Can a Mitsubishi Challenger PB 5-seat tow
a Legend Caravans Legend Ultimate Hybrid ERV?
The Mitsubishi Challenger PB 5-speed automatic 2.5L diesel, 5-seat (2009) is rated to tow 3,000kg braked.
Its towball limit is 300kg.
Legend Ultimate Hybrid ERV: Close to the limits
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The Legend Caravans Legend Ultimate Hybrid ERV's published ATM of 3,000kg exactly matches the Mitsubishi Challenger's braked towing rating.
- Braked towing rating
- 3,000kg
- The Challenger, manufacturer published
- Towball rating
- 300kg
- The Challenger, manufacturer published
- ATM
- 3,000kg
- The Legend Ultimate Hybrid ERV, maximum loaded weight, manufacturer published
Important checks
- This check used an estimated ball weight for the Legend Caravans Legend Ultimate Hybrid ERV - 10% of its ATM rather than a published figure. Check the van's compliance plate before you rely on it.
This is a guide off the makers' published figures.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.
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Towing a van close to your limits
This pairing is inside the published ratings, with not much room left.
The published weights sit close together here. A weight distribution hitch moves some of the towball load onto the car's front axle, which is where the ball weight takes it from. Some car makers advise against one, or approve only their own. Check your handbook before you buy one.
Before you tow
Towing weights are enforced against the plates on the two vehicles. The comparison above puts the Legend Caravans Legend Ultimate Hybrid ERV's published weights next to the Mitsubishi Challenger's published ratings, so you know which numbers to look for on those plates.
Always check your compliance plate
Online databases use factory-standard specs. They do not know about the bullbar on your car, a suspension upgrade, or how much you are carrying. Each one changes your real limits.
How to find it
Open your passenger or driver door. Look for a silver or black metal plate riveted to the pillar.
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, including the driver, comes out of its payload.
- Ball weight: the weight the van puts on the towball comes out of your car's payload as well as its towing limit.
Work out what this van is allowed to carry, then check the figures before you pack it.
Learn to tow on a course
An instructor can teach you to hitch up, reverse and handle a loaded van before your first trip.
- Tow-EdNSW, ACT, Queensland, South Australia and Victoria
A nationally recognised one-day towing course, in your own car and van or a hired trailer.
- RACQMount Cotton, south of Brisbane
A caravan workshop on a closed course, with a weight check of your rig.
- RAASouth Australia, at a place you choose
Safe caravan and trailer use, taught in your own rig.
- RACPerth, WA
Tow Safe sessions on reversing and hitching, with the car and van supplied.
Mitsubishi Challenger
PB 5-speed automatic 2.5L diesel, 5-seat (2009)
Legend Caravans Legend Ultimate Hybrid ERV
Price on application
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Where the published weights sit close together, how you pack changes what the scales say. Heavy items ride best low down and over the caravan's axles, and whatever sits on the towball is carried by the car rather than by the van.