Calling all camper trailer towers
 

I know the limit on the Q7 is 6600 lbs with 660 on the tongue. For a safety margin I want the camper max at 6000/600.
What do you guys have? 2 adults, 2 young kids, dog. Thinking something in the 20-25 foot range should be good on the weight?

Pics always welcome :D

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2017 Intech Discover 20ft Toyhauler - $22k

• Tandem Torsion Axles
• Full Aluminum Frame/Box
• Two LP Heaters, AirConditioning, PowerVent, 80qt Engel Fridge.
• Two Queen size beds
• 650W Solar w/100AH LiFePo4 Battery & Honda 2200 Genset
• 2003 KTM 65 SX, 1993 Suzuki DR350
• Two Kids, Two Dogs, Two Adults
• GVWR 7k, dunno my current weights.. seems fine.

Right now I'm looking at picking up a Volkswagen Iltis to swap a TDI motor into, it'll fit in the back of my toy hauler :D

Too bad they only made these for such a short time, not many produced unfortunately.. InTech has some really nice smaller units.

Just finished a 1500 mile trip towing a 2006 R-Vision MaxLite 23RS (23' with a rear slide). Supposedly it's 4k dry....loaded it came in at 5200 lbs. I'll be doing a whole post on my experience....

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my 25 ft Jayco Heritage 3130 kg 340 kg on ball . 4.2 v8 twin turbo TDI pulls it very well

MDL - do you have air suspension on your 4.2T? At ~750lb TW I would assume so, I'd think that would sag the steel suspension quite a bit. But I know with my old 4.2 with air, it would level anything I hooked to it or loaded in the cargo area (twice now I've loaded the back of a Q7 with 800+ lbs of stuff).

Hi cuatrokoop yes should of said its a 2009 Sline air suspension , sits nice and level , i use weight transfer bars as well but it dose not really need it not much pressure on them at all. sorry pic is not real good cars not on level ground .
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Nice, thats a big ol trailer! So jelous of your guy's 4.2 TDI that is a really fantastic engine that makes any half ton truck jelous.
I have been reading aloot of accounts on the air stream forums, guys towing 6k+ lb campers with and without WD hitches all over the place with cayennes and Q7s with no issues. WD would be a must with steel suspension. Most o the cayennes on the AS forums are steel suspension. They sit nice and level with WD bars.

I picked up a 28ft grey wolf from the air force base for my Aunt and hauled it out to the lake, was across flatland but it did perfectly fine.. hadda crank that brake controller way up from normal.. shoulda got a pic, it was a site for sure.

Hi Greg50H yes i had a Vw toureg v10 on air before the Audi it was great with the same van as well , but before that i had a Ford Exsplorer V8 and it was like a boat rocking and rolling all over the place ( to be far it was over loaded )
Yes the 4.2 is a great motor 760nm -- 900nm remaped but im happy with 760nm pulls like a train

HI dreadlocks shame you didnt get a pic check this one out , sold my old VW Reg v10 to this bloke he towed this 32 ft yacht to the With Sunday Islands from Forbes About 1200 km
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