New Owners from AB, Canada

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Originally posted by rpodmania I personally think its a lot of bull Most smaller -mid size SUVs or Mini vans are not really made to tow trailers no matter the dealers or manufactures say

My 07 Dodge Nitro pulls well on the flats, Fredericksburg to Va beach / Nags Head.  I put it in "tow" mode.  This disables overdrive(4th gear ... kinda).  I pull at 65mph at 3000 rpms.  I would use my father's truck for any thing longer than 200 miles.  My mileage sucks, 13mpg.

Originally posted by rpodmania Hi and welcome We are r-pod owners in Edmonton also We purchased our 171 last Sept in hopes of pulling it with our 09 Santa Fe 3.3 V6

Hi rpodmania

Thanks for your information, hopefully our being more of the "just-get-away-from-from-all" types for now may mean we don't have to hit too many critical hills just yet. My issue so far is the very subtle yet noticable "bucking" motion we have on 60km roads which is less noticable on the freeway but we haven't tried it YET on any hills so our "mileage" may vary as you say.

Originally posted by rpodmania Any way this spring I purchased a used full size truck Ford F150 to pull the pod and its great and more enjoyable towing with a bigger more powerful truck

That's kind of what I was afraid of,  but you know you had to go through it and you survived, so maybe we'll have to do it too. I certainly hope I don't have to become a truck owner again but hey we need a replacement for our car, why not a truck this time. After all it's bad enough having to get back into the "camping" thing again AND tow a 3500lb retro toaster.

Originally posted by rpodmania I hope your towing experience with the Santa Fe is better than mine was Enjoy the new R-pod!

I do hope so too and many thanks for your comments. I hope we can hook up some time soon.

On the recommendation of our ArrKann trailer expert he suggested we try Black Nugget Lake Campground as our first foray back into both the camping experience and being close by. We're hoping to try for next weekend.


Tess&Brad

Originally posted by rpodmania I think more RV dealers that sell the R-pod should be educated about the tow vehicle requirements of the R-Pod.It would save a lot of frustration.And may be a bit more honest about what type of vehicle can tow the Pod comfortably instead of just trying to push the fact that its marketed as being able to be towed by a smaller tow vehicle

If I have problems with my TV/trailer type that WILL be the first thing I complain about. They want me to tow something so why bullsh*t me, it will only backfire on them in the long run. But if I can tow this thing without burning out my TV and not end up frustrated by the whole thing then they've done a good job.

If not, then not only would I not buy from them again, then:

• we'd be less inclined to ever consider dealing with the people that worked there again nor have anything to do with the company;
• no matter what they sell we would boycott them unless we had to buy from them for some reason;
  
• we would go out of our way to warn people about their sales techniques - the internet is a powerful tool nowadays.
  

But I don't want to say anything really negative until I've experienced this, that's totally unfair but as you can tell I am the ever present eternal pessimist; I think the worst yet hope for the best.

Thanks for your thoughts though

Tess