How To Calculate Your Towing Capacity | Motorama

How To Calculate Your Towing CapacityIf your buying your next car with the intention to tow, it is vital that you are fully aware of it's capacity to tow, and what influences the actual weight.When choosing a car to tow with you, you need to consider and include all weights, including not only the weight of the car when fully loaded, but all the accessories fitted. We often think about the weight of the bull bar or the canopy, but what about the weight of the floor mats, car seat covers and other small add on's? Each of these individually might only be 4 or 5 kilos, but when all added up together, could be 20 kilos or even more.Also, if you've changed from the factory alloys and road tyres to steel rims and off road tyres, these will easily add another 20 kilos to the weight of the car.Don’t forget to include a full tank of fuel, passengers, luggage, and once a trailer is connected, the towball weight of the trailer is also then measured as part of the vehicles weight.As you can see, t...