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Old 01-16-2011, 06:44 PM
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Originally Posted by JCL View Post
Does your travel trailer weight over 3500 lbs? Our X3 tows reasonable loads as well as our X5 did, which is to say very well.
Unfortunately it is at 3,800 pounds unloaded, so it is well over 4K with gear. Has around 450 pounds of tongue weight. I actually think that with proper weight distribution, the X3 would tow it safely (I have a prodigy brake controller on the X3), but would I'd have more trouble keeping with the flow of traffic on mountain passes for sure.

Our X3 has towed a 3,000 pound camper in the past and it was well balanced and still returned decent mileage. Manual gearbox meant I could always keep it in the right rev range. Notably, even with a fair amount of tongue weight, the X3 barely sagged at all! In fact, ride comfort on my somewhat firm riding '04 is close to perfect when you load up the suspension with a substantial trailer! Remarkable vehicle.
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