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Originally Posted by hillary
We've had our Escape 17B for a couple of months now and have taken it out for two long weekends, two humans and two medium size dogs. I think it's the perfect size, and we're also towing with a Sienna. I wouldn't want to tow the 19' Escape with a Sienna,
...we don't feel like there's a lot of power left with the 17!
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Our 2004 Sienna is the same (minus the AWD), and our wider
Boler has more drag, but we found the Sienna performance fine - we don't hold up traffic in the mountains and we pass most other trailers up grades.
No one is right or wrong here; my point is just that people have different expectations of performance. I do agree that a 19' is pushing at least up to the vehicle's comfortable capacity.
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Originally Posted by hillary
I wouldn't want to tow the 19' Escape with a Sienna, you'd definitely be exceeding the GVWR...
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I'm not sure why the Gross Vehicle
Weight Rating would be exceeded, unless the hitch
weight is very high.
Did you mean Gross Combined
Weight Rating (GCWR, total of loaded van and loaded trailer)? A 2004+ Sienna can tow a 3500 pound trailer while carrying hundreds of pounds of passengers and cargo and stay within the GCWR. It would be easy to load an Escape well past 3500 pounds, so attention is required in this respect, as with most rigs... especially if carrying a lot of people or cargo.
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Originally Posted by hillary
The Sienna is definitely more limiting in clearance than the trailer, ours is AWD so the differential is possibly a little lower than the FWD version.
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The AWD has slightly taller springs, and has no more of a clearance issue than the 2WD... good point, but Toyota thought of that.