Advice on towing weight

benarty31 replied on 16/05/2021 20:51

benarty31

Posted on 16/05/2021 20:51

Hi Folks,

My wife and I are seriously considering purchasing a 4 berth caravan for our young family and was looking for some advice as complete newbies.

My car is a 2014 Peugeot 308 estate 1.5 diesel. The V5 states it has a technical premissible towable mass or trailer braked 1300kg.

The Vin shows the following numbers 1870kg, 3170kg, 1 1050kg, 2 980kg

I know as much as I won't be able to tow much due to the restriction on my licence 3500kg combined weight.

Would I be right in saying that my car would be ok to tow a Bailey Orion 2012 430/4 MTPLM 1247kg

Our budget is about £10k to get a caravan and wanted your expert advice, unfortunately changing the car isn't really an option as need it for work so was hoping to make it work and the caravan needs to be in budget and big enough for 2 adults and 2 primary kids.

Appreciate any advice on the above and please feel free to point me in the direction of good starter caravans within my budget that would work with my car

Thanks folks

Paul

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Surfer replied on 08/06/2021 12:23

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Posted on 08/06/2021 11:55 by JVB66

On most if not all alko hitch heads there is a 100kg max weight limit moulded on the hitch itself

Posted on 08/06/2021 12:23

Our ALKO hitch on our Buccaneer has a maximum of 150kg however as you say generally the maximum is 100kg as I pointed out in an earlier post.

JVB66 replied on 08/06/2021 12:31

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Posted on 08/06/2021 12:23 by Surfer

Our ALKO hitch on our Buccaneer has a maximum of 150kg however as you say generally the maximum is 100kg as I pointed out in an earlier post.

Posted on 08/06/2021 12:31

But "not a lot of people know that" as I think Michael Cain would say

Lutz replied on 13/06/2021 20:34

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Posted on 08/06/2021 11:55 by JVB66

On most if not all alko hitch heads there is a 100kg max weight limit moulded on the hitch itself

Posted on 13/06/2021 20:34

All current AlKo couplings rated for trailers between 750kg and 3500kg other than the AKS3004 have a 120kg hitch head limit. The AKS 3004 has a 150kg limit.

Surfer replied on 14/06/2021 06:30

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Posted on 13/06/2021 20:34 by Lutz

All current AlKo couplings rated for trailers between 750kg and 3500kg other than the AKS3004 have a 120kg hitch head limit. The AKS 3004 has a 150kg limit.

Posted on 14/06/2021 06:30

ALKO state on the paper documentation for the hitch that the maximum is 100kg so the 120kg limit is news to most of us. They also say the same on their website that limit is 100kg.

Do you have a link to show that all ALKO couplings except the AKS3004 have a maximum limit of 100kg?

Lutz replied on 14/06/2021 21:27

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Posted on 14/06/2021 06:30 by Surfer

ALKO state on the paper documentation for the hitch that the maximum is 100kg so the 120kg limit is news to most of us. They also say the same on their website that limit is 100kg.

Do you have a link to show that all ALKO couplings except the AKS3004 have a maximum limit of 100kg?

Posted on 14/06/2021 21:27

Data on pages 362 to 364 in AlKo's trailer components catalogue quotes 120kg as the noseweight limit for couplings for braked trailers up to 2700kg. Maybe other chassis components restrict the limit to 100kg.

Surfer replied on 15/06/2021 08:02

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Posted on 14/06/2021 21:27 by Lutz

Data on pages 362 to 364 in AlKo's trailer components catalogue quotes 120kg as the noseweight limit for couplings for braked trailers up to 2700kg. Maybe other chassis components restrict the limit to 100kg.

Posted on 15/06/2021 08:02

That is correct however on this page they quote differently if you look at technical details. The coupling prior to the current one also had a limit of 100kg. No wonder many people get confused as both of us are correct.

KeithL replied on 21/06/2021 09:59

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Posted on 21/05/2021 21:33 by KevinO

Hello, Can someone please tell me what my nose weight must be?

I have a VW touareg (2004) and I'm towing a Swift Elegance 580.

the MRO IS1534 AND the MTPLM is 1690.

Cheers

Kevin

Posted on 21/06/2021 09:59

Max nose weight on my 2015 Touareg is 140Kg however those sold in America and Australia have a max nose weight, or tongue weight as they call it, of 280Kg.

All these are academic in reality as Alko place a max hitch weight on their couplings of 100Kg in most cases. Check the max hitch weight in your caravan manual and that's in effect the maximum nose weight you can go to with the Touareg. The cars limit is higher than the Alko max weights.

I always aim to have a nose weight of 90-95Kg when towing with my Touareg.

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