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12-12-2011, 04:41 AM
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Vintage RV Owners Club Texas Boomers Club
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Richardson, TX
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New RVer with tow question
Hi all, I'm new from Richardson, TX, Dallas County. I have a "new" 1985 Chevy Jubilee 24' motorhome. I plan to use it to escape Texas summer in Colorado. I am looking for a car to tow with it. Am considering a 1989 Jeep Wrangler. It is a good one recently rebuilt bumper to bumper but I am not sure that my RV can tow the weight of it. My engine is a 350 and the Jeep is approx 3000 lbs. Does anyone have any info on this??? Thanks!
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12-12-2011, 04:57 AM
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Winnebago Owners Club Appalachian Campers Coastal Campers Carolina Campers
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Location: North Carolina
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Hello and Welcome to IRV2. If you post your question on the towing and tow vehicles section you will get more help. Not too many hang out in this section. I can't help you but I am sure someone will be able to. Good luck and Happy travels.
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Brenda and Frank, FTers, Zebulon, NC
Raisin our mixed hound and BooBoo our cat.
2004 Itasca Suncruiser
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12-12-2011, 07:05 AM
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Location: West Palm Beach, FL. USA
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This is the correct forum for this question. Towing and Tow Vehicles is for Trailer Towing; this one is for towing cars behind a motorhome
You need to learn the tow rating or GCWR rating for your motorhome and that may be hard to find for a 1984 vintage rig. Generally I would expect it to be 3000 or 3500 lbs, and I'm a bit surprised that an 89 Wrangler might exceed that. By BIL has one with a V8 engine and many off-road mods and it's still under 3000.
Can you find a tow rating, perhaps on the hitch receiver? Or is there a GVWR and GCWR sticker somewhere?
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Gary Brinck
Former owner of 2004 American Tradition and several other RVs
Home is West Palm Beach, FL
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12-12-2011, 07:26 AM
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Senior Member
Winnebago Owners Club Appalachian Campers Coastal Campers Carolina Campers
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Opps, Sorry got my tows mixed up
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Brenda and Frank, FTers, Zebulon, NC
Raisin our mixed hound and BooBoo our cat.
2004 Itasca Suncruiser
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12-12-2011, 08:00 AM
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Senior Member/RVM #90
Monaco Owners Club
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Can't help with your questions, but welcome to IRV2! Glad you joined us! Good luck & God bless!
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Joe & Annette
Sometimes I sits and thinks, sometimes I just sits.....
2002 Monaco Windsor 40PBT, 2013 Honda CRV AWD
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12-12-2011, 09:46 AM
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Fleetwood Owners Club American Coach Owners Club
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Your actual tow rating is the GCWR minus the weight of the tow vehicle when ready to tow...or the capacty of the hitch, which ever is lower.
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2014 American Eagle 45T
DD 13, 500 HP
Pulling a Honda CRV
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12-12-2011, 11:42 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Warren County, NJ
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Look on the driver door, glove box or a sticker that indicates the Gross Combined Weight Rating (GCWR)..
Then get the RV (with everything in it, full with water, propane, gas, food, clothes, people) weighed. Truck stops or grain mills have scales.
Then do the math. The GCWR minus the weight at the scale. This will give you the amount of weight that you can tow.
Remember that if you put anything else in the RV this will decrease the amount you can tow.
Also check the hitch to make sure the weight rating is sufficient for the Jeep.
Let us know if you have any more questions..
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Gene & Ginger
2019 Chevy Express 3000 6.0L
2024 Grand Design Imagine 2600RB
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12-23-2011, 07:39 PM
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Member
Vintage RV Owners Club Texas Boomers Club
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Richardson, TX
Posts: 31
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Towing Jeep
Thanks to all who responded to my question regarding towing a jeep. When I went to test drive it a bigger problem was getting in and out of it. I would need a ladder. I ended up buying a Smart Car so I know towing will be no problem.
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