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13/8/2020 at 1:38pm
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Welcome to the forum Brooksheff but I'm afraid you have a problem.
The first figure you have quoted is the maximum permissible weight of the car when fully loaded. The second figure is the 'gross train weight', which is basically the maximum weight of the car plus the maximum that a trailer towed by that car can ACTUALLY weigh (the trailer's MTPLM could be higher, provided that it wasn't actually loaded to that amount).
Subtract the first figure from the second to get the towing limit (1100kg in your case). It's therefore immediately clear that your caravan is too heavy to be legally towed by that car.
It makes no difference if other brochures, websites or even your car's manual give different weights, those on the car itself are the ones that are legally binding.
If you wish to keep your current car, you would need to change the caravan for one that does not weigh more than 1100kg when loaded.
Were you to keep the caravan and change the car, then licensing restrictions could become an issue. It's the Category B on your licence that's relevant here, and this means that the maximum permissible weights (NOT the actual weights) of your car and caravan combined cannot legally exceed 3500kg. With the caravan having an MTPLM of 1419kg, this would mean that the maximum permissible weight of the car would have to be (3500-1419) = 2081kg or less. Yet you'd realistically need the car's towing limit to be at least 1400kg (and preferably more than your caravan's MTPLM of 1419kg) otherwise you'd be back to the problem that you currently have.
Frankly there aren't many cars that satisfy both of these criteria. Most large family cars or medium SUVs (Ford Mondeo/Kuga, VW Passat/Tiguan etc) have higher weight capacities. You might just get away with a reasonably powerful version of a smaller car like a Focus or Golf, but many of these have lower towing limits.
A solution is to take a Category B+E extended test which increases the maximum allowable combined weight of car and trailer to 7000kg (more than you'll need for just about any car + caravan combination). However that's obviously more expense and I imagine quite a long post-Covid waiting list.
Sorry.
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