Soon to be 196 owners - Hello !

Hello all !

First time poster  Found these forums and ended up spending a couple hours reading through posts last night - a ton of good info here ! I hope to be able to add to it soon.

As the title states, my wife and I will soon be 196 owners. We will have to miss out on the rest of the 2020 season as our trailer won't be here until October . On the upside - it will be a 2021.5 and will have the updated colours and entry door.

I do have a couple questions for other 196/195 (even 192/193) owners. What are you towing it with and how does it handle ? I found a couple responses in other threads - there must be more of us . We have a 2019 GMC Canyon Duramax (7600lbs tow rating - bought specifically to tow a small travel trailer and to still fit into our condo parking spot) and will be using a Blue Ox SwayPro hitch. Originally we were only looking at trailers that were 3000lbs dry, but finding one (including the smaller RPODs) with a larger fridge/freeze has proven difficult. The quality just doesn't seem to be there when looking for a unit with a larger fridge/freeze with other brands, unless of course you take a large price jump. We looked at some of the 'higher end' brands but would end up hauling around a heavier trailer with features we don't want or need (*cough* range *cough*). We came back to the 196 because it checked all the boxes - despite being 600lbs heavier than we wanted and every unit we looked at seemed to be built better than other brands. I figure we will be about 4500-4600lbs loaded and axle weights should be ok with good cargo management. I have spent a bunch of time on the Coloradofans forum and there is a large number of folks hauling bigger and heavier units with "no issue" (don't know if they are legal or not) with the Canyon/Colorado.

Another question would be to the 195/196 owners - any issues I should look out for specific to these models that may not appear on the smaller PODs ?

Thanks,

Adrian