit, water in the fresh water tank if youre carrying it, water in the water heater, batteries, etc. It adds up fast, youll be surprised.

Install the wdh but do NOT tension the bars, it will throw off the weights. Go to a public scale and weigh the rig, rolling on one axle at a time so you get the weight on each of the 3.

Then disconnect the trailer, leave the wdh in the receiver, and go through the scales again one axle at a time with just the Traverse and everything in it.

If you subtract the Traverse weight in the second weighing from the total combined rig weight from the first weighing you get the trailer weight.

Similarly, if you subtract the weight of the Traverse in the second weighing from the combined weight of the two Traverse axles from the first weighing you get the tongue weight.

Then put all your weights and specs in this calculator to see if you're within limits. Most of the load specs are on your driver's side door sticker or in the trailer sticker, some might be in your vehicle owners manual, and a couple will be length measurements you take. At the bottom of the calculator you will see dual gauges for each load spec.

If you're out of spec, you'll
have to remove some stuff or shift it around, or use a heavier tow vehicle. Up to you how close you want to get to each max limit, most of us want a decent safety factor (10-20 % or so) so we're not right at the hairy edge.

Have fun and be safe.




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+2  to OG.

I appreciate everyone's Sound Advice here. Obviously your experience is my gain.

We do plan to travel relatively empty. Told the wife that decorations are going to be kept to a minimum as well as no Towing with tanks full.

Since we are coming from a pop up world, we're pretty used to buying items once we arrived at our destination, IE water Gatorade Etc. So not too much of a change for us that way either. First trips are going to be somewhat local so that we can kind of gauge how everything pulls and how it feels.