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Originally Posted by hayseed
And if you do load it to 3200 Kg you're Trailer weight is capped at 2800 Kg. Otherwise your over the 6000 kg GCM..
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Originally Posted by hayseed
Sorry, I should have qualified that with "if you Load It to 3200 kg before hooking up the trailer..
Because as you correctly point out the ute can only be 2900kg (In round Figures) prior to hooking up the Trailer..
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No, because 10% of the trailer's weight goes onto the tow vehicle's payload as
towball down force. So a 3,000 Kg trailer has 300 kg tow ball downforce and its
remaining weight is 2700 Kg, that gets added to the vehicle's 3,000 GVM.
I get that you would not want to fully load these Utes with passengers, gear in
the rear tub and a 3,000 Kg trailer. The whole Idea is to stay within those limits
and if you want a bigger Ute, you have to pay more for a Land cruiser or Patrol.
I would pull it up at a 2300 or 2500 Kg trailer as absolute max, it's more comfortable
but if you had a supercab and a ffth wheel hitch, I bet you could do some pretty
incredible stuff provided you stay on the black top or easy going dirt roads.
My ultimate Ute would be an F150 with the Land Rover 4.4 V8 diesel (they don't make it of course)