After my first posting some months ago and after reading at considerable length about caravans and all the challenges that come before me before I took the plunge into the caravan world and buying my own little space of happiness, towing seamed to be the crucial thing for me and weights and how the car will handle with a caravan on the back .
First of all I found some difficulties on asking for a test tow or a test drive with the caravan it seams this is not the done thing ,!which I found a little strange as you would not buy a vehicle without a test drive anyway maybe it’s just me after all there is so much information on line that maybe I would not need the test drive .
So how to choose ?stilll fixed on my idea of towing different vans to actually find out how it would feel , making friends with caravan owners was easy and very interesting but when I asked if I could tow their van they naturally declined
So on to my last option was to hire a van which I managed to do twice first caravan was a swift challenger sport 554 1343kg and the second a Abby aventura 1183kg both towed surprisingly well although I was surprised by the movement of each of the vans especially on motorways and dual carriageway, we did have a found 70kgs in each of the vans and 150kgs in the car .the car I used to tow was a Skoda Yeti 4 wheel drive 2.0ltr 2016 so I was in 85% golden rule but the movement still was a bit bothering me trucks passing Or myself passing a larger vehicle maybe with atc there’s more stability, my moans are very small and more than likely I would get used to the movement however I was not 100% convinced it’s also worth noting that nearly all the weight was in the car and not the caravan .
As luck would come some weeks later after along cup of coffee and afternoon chat with newly found friend whom I will call bill I had the chance that I had been looking for ,a chance to tow a twin axle caravan , bills car was get bit old and he been looking at the Skoda Yeti but wasn’t sure how his sprite Quattro EB would feel on the back 1419 kg unladen however we did pop along to the weigh bridge and it weighed in at 1540kgs
It’s worth noting my car is 1560 Kgs so we were approaching limits .
Needless to say we covered 160miles in one day uphill down hill motorways and towns overtaking and being overtaken , from my perspective the caravan felt so much more stable on the back of the skoda no movement what so ever I think the frase is “strong and stable” I felt very lucky to have this experience
I think my point that I’m trying to make how is it possible to find the right caravan unless you can actually tow the van in question ? Surely more dealers should encourage this kind of practice I mean I would have settled on the single axle caravan having never tried towing a twin axle
We can have all the data in the world but if it does not feel right it’s unhappy towing for along time
Is anyone else towing near the 100% ?
First of all I found some difficulties on asking for a test tow or a test drive with the caravan it seams this is not the done thing ,!which I found a little strange as you would not buy a vehicle without a test drive anyway maybe it’s just me after all there is so much information on line that maybe I would not need the test drive .
So how to choose ?stilll fixed on my idea of towing different vans to actually find out how it would feel , making friends with caravan owners was easy and very interesting but when I asked if I could tow their van they naturally declined
So on to my last option was to hire a van which I managed to do twice first caravan was a swift challenger sport 554 1343kg and the second a Abby aventura 1183kg both towed surprisingly well although I was surprised by the movement of each of the vans especially on motorways and dual carriageway, we did have a found 70kgs in each of the vans and 150kgs in the car .the car I used to tow was a Skoda Yeti 4 wheel drive 2.0ltr 2016 so I was in 85% golden rule but the movement still was a bit bothering me trucks passing Or myself passing a larger vehicle maybe with atc there’s more stability, my moans are very small and more than likely I would get used to the movement however I was not 100% convinced it’s also worth noting that nearly all the weight was in the car and not the caravan .
As luck would come some weeks later after along cup of coffee and afternoon chat with newly found friend whom I will call bill I had the chance that I had been looking for ,a chance to tow a twin axle caravan , bills car was get bit old and he been looking at the Skoda Yeti but wasn’t sure how his sprite Quattro EB would feel on the back 1419 kg unladen however we did pop along to the weigh bridge and it weighed in at 1540kgs
It’s worth noting my car is 1560 Kgs so we were approaching limits .
Needless to say we covered 160miles in one day uphill down hill motorways and towns overtaking and being overtaken , from my perspective the caravan felt so much more stable on the back of the skoda no movement what so ever I think the frase is “strong and stable” I felt very lucky to have this experience
I think my point that I’m trying to make how is it possible to find the right caravan unless you can actually tow the van in question ? Surely more dealers should encourage this kind of practice I mean I would have settled on the single axle caravan having never tried towing a twin axle
We can have all the data in the world but if it does not feel right it’s unhappy towing for along time
Is anyone else towing near the 100% ?
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