Our Aliner is lightweight, but because our tow vehicle has a very low tow rating, it´s been important to keep the weight of both our baby SUV and our camper trailer at a minimum.
Photo of a gray and black Honda Element and an
Aliner Scout in a wooded campsite.
We did several things immediately to keep these weights down.
There is a huge amount of information about towing a camper on the internet, most of it confusing and contradictory. If you have a massive truck, you´ll likely not have to think twice about towing a light camper like an Aliner. If you drive an elderly Element, as we do, you probably need to think very carefully about what you are doing.
Photo of a folded Aliner Scout backed into a campsite
behind a gray and black Honda Element
I´m not going to cover any specifics about all of the various methods of figuring out
what´s a safe weight to tow: tongue weight, various ratings, or so on. All I will cover here is how we determined if we felt that we could tow our Aliner Scout safely. Your mileage (quite literally) may vary!