Anyone got a 2 wheel drive ford kuga to tow with, we are looking to get one for our 6 berth single axel caravan. Would anyone recommend, we currently have a 4x4 skoda scout but diesel price is so high and it uses alot thanks
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Ford kuga tow car ?
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There is one regular member who tows with a Kuga. Quite sure he will give you some real world advice.
I had a 2 litre AWD Superb diesel and even with today’s 30 pence differential in fuel price compared to petrol I’d suggest the Superbs fuel costs overall would be lower than two petrols one before the Superb and one after. It was quite noticeable how the petrol cars fuel economy dropped when towing even a lightweight 1300 kg caravan. Solo the Superb diesel out performed them. Even a very recent Kia XCeed 1.5 auto petrol was inferior to the diesel Superb in solo driving.
We have a Kuga Titanium 2.0 2017 diesel. It pulls our Lunar Eclipse easily. The Lunar caravans are lightly built, but I don't think any van would be a problem.
I have the mk3 AWD but my son in law has the mk3 front wheel drive and has towed with it fine for last 3 years,and both give excellent fuel consumption towing.
The Op is looking for a petrol given the price of diesel so an idea of solo and towing fuel consumption together with caravan weight would be helpful.
I would consider diesel i have had a look online my skoda uses 17p per mile and the 2 wheel kuga uses 12p both diesel
I have owned cars for towing for over 50 years and the 2.0 Kuga Ecoblue AWD automatic has the best fuel consumption towing than any other motor owned,
Alex caravan, what caravan are you towing, and what is the max weight of the caravan.
Towing with a diesel car you will nearly always get a better MPG over a Petrol car.
There is a lot more to look at rather than just a 10p to 15p per litre difference in cost.
Where you are going to can effect the cost of a tow. Lots of hills, verses a flat area.
ie. Edinburgh to Newcastle, Vs Milton Keynes to Great Yarmouth.
Towing with a diesel car you will nearly always get a better MPG over a Petrol car.
There is a lot more to look at rather than just a 10p to 15p per litre difference in cost.
Where you are going to can effect the cost of a tow. Lots of hills, verses a flat area.
ie. Edinburgh to Newcastle, Vs Milton Keynes to Great Yarmouth.
I have towed with my previous Kugas all were diesel, 1 was 2wd , it towed as well as the Awd Kuga I had afterwards both towed a swift 550 caravan approx 1500kg. No problem at all. Better than my old Nissan xtrail Awd.
I was always lucky with the weather I never had to tow on a wet field, the Awd with the correct tyres should be better on a wet field situation?
I’ve only failed to exit a wet CL three times and each time with different cars, all with 4WD/Awd 🙊 Once even with a full on 4WD fitted with all terrain tyres. In such situations I used the mover to take the caravan off in reverse with its noseweight temporarily reduced very low.
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Some years ago at a PCv Rally at Stowford Meadows the pitches were a bog. None of our 4x4’s could move the caravans. Levelling boards laid out for the Jockey wheel and the motor mover did the job.
That was the exception.
BTW, a shame the PCv rallies are no more
Surprising how many don’t know how to use the mover in such circumstances. My first mover didn’t go on until 2003, after we had seen a caravan go forwards on its own when in France. My wife called me over and said “ look that caravans moving no car, no one pushing!” Absolutely brilliant I thought, must get one.
Whenever you hitch c caravan behind a car, the economy of the car will suffer. Historically petrol engines cars always seem to loose more MPG compared to diesel. Generally caravanners find that diesels are not only more economic than petrol, but also have better low speed traction and control.
As others have said, the actual economy is dependent on so many variables, it's difficult to make accurate predictions,
It also may be too much of a knee jerk reaction to change car now because of fuel price differentials, as the cost of fuel is so volatile.
If you need to run a car, you have to accept the fact that fuel costs are going to vary.
As others have said, the actual economy is dependent on so many variables, it's difficult to make accurate predictions,
It also may be too much of a knee jerk reaction to change car now because of fuel price differentials, as the cost of fuel is so volatile.
If you need to run a car, you have to accept the fact that fuel costs are going to vary.
Alexcaravan if you are looking at a MK 3 Kuga diesel. I would do some investigation re Kuga 2.0 Ecoblue 190 add blue I believe they have a wet cambelt? These cambelts are expensive to replace when required plus have possibly issues with oil contamination blocking oil ways a detonating the engine. Lots of issues with Transits, fiestas,etc Peugeot, Citroen etc with wet belts worth checking out . Pre 2019/20 Mk3 Kuga’s use normal cambelts .
Peugeot, Citroen seem to be honouring their obligations and changed design of later engines. Ford in UK …. nothing being offered. Same response as their issues with the infamous Powershift double clutch gearbox. Costs for change of Ford wet cam belt change seem to range from£1500-2000. We moved to chain cam engines some time back. Subaru/Kia/Toyota.
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Small turbo petrol engines are a revelation to those who haven’t experienced them. First one I rode in was a 1 litre 3 pot Fiesta with four of us in it. It made the hills surrounding Bath look easy.
As long as the motor has full Ford service history ensuring it has has the correct lubricant used they have been covered. But if independent serviced, this is not straight forward as a lot do not use the specified lubricate hence they charge less for a service. I have raised this with my dealer and as the lubricants are filtered when drained on a service, any sign of wear is detected. Main failures although a few,been exaggerated and have mainly been high mileage Transit vans or poorly maintained.
I'm not sure I can agree about wet belt failures being high milage. I have watched a YouTube channel that takes many insurance right offs, and diligently repair them. They have had a surprising number of damaged wet belt Fords at relativly low milage.
It seems it's very important to follow the correct service intervals, and ensure the correct lubricants are used and maintained at the correct levels.
I know this is a small sample, but it's alarming to see so many, and comments from some of their suppliers do suggest the seatbelts do have a higher attrition rate than dry belt or chains.
This article describes the problem with wet belts and the different approach to customer support by Ford compared to Stellantis. Ford started change to chain cam in 2018 and later years dependant on model. My granddaughter was going to buy a Peugeot to replace her high mileage 2014 207 with Puretech engine and wet belt. But decided in the end to buy a MG3 hybrid instead. Today she turned up in her new 9 month old ex demo with the balance of 7 years warranty. She’d made sure it was a cam chain engine too.
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