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Subject Topic: coachman mirage 500/5
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Personselina1
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Hi All
Bit new to all this so bear with me.
I've got a peugeot 406 estate 2000 diesel and have been looking at getting a coachman mirage 500/5, I've tried looking on the whattow website to see if the car can take the weight but it doesn't list the mirage.

Anyone have any advice on this please.


PersonJusy
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Hello and welcome to the site Selina 1, i am not sure if this will be any help to you.



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Personmichael
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hi find the cars kerb weight and to be safe the caravan needs to be an MTPLM of 85% of this.

        www.cuddles.abelgratis.net/kerbweights.htm - 10k

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406 Estate In production Kerb Weight KG 85% Weight KG Max Ball Weight KG Max Towing Weight KG
1.8 2000 1310 1113 80 1300
2.0 2000 1400 1190 80 1500
2.0 Auto 2000 1495 1270 80 1500
2.2 2000 1420 1207 80 1500
3.0 V6 2000 1505 1279 80 1500
3.0 V6 Auto 2000 1525 1296 80 1500
2.0 HDi 90 2000 1380 1173 80 1500
2.0 HDi 110 2000 1425 1211 80 1500
2.2 HDi 136 2000 1678 1426 80 1500



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Persontnb1
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Do you know the weight of the Mirage? I think you should be fine towing it with the 406.

Paul


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In its time the 500/5 was reckoned to be one of the lightest caravans of its size and class. Mine was a 1990 model and I towed it quite happily with a two litre Nissan Bluebird.

Why don't you contact Coachman and see if they can help you? Otherwise you may have to spend a few quid and go on the Towsafe website,

Vic


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We have a 91 Coachman Mirage 500/5. Pretty sure the weights are 900kg unladen and 1060kg laden (ish).

We tow it with a 1.9 Passat TDI no problem at all. I think your Peugeot would be fine.


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Hi..we had a 550/5 mirage 1991. We towed with renault 21, pug806 and Zafira 1.8.  I think it weighed about 900 or there abouts.  We never had a prob with it. 

We uprgraded to a nice shiny new Avondale 6 berth a couple of years back, while we love Annie dearly...our coachman has a firm place in our hearts!

Rach



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