Thread: What tow vehicle

Originally Posted by Dicko

A few points.
While legally with newer vehicles your towed weight can be greater than vehicle wt. it is suicide. Particularly vans, boats and bit less. Wind, wobble, having the trailer throw the car around on and our highways. Pulling up in a hurry.

Understanding that combined vehicle mass is the weight of your boat, trailer, car inc bullbar, winch, any bar work, food fuel piss and four fat mates fishing with you. your boat.

With a 2.5 t boat trailer, ideally your into Nissan patrols, bigger Toyotas if you want to do it legally and safely.

Turbo 4.2 cruisers are way overpriced now and hard to find clean or original ones.

Maybe a 3.2 l Ranger or Everest, Prado if your not doing big miles, but in WA you going to want to do this a times to get into the less flogged reefs. Remote camping sites.

Diesel is generally not more expensive that petrol, except last couple of years.


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Disagree with the first comment, after all road trains are rather a lot heavier than the tractor unit pulling them... It is a mindset change and requires good correct loading of the trailer and understanding of the dynamics of the braking systems to operate safely. Most people charge into it without engaging brain and thats where the issues start. Slowing down for the descent while you're still driving up the hill is one thing that seems foreign to most car drivers when they start towing heavy stuff!