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Can an Audi Q7 tow
a Kedron Caravans TE5 Topender?

4M (TDI V6) (2015), checked against the manufacturer's published figures.

Close to the limits

The Kedron Caravans TE5 Topender's published ATM of 3,500kg exactly matches the Audi Q7's braked towing rating.

Braked towing ratingThe Audi Q7, manufacturer published
3,500kg
Towball ratingThe Audi Q7, manufacturer published
350kg
ATMThe Kedron Caravans TE5 Topender, maximum loaded weight, manufacturer published
3,500kg

Figures are the manufacturer's published ratings.

Possible, but close to the limits

Loaded to its published ATM, the Kedron Caravans TE5 Topender uses all but 0kg of what the Audi Q7 is rated to tow, so there is little room left for what you pack.

This is a guide off published figures, not a compliance check.The legal numbers are the compliance plates on your car and the van. Weigh the loaded rig at a public weighbridge to know for sure, then read the ticket.

The figures above are the Audi Q7's and the Kedron Caravans TE5 Topender's as their makers publish them, set against each other the same way an inspector would: loaded weight against braked towing rating, ball weight against towball rating.

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Audi Q7

4M (TDI V6) (2015)

Specs apply to 2015-2025 models
Tow capacity3,500kg
Ball weight limit350kg
GCM6,680kg

Kedron Caravans TE5 Topender

Price on application

TE5 Topender
ATM (max weight)3,500kg
Ball weightEstimated at 10% of ATM350kg

Always check your compliance plate

Online databases use factory-standard specs. They don't know about your bullbar (adds weight), suspension upgrades (can change GCM), or how much you're carrying.

How to find it

Open your passenger or driver door. Look for a silver or black metal plate riveted to the pillar. This plate overrides everything you read online.

Why the numbers move once you load up

The figure most often left out of the sum is payload, which is everything you add after the vehicles leave the factory.

  • Bullbar and winch: both add weight to the front of the car, and it comes out of your payload.
  • Passengers: everyone in the car comes out of its payload, not just the driver.
  • Tow ball mass: this comes out of your car's payload, not just your towing limit.

Always weigh your rig fully loaded.

Where to get it weighed, and what the ticket tells you.

This pairing is inside the published ratings, with not much room left.

Improve your stability

The published weights sit close together here. A weight distribution hitch spreads some of the towball load onto the car's front axle, which is what the ball weight takes off it.

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Treat this as a guide off published figures, not a compliance check.The legal numbers are the compliance plates on your car and the van, and where we do not hold a published ball weight we estimate it at 10% of ATM.Weigh the loaded rig at a public weighbridge to know for sure, then read the ticket.

Every figure here describes the two vehicles as they left the factory. Yours has a history since then, and the plates on it are what that history gets measured against.