Originally Posted By: fsskier
Your not towing 5,000 pounds with your Toyota Van -or Lumina van.
Yes, let me make it clear, I AM towing 5,000 lbs with my Sienna. Most hitch manufacturers sell a 5,000 lb hitch for that vehicle. We have lots of options of what our boats can be towed with. Triple engine towboats are very low profile, have 1500 lbs of motors hanging off the back and about 500 lbs of lead in the tip of the nose..from an engineering point of view it has lots of polar inertia. That seems to greatly trouble vehicles like Yukons, pickups and similar vehicles that have a high center of gravity and a long distance from the back axle to the hitch. I do not like driving unstable tail-wagging vehicles on long trips when the Sienna is so much more stable at high speeds. I suspect that the pickups would be better if a 5th wheel gooseneck was used to compensate for the high polar inertia of the boat,,but that trailer would be 10 feet longer than the boat and none of our other vehicles could pull it.
These trailers have brakes of course, so that is not an issue. Incidentally the Sienna became my primary tow vehicle in its first week of life and now at 150,000 miles remains trouble free and still no repairs except for 2 recalls. Perhaps a 4wd Sienna would have been a better choice for very bad or steep muddy boat ramps....but seldom do we find one that bad. When we do, a quick tap of the boat throttles and the van, boat and trailer are coming out of the water no matter what!
But this is off topic, with lots of boats, trailers, equipment trailers we have lots of tow stuff we could talk about....but we now have tires on our trailers that meet our needs and are always trying to learn from others what brands work and those that do not.
Then Sir, I am waiting for someone like you to plow in to me-over the tow rating of your vehicle.
https://www.google.com/search?q=2012+Sie...me&ie=UTF-8
While I have nice truck-I could use a new King Ranch that would be even nicer. That's what I would get after you try to explain to the judge how safe it is to tow over the manufacturers ratings-when I initiate a court action.
Your not towing 5,000 pounds with your Toyota Van -or Lumina van.
Yes, let me make it clear, I AM towing 5,000 lbs with my Sienna. Most hitch manufacturers sell a 5,000 lb hitch for that vehicle. We have lots of options of what our boats can be towed with. Triple engine towboats are very low profile, have 1500 lbs of motors hanging off the back and about 500 lbs of lead in the tip of the nose..from an engineering point of view it has lots of polar inertia. That seems to greatly trouble vehicles like Yukons, pickups and similar vehicles that have a high center of gravity and a long distance from the back axle to the hitch. I do not like driving unstable tail-wagging vehicles on long trips when the Sienna is so much more stable at high speeds. I suspect that the pickups would be better if a 5th wheel gooseneck was used to compensate for the high polar inertia of the boat,,but that trailer would be 10 feet longer than the boat and none of our other vehicles could pull it.
These trailers have brakes of course, so that is not an issue. Incidentally the Sienna became my primary tow vehicle in its first week of life and now at 150,000 miles remains trouble free and still no repairs except for 2 recalls. Perhaps a 4wd Sienna would have been a better choice for very bad or steep muddy boat ramps....but seldom do we find one that bad. When we do, a quick tap of the boat throttles and the van, boat and trailer are coming out of the water no matter what!
But this is off topic, with lots of boats, trailers, equipment trailers we have lots of tow stuff we could talk about....but we now have tires on our trailers that meet our needs and are always trying to learn from others what brands work and those that do not.
Then Sir, I am waiting for someone like you to plow in to me-over the tow rating of your vehicle.
https://www.google.com/search?q=2012+Sie...me&ie=UTF-8
While I have nice truck-I could use a new King Ranch that would be even nicer. That's what I would get after you try to explain to the judge how safe it is to tow over the manufacturers ratings-when I initiate a court action.
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