On a daily basis I see people making errors pulling trailers with way too much weight and size. Just because the vehicle moves the trailer, don't think it's necessarily safe or that you're not causing damage to your HHR. As someone said earlier, the transmissions is at risk the most.

A friend took one of those flatbed trailers to a lumber yard to buy some railroad ties. He pulled the trailer with a Jeep Wrangler. The salesman convince him the ties were within his tongue weight standards. However, when he started up one of the many elevated bridges in Florida, the front end lifted off the ground, he lost control, the trailer jackknifed, and he hit another vehicle. No one was injured but he now pulls that trailer with a full-size Dodge PU.

 

I would upgrade the tranny cooler before I even put a hitch on.

Or buy a cheap truck to insure part time.

 

If you don't know how to visually tell if you are overloaded, then you should not be towing anything. If this "person" wheelied cause his tougue weight was over by that much, he needs to have his reciever removed. That is why towing has gotten such a bad name in a lot of circumstances, people towing and hauling large loads with vehicles not capable of it and the driver having no clue on what they are doing.

Sorry, but this is just another one of the stupid things people with trucks/SUV's do that just piss the hell out of me. You should know your vehicles limits, not what a "salesman" tells you.

 

I tow a jet ski that is just over 1000 lbs when fueled up and it towes no problem . Pulling out of the boat ramp is not a problem either . I'm not talking around the corner either. I've towed it a couple hundred miles.

 

I wonder if the HHR would give the swamp buggies a run for their money?