Club 80-90 Forums

Hi

I'm going to look at a 2.1 petrol injected late model automatic this weekend. I've got a medium-sized caravan at the moment...has anyone any experience of towing with this model? What's the recommended towing limit? Answers gratefully received before Sat.

John Davis

we tow a fully laden trailer tent, fully laden roof rake, 6 kids
with a 2.1 auto.....

fantastic, I got more mpg sticking at 60 with a trailer than my usual 75/80


relaxed crusin, with lots of grunt

your welcome to bob down to Derby to try !

We used to tow a 5m caravan with our 2.1 auto, it coped well though would loose speed on hills obveously. I think that would have weighed about 1.2t plus the caravelle was fully loaded.

Only time it struggled was going up a VERY steep campsite entrance road in Spain, floored it with a runup and it JUST made it, with alot of torque converter slip!

Fuel consumption towing was around 13mpg so I'm told (normally mid twentys on its own).

We once tow a SWB Land-Rover with it, landy plus trailer would probubly have weighed just over 2 tonnes, That was definately its limit! (I think 2t is what the book says? I think we were exceeding it slightly). The Caravelle wasn't carrying much this time but even touching the throttle made it kickdown and you really had to boot it to get it to eventully accelerate very slowly, but only on the flat. The sence of momentum you got when you lifted off though was incradabe - probubly gave the brakes a fair hammering too! We only did this once! (150miles was enough!)

Thanks both of you for giving me some peace of mind. I guess I'll just have to get used to the high petrol bills!

John Davis

get it gassed.mine and matts are.cuts your fuel bill in half...

I'll just have to get used to the high petrol bills!