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Originally Posted by EA37TS
Based on GV and GC find a TOAD that weights less. You should never max out at towing capacity.
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This may sounds strange, but my motive is not to find a toad. I honestly think I can do without a toad (4 years now). However, if my current SUVs were flat towable, I would certainly entertain equipping them as such.
I just recently learned that Blue Ox has base plate / kits for Navigators. Since I happen to be a Navigator guy it has my attention. It is not like we go 3 month cross the country excursions. But a 2 hour trip here, a 5 hour trip there etc. Longest planned we have had since buying was 12 hours one way and that is exception. On that trip we would NOT have carried or wanted a Toad.
With that said, I think the junction of your reply and the Ace's is to say if I were to go down this road (pun intended); to not try to get a hitch beefed up and certified rated for 6,000#s; rather one rated for 8,000#. Technically, I only need 800# more beef on the hitch rating.
With the 5,800# Navigator; we would still be under the 23,000 GCWR, but what I would do after almost 4 years of rebellion, is go and have the CAT Scale weights done of my max loaded RV and my empty Navigator
I didn't know it was possible to add a 8,000# hitch to my RV? I have no idea of what it cost, but sounds like it will cost some dough? I am guessing it will cost $3,000 to make a Navigator flat towable with Blue Ox; and that is not including estimate for a new 8,000# hitch.
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