By Horness Spencer (Horness) on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 01:11 am: Edit

What's the maximum towing weight for the disovery?

2.5 TDi model, or TD5

Friend is thinking of buying one, needs to tow his boat with it.

Thanks
Horness.

By Matt on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 04:49 am: Edit

I have a 96 4.0, and the max towing weight is like 3,300 with an unbraked trailer, 5,500 for a braked trailer, and 7,500 in low range. I think those are the right numbers.

I tow a 17' center console boat, and to be quite honest, I stuggle going up hills and such. I put my boat behing a suburban once and didn't even know it was there. The disco ain't no suburban. That's good, because I don't want no suburban.

The bottom line is, the disco gets the job done for me. And on slippery launches I'm glad I have it.

What kind of boat does your boy need to tow? How big?

By stecz on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 09:42 am: Edit

I have both a Disco and a suburban (along with my Corvette, I guess I'm due for one of those "I'm changing the climate ask me how stickers)...

I tow two jet skis, behind the Suburban, you barely notice them. Behind the Disco, it doesn't have trouble towing them, but you notice them on the hills and I have to make sure the tongue weight is reasonable. On the suburban, I could have negative tongue weight and it wouldn't make any difference.