Hi
I’m really looking for some advice with regards to my cars towing capacity. I used the Caravan Club car matching service for the caravan I am looking at and it shows a 87% match which is “with caution” and then everything else was a green tick. It said under the with caution section for the 87% that you can take it up to 90% if all else is a good match which it was.
The caravan I am looking at is a Swift Challenger 500 se which a 2000 challenger I believe the weight to be 1348kg. We’d usually be travelling with just the two of us, and a 20kg dog plus we usually take a bag each. The caravan would have the normal sort of stuff in but never loads of items as we only ever do 2 night trips. We don’t use an awning...although we might consider a porch awning in the future but never a full one.
Does anyone use a Kia Sportage 1.7 to tow a similar size van? What is the stability like? How about power?
I think I basically just want to know how safe you feel with the setup?
We have been driving a 3.5T motorhome sometimes with trailer for 2 years so towing a caravan is a bit different for us.
Thank you in advance!!
I’m really looking for some advice with regards to my cars towing capacity. I used the Caravan Club car matching service for the caravan I am looking at and it shows a 87% match which is “with caution” and then everything else was a green tick. It said under the with caution section for the 87% that you can take it up to 90% if all else is a good match which it was.
The caravan I am looking at is a Swift Challenger 500 se which a 2000 challenger I believe the weight to be 1348kg. We’d usually be travelling with just the two of us, and a 20kg dog plus we usually take a bag each. The caravan would have the normal sort of stuff in but never loads of items as we only ever do 2 night trips. We don’t use an awning...although we might consider a porch awning in the future but never a full one.
Does anyone use a Kia Sportage 1.7 to tow a similar size van? What is the stability like? How about power?
I think I basically just want to know how safe you feel with the setup?
We have been driving a 3.5T motorhome sometimes with trailer for 2 years so towing a caravan is a bit different for us.
Thank you in advance!!