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If You Do Decide To Pull A Trailer

If you do, here are some important points:

• There are many different laws, including speed

limit restrictions, having to do with trailering.

Make sure your rig will be legal, not only where

you live but also where you’ll be driving. A good

source for this information can be state or

provincial police.

• Consider using a sway control. You can ask a

hitch dealer about sway controls.

• Don’t tow a trailer at all during the ﬁrst 500 miles

(800 km) your new vehicle is driven. Your

engine, axle or other parts could be damaged.

• Then, during the ﬁrst 500 miles (800 km) that

you tow a trailer, don’t drive over 50 mph

(80 km/h) and don’t make starts at full throttle.

This helps your engine and other parts of your

vehicle wear in at the heavier loads.

• You may want to shift the transmission to

THIRD (3) or, if necessary, a lower gear

selection if the transmission shifts too often

(e.g., under heavy loads and/or hilly

conditions). If you have a manual transmission

and you are towing a trailer, it’s better not to

use the highest gear.

Three important considerations have to do with

weight:

• the weight of the trailer,

• the weight of the trailer tongue

• and the weight on your vehicle’s tires.

Weight of the Trailer

How heavy can a trailer safely be?

It depends on how you plan to use your rig.

For example, speed, altitude, road grades, outside

temperature and how much your vehicle is used

to pull a trailer are all important. It can also depend

on any special equipment that you have on your

vehicle, and the amount of tongue weight the

vehicle can carry. See “Weight of the Trailer

Tongue” later in this section for more information.

Maximum trailer weight is calculated assuming

only the driver is in the tow vehicle and it has all

the required trailering equipment. The weight

of additional optional equipment, passengers and

cargo in the tow vehicle must be subtracted

from the maximum trailer weight.

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