Can a Toyota Prado tow
a Royal Flair Caravans PD Series?
250 Series (New Gen) (2024), checked against published figures.
No
The Royal Flair Caravans PD Series's published ATM of 4,500kg is 1,000kg above the Toyota Prado's 3,500kg braked towing rating.
The Royal Flair Caravans PD Series would sit above the Toyota Prado's 350kg towball rating at a ball weight of 10% of ATM. That is our estimate, not a published figure. Ask the manufacturer for theirs.
- Braked towing ratingThe Toyota Prado, manufacturer published
- 3,500kg
- Towball ratingThe Toyota Prado, our estimate at 10% of the braked towing rating
- 350kg
- ATMThe Royal Flair Caravans PD Series, maximum loaded weight, manufacturer published
- 4,500kg
Figures are the manufacturer's published ratings, apart from the towball rating, which is our estimate.
No - this pairing is outside the published ratings
The Royal Flair Caravans PD Series at its published ATM is 1,000kg heavier than the Toyota Prado is rated to tow.
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Important checks
- The Royal Flair Caravans PD Series would put 100kg more on the towball than the Toyota Prado is rated to carry. That uses an estimated ball weight of 450kg, which is 10% of ATM rather than a published 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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Three published figures decide it for the Toyota Prado and the Royal Flair Caravans PD Series: the caravan's weight fully loaded, the weight it puts on the towball, and the combined limit the car holds for the two together.
Toyota Prado
250 Series (New Gen) (2024)
Royal Flair Caravans PD Series
Starting from $101,518
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.
The answer above is a No on the published figures.
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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. 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.