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01-01-2019, 08:10 PM | #1 |
Drives: 2007 3 door 5MT Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: snowbirding in Tucson
Posts: 25
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I built a camping trailer and towed it to Arizona
Sharing this to inspire the curious and refute the naysayers regarding long-distance towing with a Yaris.
I built a camping/travel trailer on a $300 Harbor Freight "super duty folding trailer" frame and drove from NY to AZ over ~2 weeks last fall, about 900 pounds towed, zero issues with my '07 hatchback (on its third cross-continent trip). Yes, it's slow going over 6000 foot mountain passes, but the roads are full of vehicles with a worse power/weight ratio (e.g. semi trucks), and they do just fine too. Blog post about the trailer (written before the trip): https://blog.c-mart.in/posts/hazard-...travel-trailer Photo album of the trailer build last Spring: https://imgur.com/a/3hfjtIH Some things I've done to my Yaris:
Some shots of the trip to Arizona.. Random pee break: If this is OK, then towing 900 pounds with a Yaris is definitely OK: If this is OK (yes they are all connected) then what I'm doing is definitely OK: Sleeping at a rest stop: Stayed in St. Louis for a week to attend a conference. The motel let me to park next to the front office for security: Spent a few days in Tulsa OK to help some people from the internet build a boat: They taught me to weld, so I disabled the "tilt bed" feature on the trailer frame. Taking this slop out of the trailer tongue made the entire ride less jouncy: Somewhere in New Mexico: Final sleep on the road, I-10 in SE Arizona: Rolling into Tucson (destination and where I am currently): I've been living out of the trailer (in a friend's backyard) since October. I doubled the electrical system capacity (another AGM battery and solar panel) to take advantage of the Arizona sun and charge my Onewheel (which I use to commute to work). Later this spring I'll de-snowbird back to NY, probably via the Pacific Northwest. Last edited by grilled cheeseus; 01-01-2019 at 08:25 PM. |
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