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03-08-2008, 09:18 PM

Hi Jeff -

First off, let me state that as of right now we have no experience towing a TM. But we live "downhill" from you in Longmont and have been considering/researching Trailmanors for a while now. Like you, we also had been considering towing a 2720 with a minivan, in our case Anne's 2004 Toyota Sienna. Unlike you, our immediate plans for camping this year will be traveling to the east coast to visit our families so we would be mostly going from 5000 ft. to sea level and back ... which we figured wouldn't have been such a strain on the Sienna and would have allowed us to put off getting a new tow vehicle for at least a year.

Anne went to the Denver RV/Travel show on Thursday where she quickly determined that a 2720 wouldn't work well for our family - we have 3 girls aged 10, 8, and 6 - and we'd need a 3023 or 3124KB instead. Today, the whole family went to the RV show and found out that, with the great swing hitch that The Car Show puts on TMs which reduces length more than the factory swing hitch, we could fit the 3124KB in our garage so that's the one we're getting. But now we *have* to upgrade our TV because there's no way we'd even try to tow that with the Sienna. Right now we're thinking of picking up a used Ford Expedition w/tow pkg. in exchange for Mark's 2000 Sienna which has no chance of being a TV. A quick glance at prices on used Expeditions shows some reasonable prices for picking up a TV that can handle the greater trailer weight.

Anyway, that's our 2 cents ... based totally on thought process, not real-world experience though ...

03-08-2008, 09:18 PM	#4
markandanne Guest Posts: n/a	Hi Jeff - First off, let me state that as of right now we have no experience towing a TM. But we live "downhill" from you in Longmont and have been considering/researching Trailmanors for a while now. Like you, we also had been considering towing a 2720 with a minivan, in our case Anne's 2004 Toyota Sienna. Unlike you, our immediate plans for camping this year will be traveling to the east coast to visit our families so we would be mostly going from 5000 ft. to sea level and back ... which we figured wouldn't have been such a strain on the Sienna and would have allowed us to put off getting a new tow vehicle for at least a year. Anne went to the Denver RV/Travel show on Thursday where she quickly determined that a 2720 wouldn't work well for our family - we have 3 girls aged 10, 8, and 6 - and we'd need a 3023 or 3124KB instead. Today, the whole family went to the RV show and found out that, with the great swing hitch that The Car Show puts on TMs which reduces length more than the factory swing hitch, we could fit the 3124KB in our garage so that's the one we're getting. But now we have to upgrade our TV because there's no way we'd even try to tow that with the Sienna. Right now we're thinking of picking up a used Ford Expedition w/tow pkg. in exchange for Mark's 2000 Sienna which has no chance of being a TV. A quick glance at prices on used Expeditions shows some reasonable prices for picking up a TV that can handle the greater trailer weight. Anyway, that's our 2 cents ... based totally on thought process, not real-world experience though ...