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Can a Toyota Tarago tow
an Eagle Camper Trailers Cherokee LW?

The Toyota Tarago V6 / 2.4L (2006) is rated to tow 1,600kg braked.

Inside the published limits, and close to them

The Eagle Camper Trailers Cherokee LW's published ATM of 1,500kg sits 100kg under the Toyota Tarago's 1,600kg braked towing rating.

Braked towing rating
1,600kg
The Tarago, manufacturer published
Towball rating
160kg
The Tarago, our estimate at 10% of the braked towing rating
ATM
1,500kg
The Cherokee LW, maximum loaded weight, manufacturer published

Important checks

  • This check used an estimated ball weight for the Eagle Camper Trailers Cherokee LW - 10% of its ATM rather than a published figure. Check the van's compliance plate before you rely on it.
  • The towball limit we hold for the Toyota Tarago is our estimate at 10% of the braked towing rating. Check the compliance plate or the owner's manual for the Toyota Tarago's own figure before you rely on this check.

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

Three published figures decide it for the Toyota Tarago and the Eagle Camper Trailers Cherokee LW: the caravan's weight fully loaded, the weight it puts on the towball, and the combined limit the car holds for the two together.

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 Tarago

V6 / 2.4L (2006)

Specs apply to 2006-2019 models
Tow capacity1,600kg
Ball weight limitOur estimate at 10% of tow capacity160kg
GCM (car and van together)4,100kg

Eagle Camper Trailers Cherokee LW

Starting from $30,990

Eagle Camper Trailers Cherokee LW
ATM (max weight)1,500kg
Ball weightEstimated at 10% of ATM150kg

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These are factory figures for a standard vehicle. A bullbar, a winch, a second battery or a full water tank all come out of what you have left to carry.