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Subject Topic: Peugeot 2008 1.6 hdi 75 Post Reply Post New Topic
Personbrockdish40
02/4/2016 at 7:26pm
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hi, I have a Peugeot 2008 1.6 hdi 75. I want to get a towing caravan. what weight of caravan can my car pull? which weight do I go by the laden or unladen weight of the caravan. im a complete beginner, I keep reading of all different weights. any advice will be much appreciated, many thanks in advance Dan.


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Have a look on the weight plate on the car and in the car handbook. You want a caravan with a max weight (MTPLM) of 85% of the kerbweight of the car.

Your car is fairly light and low powered so you will be restricted to quite a small caravan. What year is the car and is it manual or auto?

Rob

PS I've just found a listing for a 2008 from 2015 on with a 75 bhp engine, this has a max tow of 940 kg. This would allow you to tow a lightweight caravan from the eighties or early nineties as most modern caravans are far too heavy for the car.

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hi rob,

thanks for replying so promptly. the kerb weight is 1235, so 85% of that is 1050.so can I look for caravans upto 1050kg.? the car is new 2016 and its a manual.thanks again Dan.


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hi rob, thanks for that, ive found the same figure in my handbook. I can go from here now thanks so much for your time and effort. dan (much appreciated).


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Hi Dan, in this case it looks like the car has a max tow of 940 so that must not be exceeded. Check the weight plate on the car, the third weight is the gross weight of the car, the fourth weight is the gross train weight which is the total max of the car and caravan added together. Subtract the max car weight from the max gross train weight and this will give you the max weight you can tow, hopefully in this case 940 kg. If this figure is lower than 940 it means you can not tow 940 kg if the car is fully loaded. Have a look at the weight plate and come back with the figures but it certainly looks like you will be restricted to an older caravan or perhaps you would consider a trailer tent or folding camper which would be lighter.

Rob


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Hi Rob, found the plate on the car 3rd weight was1920kg 4th weight 2860kg, which is 940kg. Golly you know your stuff, thanks a million. Dan


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Hi Dan, at least you know where you are regarding weights etc. We have nearly been caught out several times when looking at cars, especially French cars, which list a max tow weight but hide the fact that if the car is fully loaded you can not tow such a heavy trailer.

Our first caravan had a max laden weight of 840 kg but that was a 1982 model. We had a 2000 model 2 berth which had a max of around 1150 kg so as you can see the weights crept as as more and more equipment was fitted. I don't know of any new caravan that would come in to your weight restrictions so I think you could look at early nineties models but not much later than that.

Rob


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You could tow a Lunar Venus 320/2.

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You could tow an Elddis Xplore 302 MTPLM 929kg or one of the Freedom caravans, 750kg.


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Hi, I've just bought a caravan myself and have a Peugeot 2008. I think you may have got your weights confused?

On the weight limit sticker on my car it has 4 weights.

1= 1708kg (this is the GVW) of the vehicle
2= 2688kg (GTW)
3= 1    920kg
4= 2    900kg

3 and 4 refer to the maximum weight each axel can hold.


So the 3rd number= 1 920kg (1 refers to the front axle) can support up to 920kg.

4th number= 2   900kg (2 refers to the rear axle and the maxiumum weight it can hold)

So you need to take the 2nd number and deduct the first number to find out the maximum weight you may tow.

It sounds very much to me like brock may have mistaken the 1 referring to the axle number as part of the equation and so quoted his figures this way.

I hope that makes sense. I'll message brock this, as this may increase his maximum towing weight albeit slightly!

Edit: Don't think I am able to message individual users sadly, hopefully he will get an email due to me replying to his comment.



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