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 The towing capacity of my Corolla is (I think) about 1500 pounds. My boat, motor and trailer is *supposed* to be ~2500 pounds. I probably *could* do it relatively uneventfully but nah, gently caress that poo poo. I ain't stupid. Well I might be. But I at least know not to do that poo poo.
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The other issue is how happy is your transmission going to be hauling that much gear at highway speeds. Towing at 55 during the gas crisis probably (and I'm guessing here) puts a lot less strain on the system than towing at 75-85mph you commonly see on Texas highways. Not sure why but the shinier and newer the truck the more over the speed limit the private owner seems to like to tow at
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madeintaipei posted:This is something a lot of people miss or misconstrue. The other thing people 'misconstrue" is that those malaise era cars were built with slide rule tolerances and the new ones are being built with computer modeled "until the warranty is over" tolerances. Good luck on longevity towing heavy with your 2010+ shitbox.
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Apr 14, 2023 01:14
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Let's not forget that if you get into an accident and someone figures out you were over the rated towing limit you could be hosed.
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Apr 14, 2023 02:04
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I don't think 1500lbs qualifies as "towing heavy" to anything without a CVT
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Apr 14, 2023 02:07
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Miata. Some will claim 1,000 on flat land, but anything over 800 is sincerely ridiculous. A light trailer and a single sportbike is the realistic max.
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Apr 14, 2023 02:17
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Humphreys posted:One for the aussies of a certain age bracket. I smoked a pack of cigarettes before midday, I coughed up a lung around one, I can't see a thing through my eyes that sting, I can't remember having so much fun.
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Apr 14, 2023 02:50
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Motronic posted:Good luck on longevity towing heavy with your 2010+ shitbox. Not an Emptyquote.
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Apr 14, 2023 02:56
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Pile Of Garbage posted:I smoked a pack of cigarettes before midday, For those playing at home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u0e8MYQxNU
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Apr 14, 2023 09:09
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New Zealand can eat me posted:Miata. I've seen a Miata towing a small trailer. Made it look like it was stanced. Miatas are not great towing vehicles. For some reason - probably the speed limit of 80km/h for cars towing trailers, 100 if the trailer has 'proper' suspension - many tow ratings are higher in Europe than in the USA. That's how you end up with a 5m long caravan being towed by a 100hp family car. It's fine as long as you don't take those to the mountains.
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Apr 14, 2023 09:18
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My Focus is rated for 2000lbs but I tried attaching a trailer to it before I moved across country and it was thinking about trying to drag the hitch with it empty so I gave up on that and just did one of the uhaul pods.
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Apr 14, 2023 14:14
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The only car I owned that I actually considered and rejected towing with was my Capri. It had a Ford Festiva transmission in it and reportedly blows up those things up with 45 extra horsepower
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Apr 14, 2023 15:30
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Speaking of towing: Today i saw a Wartburg 353 towing a little trailer. You go, Wartburg!
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Apr 14, 2023 15:43
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Spotted these today: (This was as close as I could get)
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Apr 14, 2023 17:15
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Make one that’s LHD and I’ll buy it
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Apr 14, 2023 17:17
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Mister Kingdom posted:Spotted these today: The dealer I got mine from has a poo poo ton of them. They normally get 6 per year but due to a miscommunication with their importer, they had 24 this year.
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PainterofCrap posted:Make one that’s LHD and I’ll buy it RHD is such a complete and absolute non-issue that I'm weirded out every time someone says this. You hit up a lot of drive-thrus? Good news! Kei trucks are so small that you can legitimately probably just reach over and be on the left while sitting in the right anyway!
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Apr 14, 2023 21:35
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If I could fit my motorcycle in the bed of a kei truck it would be my next purchase.
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Apr 14, 2023 21:49
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The bed of a Honda Acty is maybe a hair over 6'6". God's Own Motorcycle, the KLR 650, has a 4'9" wheelbase. Add 9" for half the front wheel and that leaves you with a whole extra foot behind the rear tire's contact patch.
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Safety Dance posted:The bed of a Honda Acty is maybe a hair over 6'6". God's Own Motorcycle, the KLR 650, has a 4'9" wheelbase. Add 9" for half the front wheel and that leaves you with a whole extra foot behind the rear tire's contact patch. You are smarter than I am: Wheelbase ?= Length. My MT-07 should fit. ...this is not ideal for my bank account.
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Every single time I get enough money to buy the kei truck I've been dreaming of, something more pressing comes up and I have to spend that money on actually important things. One of these days I'll have one. And another X1/9. And a garage
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Carteret posted:You are smarter than I am: Wheelbase ?= Length. My MT-07 should fit. The wheelbase is the distance from contact patch to contact patch. What we want to do is add 1/2 the front wheel diameter top the wheelbase to see if it'll fit in the truck's bed. You've got a 17" front wheel and a 55.1" wheelbase, so with a little bit of fudge factor that's 67" from the front of the front wheel to the rear contact patch. That'll fit in a 78" Acty bed with 11" to spare.
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Apr 14, 2023 22:42
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Plus every kei truck has fold down sides and tailgate. The rear one will obscure the taillights unfortunately but otherwise they are engineered to be down while the truck moves, you have big fat rubber stops everywhere to prevent the sides from slamming anything. Plus a billion+ tie downs to wrap whatever straps you'd like to anywhere. Just know that the highway is not the place for any of these kei trucks. You can do it, but you don't want to.
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Apr 14, 2023 23:29
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I learnt how to tow by towing a boat with my automatic Datsun 120Y, the only car in our family fleet that ha a towbar at the time. I say "boat", I mean 3m aluminium dingy on a small trailer. Still, I managed to hit the legal towing speed limit of 90km/h. You know, on a good downhill run with a brisk southerly up my freckle.
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LimaBiker posted:Speaking of towing: Today i saw a Wartburg 353 towing a little trailer. You go, Wartburg! Years ago there was one racing Lemons.
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Carteret posted:If I could fit my motorcycle in the bed of a kei truck it would be my next purchase. ????  Bikes fit good. Honestly the most useful truck I’ve ever owned. I use it for hay, feed, trash, whatever.
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Yeah, I hosed up. there's a big importer here in Atlanta too. I have a feeling I'll own one by this fall. gently caress
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Apr 15, 2023 03:27
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Imperador do Brasil posted:???? I hosed up and bought the wrong truck.
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Just make sure you budget 15-20 minutes chat time any time you go anywhere. EVERYONE wants to talk to you about it. But the flip side is sometimes you get extra bonuses. I went to the drag strip tonight and the dude at the gate loved the Acty so much that he let us in for free.
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Imperador do Brasil posted:???? A bigger and more useful bed than almost all of the lovely dual cab full sized poo poo
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Imperador do Brasil posted:Just make sure you budget 15-20 minutes chat time any time you go anywhere. EVERYONE wants to talk to you about it. But the flip side is sometimes you get extra bonuses. I went to the drag strip tonight and the dude at the gate loved the Acty so much that he let us in for free. So what was its ET?
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NoWake posted:So what was its ET? He'll let you know when he gets there.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:A bigger and more useful bed than almost all of the lovely dual cab full sized poo poo I'll trade in my work 2022 Ranger for a few of them!
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NoWake posted:So what was its ET? Nah just went to watch. I’m loony but I’m not a masochist. 
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I've never had the chance to sit in a kei truck, how well would a 6'4" large rear end human fare?
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Enos Cabell posted:I've never had the chance to sit in a kei truck, how well would a 6'4" large rear end human fare? Probably not well. I’m 5’10” and my son is 6’ and that’s probably the upper limit of comfortable fitment.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:A bigger and more useful bed than almost all of the lovely dual cab full sized poo poo The swing down sides and hundreds of tie downs is something I've only seen outside of the US. Even the previous run of Rangers in rest-of-world configurations had beds like that available. Always pissed me off that we never got the useful upfits here.
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Motronic posted:The swing down sides and hundreds of tie downs is something I've only seen outside of the US. Even the previous run of Rangers in rest-of-world configurations had beds like that available. Always pissed me off that we never got the useful upfits here. Features that are also available on the $20/hr truck rentals from Home Depot here, which is enough to cover the needs of a ton of people that buy trucks. I rent probably 2-3 times a year, hatchback is plenty the rest of the time.
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Enos Cabell posted:Features that are also available on the $20/hr truck rentals from Home Depot here, Which are bought as cab and chassis and upfit. My point is that these are stock configurations for many ROW vehicles. Enos Cabell posted:which is enough to cover the needs of a ton of people that buy trucks. I rent probably 2-3 times a year, hatchback is plenty the rest of the time. Yes, this seems to be one of your favorite things to post. I can't spek to other people's needs, just my own. I have since covered my pickup needs with a 6x10 dump trailer and 540 HP twin turbo german suv to pull it. I'm sure you've got something to say about whether I need that or not also.
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Double lol at thinking you need a truck to tow a trailer. Lol at thinking you even need a car
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