Can a Subaru Forester tow
an Avan Campers Caravans & Motorhomes Aspire 500 Series Pop Top?
AWD Premium (2.5i, 6th Gen) (2024), checked against the manufacturer's published figures.
Close to the limits
The Avan Campers Caravans & Motorhomes Aspire 500 Series Pop Top's published ATM of 1,700kg sits 100kg under the Subaru Forester's 1,800kg braked towing rating.
- Braked towing ratingThe Subaru Forester, manufacturer published
- 1,800kg
- Towball ratingThe Subaru Forester, manufacturer published
- 180kg
- ATMThe Avan Campers Caravans & Motorhomes Aspire 500 Series Pop Top, maximum loaded weight, manufacturer published
- 1,700kg
- Ball weightThe Avan Campers Caravans & Motorhomes Aspire 500 Series Pop Top, manufacturer published
- 145kg
Figures are the manufacturer's published ratings.
Inside the published limits, and close to them
At its published ATM the Avan Campers Caravans & Motorhomes Aspire 500 Series Pop Top is 100kg inside what the Subaru Forester is rated to tow.
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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 weights are enforced against the plates on the two vehicles. The comparison above puts the Avan Campers Caravans & Motorhomes Aspire 500 Series Pop Top's published weights next to the Subaru Forester's published ratings, so you know which numbers to look for on those plates.
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Subaru Forester
AWD Premium (2.5i, 6th Gen) (2024)
Avan Campers Caravans & Motorhomes Aspire 500 Series Pop Top
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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. 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, 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.
Always weigh your rig fully loaded.
This pairing is inside the published ratings, with not much room left.
Gear for a van close to your limits
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.
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What towing this pair needs
A weight distribution hitch is worth pricing. The Avan Campers Caravans & Motorhomes Aspire 500 Series Pop Top's 145kg ball weight uses 81% of the Subaru Forester's 180kg towball limit.
How to choose one →
Figures come from the makers' published specs for this exact pairing.
This is a guide off the makers' published figures.The legal numbers are the compliance plates on your car and the van. 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.
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.