That seems a very high kerb weight for a Tiguan. My Santa Fe is 1950 kg without towbar. and a Tiguan is much lighter. 85% now day is rubbish, forget it. After towing for a year you will learn a lot.
That correlates with the 1900kg in OPs pictures which included the 200 kg car payload.
Hi Hatch, thanks in advance for your help there’s so much information online it’s getting confusing. Really I would just like a car that would safely tow my car caravan. I feel like I’ve been going around in circles. From looking at different makes, 4wd oe 2wd? Manual or automatic 🙈 there’s so much into towing caravan’s! I’ve attached pics of two cars below with regard to your previous post. Thanks again 😊 the Tiguan (gold colour) is diesel manual and the black Tiguan 4Motion is diesel automatic
Thank you, sorry weight of caravan is 1500kg would really appreciate your advice on towing using this car, Thanks
Thank you, looking at the kerbweights the first car wouldn’t be any good? The second car would be more sufficient? As it’s only 650 more than the weight of caravan if keeping caravan light and maybe loading more in the car would this be ok? Also would nose weight be considered as weight to the car ?
Plus 1 for automatic it really does make towing so much more relaxed.
Don’t stress about noseweight. There is so much discussion about it that new caravanners will want to sit in a darkened room and sob.
OMG that will really open a protracted discussion. 😱
The fitter who should be a professional will know the maximum tow ball load for that car by checking the Reg No.
The info should be in the owner's manual, but you could phone a fitter and ask them.
If you visit the car dealer you can look in the owners manual too. The caravan will most likely be an Alko chassis with 100 kg max hitch load. Very large twin axle vans can go up to 150kg. Again the information will be in the caravan owners manual.
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