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Can a Toyota Prado 150 Series Kakadu tow
a Snowy River Caravans SRS Mini Caravan Range?

The Toyota Prado 150 Series Kakadu automatic diesel (2017) is rated to tow 3,000kg braked.

Yes, this pairing is inside the published ratings

The Snowy River Caravans SRS Mini Caravan Range's published ATM of 1,600kg sits 1,400kg under the Toyota Prado's 3,000kg braked towing rating.

Braked towing rating
3,000kg
The Prado, manufacturer published
Towball rating
300kg
The Prado, our estimate at 10% of the braked towing rating
ATM
1,600kg
The SRS Mini Caravan Range, maximum loaded weight, manufacturer published
Ball weight
126kg
The SRS Mini Caravan Range, manufacturer published

Checked 15 July 2026.

Important checks

  • The towball limit we hold for the Toyota Prado is our estimate at 10% of the braked towing rating. Check the compliance plate or the owner's manual for the Toyota Prado's own figure before you rely on this check.
  • We could not run the GCM check for this pairing - that is the combined weight of the loaded car and caravan together. The Toyota Prado's compliance plate or owner's manual carries its GCM figure.

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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A van with electric brakes needs a brake controller in the car. You also need towing mirrors if the van blocks the view in your car's own mirrors.

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Before you tow

The figures above are the Toyota Prado's and the Snowy River Caravans SRS Mini Caravan Range's as their makers publish them. Loaded weight goes against the braked towing rating, and ball weight against the towball rating.

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.

Where the plate is and how to read it

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.

Toyota Prado

150 Series Kakadu automatic diesel (2017)

Specs apply to 2017+ models
Tow capacity3,000kg
Ball weight limitOur estimate at 10% of tow capacity300kg
Room left under GVMGVM (gross vehicle mass) is the most the car may weigh, loaded.2,990kg GVM, less 2,455kg kerb weight and the van's 126kg ball weight.Passengers, luggage and accessories must fit in what is left.409kg

Snowy River Caravans SRS Mini Caravan Range

Starting from $32,990

Snowy River Caravans SRS Mini Caravan Range
ATM (max weight)1,600kg
Ball weight126kg

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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.