I bought it with this light camper in mind so I'm ok with it. We removed a few unnecessary things from it and dropped about 300 lbs.
What camper is that?
It's an 06 palomino pony 280.
Thanks. I figured I'd share the experience and someone could learn something from it or ask some questions.
Hello, thank you for the post, and the great photos! That blue is much nicer than my first impression of it, just saw one "in the wild" also. Hoping to get my new hybrid in Cactus Grey soon!Hello. I just got back from a short trip and thought I'd share the experience with anyone who's interested in towing with their hybrid.
I am at a fairly low elevation in Las Vegas. App. 2000ft. We decided to spend the night at a nearby mountain range. At the final stop we were at 8700 ft.
The first thousand feet was a slow climb that was about 20 miles so it didnt take much effort and we could hardly feel the app. 2000 lb trailer.
The last stretch was very steep and went up about 5000ft in 40 miles.
I had it in tow mode and it was similar to sport mode in that it gave a good amount of power immediately and never went into electric mode while moving. Didnt notice any other characteristics from tow mode.
On the way there we were doing about 65 mph around a long bouncy curve and the trailer started swaying pretty bad, enough to where I had to counter steer a bit to keep the truck in the lane. At about 3 corrections in and no throttle or brake input a message came on the dash and said trailer sway detected and the truck applied the brakes and corrected the sway. I found that interesting.
The trip home was much easier and was 99٪ downhill. I did notice one thing I was not a fan of. During the initial downgrade the truck was using the engine to help slow down when the brakes were applied. Normally I wouldnt mind but I didnt want it wound up like that for 40 miles. I switched between modes to try to correct it but all of them tried to assist. I'd rather replace brake pads and rotors over unnecessary engine wear.
You took the words out of my mouth lol."Why is it keeping me from cooking the brakes? I'd rather cook my brakes and lose all braking power down a mountain!"
The single axle trailers tend to sway at different speeds. Get a anti sway kit like this picture, I have the 1 from harbor freight. And then the hitch with the tab on the side. If you don't want to buy both the anti sway kit comes with the tab to Weld on to your existing hitch. They work amazing.
Nice thanks, I'll look into those. I did notice it swaying even at lower speeds.The single axle trailers tend to sway at different speeds. Get a anti sway kit like this picture, I have the 1 from harbor freight. And then the hitch with the tab on the side. If you don't want to buy both the anti sway kit comes with the tab to Weld on to your existing hitch. They work amazing.
While I can't speak to the hybrid but I have the ecoboost FX4 AWD with 4k package and can say from personal experience that it tows more than 4k without a problem I wouldn't recommend you climb a 20% grade for miles on end while doing it but I didn't notice the truck having a problem when I towed almost 5k. Like I said I wasn't going up super steep grades with it either but normal driving going from point A to B In my experience it will do 5k pretty easily and imlive in Maine which isn't flat ground
