New Kuga and new to towing, soon.

Don't take content being Deleted User as personal. If you continue with the forum, which I would recommend for future advice, then you'll see it has its quirks (understatement).

Hi, just to follow this up.  Have now bought a 2004 Stirling Eccles Moonstone.  Seemed a real nice van though a bit older than I would have preferred it ticked all the boxes and the wife loved it.  So pick up the Car on Thursday and the Van next Tuesday.  Booked on a training course early April just to satisfy my need to learn so wish us luck.

watch your weight as could be pushing 90% match, OK but take care.

Looks OK, Caravan is 1442 Kg Car is 1722Kg, I make it just under 84%.  Thanks for the concern though.

That might be the MIRO weight. Our 2010 Moonstone MTPLM was around 1615kg. Having said that as long as you do not exceed the max towing weight for the car, nose weight or trainweight you are legal! There is no legally enforceable weight ratio limit of car to caravan - it is just you will get earache from the trainers and those members who think the clubs archaic recommendations are laws written in tablets of stone. We towed our Moonstone all over Europe with a car giving around 97% ratio and never had any concerns. We liked our Moonstone layout very much but simply got fed up of bed making.

This is the detail from this site.  Miro 1224Kg, MTPLM 1442Kg.

Our 2009 Moonstone was 1580kg but it was always nose heavy.  Really struggled to get it down.   We loved our Moonstone, only changed it last August for Challenger 530 (almost same van).  

Good luck, I’m sure you’ll love it.  

Rockbyter, you cannot take anything on the CMC matching service as accurate, in my experience it is the most unreliable source of data available to the extent it can be dangerously nisleading. The only accurate and legal data is that on the plate usually located by the van entrance door. Alternatively Swift will be able to tell you. (Same goes for car weight info).

Both the clubs matching services are inaccurate but the camping one is the best for a Mazda CX-5.

Caravan club one is useless IME

OK, already checked the plate on Van and is as expected 1442Kg, Kuga too is as posted at 1722Kg so should be OK for me as a beginner at under 85%.