Tow Vehicle: Cayenne, Touareg or GL450?
03-21-2007, 02:11 PM
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Originally Posted by nkhalidi
Enterprise has a separate truck rental department, not your regular neighborhood rental locations. They have F-250s and allow towing.
The catch is that one must have a corporate account (pretty much a snap to set up) to rent from them. No CDL requirement either. Call your local erac branch and ask them for the number of the closest truck rental location.
The catch is that one must have a corporate account (pretty much a snap to set up) to rent from them. No CDL requirement either. Call your local erac branch and ask them for the number of the closest truck rental location.
03-24-2007, 12:47 AM
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Expedition pulls aluminum trailers just fine. It gives you the room for 4 large guys and room in the back to store lots of valuables. Unlike pickups you can leave lots of stuff in your truck overnight and not worry.
03-24-2007, 05:08 AM
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Some years back we spent a lot of time on the horse show circuit, the lessons we learned about towing and towing vehicles apply equally well to boats and cars.
Usually we would take two rigs, either one towing a horse trailer (float) or an actuaql custom 'Horse Box' and the other a car towing a mobile home as hotels are never convenient for this sort of activity.
We learned that long wheel based tow vehicles are better than short wheel based ones. When towing a horse trailer, we could average about 10mph more with a long wheelbase than the short wheelbase Land Rover. Having horses in the trailer you become very aware of incipient sway, and the horses don't like it, and dont perform well if they have travelled badly.
Getting more weight on the draw bar wasn't always a good idea. Eventually we got a caravan (mobile home) with a 'sports' suspension, we could tow this at speeds up to 100 mph and draw bar weights were rarely more than about 65 lbs. We concentrated weight over the caravan axle and as low as possible. It was important to make sure everything towed level when loaded, so draw bar height was also important. Previously we had run some big draw bar weights.
Often when trailering this means early starts, a big effortless tow vehicle with plenty of room and nice fittings makes for more restful passengers, and more alert competitors once the event starts, this is really important.
I like the big Touareg V10, but its not a great drive off road (er horrible would be a better term), Bruce Canepa does great things to big US SUVs, were I based in the States, I would find it hard to look past that kind of tow vehicle.
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Usually we would take two rigs, either one towing a horse trailer (float) or an actuaql custom 'Horse Box' and the other a car towing a mobile home as hotels are never convenient for this sort of activity.
We learned that long wheel based tow vehicles are better than short wheel based ones. When towing a horse trailer, we could average about 10mph more with a long wheelbase than the short wheelbase Land Rover. Having horses in the trailer you become very aware of incipient sway, and the horses don't like it, and dont perform well if they have travelled badly.
Getting more weight on the draw bar wasn't always a good idea. Eventually we got a caravan (mobile home) with a 'sports' suspension, we could tow this at speeds up to 100 mph and draw bar weights were rarely more than about 65 lbs. We concentrated weight over the caravan axle and as low as possible. It was important to make sure everything towed level when loaded, so draw bar height was also important. Previously we had run some big draw bar weights.
Often when trailering this means early starts, a big effortless tow vehicle with plenty of room and nice fittings makes for more restful passengers, and more alert competitors once the event starts, this is really important.
I like the big Touareg V10, but its not a great drive off road (er horrible would be a better term), Bruce Canepa does great things to big US SUVs, were I based in the States, I would find it hard to look past that kind of tow vehicle.
R+C
