2014 Dodge Durango V6 with a TT 5200 lbs?

 

Is it?

 

Are you asking if towing a 5200lb (dry weight?) travel trailer is too heavy to tow with a 2014 Durango V6? Have you checked the owner's manual? Do you have the towing package from the factory on your Durango? How long is the TT? What types of terrain will you be encountering while towing?

The more information you can provide to the forum, the better the more useful the responses will be to help you get answers quickly.

-Rod

 

The TT is 5200 lbs. (dry weight) and a length 26 feet. The owner's manual , it is written that the tow capacity is 6200 lbs. Thank you!

 

Honestly, I think you'll find that TT is too large to comfortably tow with a V6 Durango, especially once you're loaded for camping. If you are only camping nearby and the terrain is very flat between your starting and ending points, this will be quite a strain on the V6.

I have a 30' TT that is 5600 lbs dry and pulling it with my Hemi Durango was not pleasant. At highway speeds the wind resistance of the TT became very noticeable and hills were quite a struggle. I traded my Durango in on a Ram 1500 Hemi and it's a night and day difference with towing.

-Rod

 

Now that we understand the question, properly equipped, you might be fine. If your trailer weight, tanks full and loaded with all your gear, remains under 6200 lbs, you're not looking at towing in the mountains and you use a properly set up weight distributing hitch.

I tow a 25' Airstream (which is aerodynamic, so it tows more easily than a box) that weights 6600 lbs. fully loaded. But I have a hemi. I regularly tow in the mountains out west, but I'm not setting and speed records- I can keep up with the speed limit on the steepest passes.

The only way to know for sure is to take everything to scales and weigh it. That way you can see if individual axle weights and total weights are within limits.

 

Depends on the TT's

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I have the RT with tow package, and that size/weight camper. The Hemi has the power and braking is acceptable with the electric trailer brakes on my Jayco Jay Feather 26BHS. However the sway from uneven roads and wind make it pretty lousy if conditions aren't ideal. I don't have a weight distributing / anti sway hitch (plan to get one in the spring unless we get wife a new pick up) and would not drive the rig over 60mph and only for short distances as it is set up now.

Unless the fancy hitch that I don't have works miracles, you aren't going to like how that works.

Side note: I recently saw an Equinox (that's rated for 1500 lbs towing) pulling an older 28' or so trailer. Had to have been a 6000 lb trailer, probably more. That was interesting. The back wheels of the equinox were actually angled inward with the amount of weight on them. Bumper nearly on the ground. Wish I had a pic for you guys.

 

Get one and those problems will go away.