Can I tow my 2720SL home with my RX300?? help!!

I pull my 2619 with a 2004 V6 Toyota Highlander (w/ trailer prep pkg), which is basically the same config as a Lexus RX330 and it does a better job than my 3.8L Plymouth minivan did. Unless you have the 4 cyl., I would think you should have no problem.

Thanks to everyone for all the advice and comments.
The TM is now home in Md, and we're now "seasoned TM campers", I guess, since we took our time and made a camping trip of the journey back, staying at beach resorts in Florida, South Carolina and Virginia. That's almost 1000 miles of towing with the RX300. The TM towed like it wasn't there at 65 to 70mph and we got almost 16mpg (would have been about 22/23mpg without the trailer). Used a WDH to mitigate the tongue weight, and used the "power" instead of the economy setting on the transmission which seemed to take care of shifting out of overdrive when needed.

Did very well on the hills of Virginia Interstate 95, but got the feeling more mountainous terrrain might be a struggle. Temperature gauge never budged from center despite outside temperatures in the high 90's.

Paul

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Paul

I'm glad everything worked out and you had a good trip home. Your mention of your temperature gauge reminds me of something that was discussed here a couple of years back but I'll mention it again for those who were not here then: The temperature gauges on a lot of today's cars are apparently programmed to rise to a certain point and stay there unless the coolent temp reaches the danger point.

I discovered this a while back when I mentioned on the Honda Odyssey owners site that I was suspicious of my temp gauge because it read the same whether we were towing the TM through the mountains of Idaho at 95f or running solo through British Columbia at -25f. Another contributer said he had read in a motor magazine that the manufacturers were programming the gauges that way so owners would not worry unneccessarily (an idiot-gauge instead of an idiot-light in other words). I tend to believe it's true because our Tundra does the same thing while the temp gauges on all our previous cars moved up and down within the safe zone depending on the outside temp and how hard the engine was working.

I had installed a transmission temp gauge on the Odyssey and it fluctuated constantly. I saw readings as high as 260 on some long climbs while 100-150 was more the norm on the flats. A transmission failure due to overheating is a far more likely problem than the engine while towing. I don't recall ever seeing a report here of a transmission failure while towing a TM however.