Good/bad experiences with Tow Vehicle Syndicates?

On 10/6/2012 5:15 PM, Dave Nadler wrote:
On Saturday, October 6, 2012 1:12:15 AM UTC-4, Andreas Maurer wrote:
Sorry?
As I mentioned in my posting, the limitations *in Germany* are
1.500/3.000 lbs.
No need to disregard any limitation.
And, no, there a re no further limitations on the length of the
trailer.

Andreas

Amazing, the Germans are switching to lbs rather than kg now...

Not so amazing - they did use a period instead of the comma. That's like
a King's X.

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On Sat, 6 Oct 2012 17:15:27 -0700 (PDT), Dave Nadler
wrote:


Amazing, the Germans are switching to lbs rather than kg now...

Sometimes one feels the need to use some kind of pidgin English to
communicate with the uneducated rest of the world.

Andreas

On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 8:41:31 PM UTC-4, Andreas Maurer wrote:

Hmmmm.... I had a Golf IV Variant in Germany, and it also had that

1.000 lbs limitation - but only if the trailer did not have brakes.



The limit for a trailer with brakes was the mentioned 3.000 lbs limit.





Could you check again if you are reading your car's manual correctly,

please? I find it hard to believe that VW is limiting its cars in such

a drastic way.

The USA tow limit is 1000 lbs with/without brakes. I confirmed this with VW USA.

I speculate the following reasons:

There is no common across all manufacturers standard method to rate towing capacity in the USA. Some companies set the tow limit high and some set it low.

Marketing - the Golf is marketed as a sporty car, not a workhorse. VW would prefer to sell the more profitable SUVs to people who tow trailers.

US Drivers - VW (correctly) does not trust US drivers to drive the recommended speed. US drivers do understand how kinetic energy increases as a function of speed.

US Topography - There are of course mountains in Europe, but the USA has mountains in the desert and relatively long towing distances in the desert.