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I have recently taken delivery of a Cherokee Jeep and towed my Hobby 560UK at the weekend for the 1st time. I have followed all of the usual advice with regard to loading my van correctly, but despite following this advice,it started to snake at about 50mph ! I appreciate this is our legal towing limit, but for re-assurance purposes I would like to ensure my outfit has something in reserve. Does anybody have any advice/guidance they could pass onto me to ensure better stability?? Thx in advance for the help.  

Dear John

I am not an expert by any means but 2 very basic things. Is your Nose weight correct & is the tow ball height correct, level or slightly nose down (stops excess wind getting under the van) is best I think.

Hope this helps

JonB

The maximum towing limits are 60 on dual carriageways and motorways!

What kind of stabiliser are you using?

Hi,

 I may be mistaken with this but isn't your caravan too wide to be towed by a Jeep Cherokee. I looked on the Hobby website and a 560UK 'Excellent' Caravan is 250cms wide. I appreciate that you may have another model but I thought the 560's were all 250cms wide! As I understand it you can only tow these vans with something that has a kerb weight over 3500kg as the legal limit for something with less weight is 230cms.

I don't know if this has any bearing on your problem though.

I don't know whether this matters to you or not but thought I would point it out and sorry if I have this wrong.

Cheers

Steve

Quote: Originally posted by IainM on 30/03/2005

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The maximum towing limits are 60 on dual carriageways and motorways!

 

What kind of stabiliser are you using?

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Hi John,

What model Cherokee Jeep do you have?

John,

That is exactly the same model as we have, 3.1 Turbo Diesel Grand Cherokee Limited with automatic gearbox, and we tow a twin axle caravan at 60-70mph no problem at all with no snaking.

So you should have no problems with the tow car and you need to be looking at the caravan ,sorry I can't be of more help