So been looking at trucks but I live in the hills and not a lot of room to back the boat into the drive way. I have a 95 F150 extra cab standard bed just to give a size idea. Been wanting a JK for awhile now but wondering how a v6 will tow a 18 foot jet.

So anyone that is who could give me info that would be great

Thanks

Kroggy use to tow his Carrera eclipse with his Nissan frontier V6 and from what he said it did just fine and he use to hit Parker.


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I'd stay away from a 6 cylinder unless it's a Cummins!

My wife has a JK unlimited Rubi and I've towed my 16' whaler with it and we got it there but it wasn't fun. The 6 cylinder just wasn't enough, not for me anyways and the breaking was a little sketchy at times (no breaks on the trailer). I also had an '06 Tacoma with the V6 and at that time I was towing a Mastercraft Prostar 190. Took it to the river a few times with that truck and the hills sucked.

Rolling this thing now and it doesn't even know it's got anything back there...

Had a v6 ford exploder. 18 foot. Enough said

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I tow a 19 commander with my wife's 2010 ford edge no problem


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I used to tow an 18 jet with an 01 tacoma 4 dr v6 and it didn't take long to zap allot of life or of it.

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I tow with a 01 pathfinder 3.5 the hills are scary if you lose momentum from people cutting you off


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I towed my old 18ft with a lowered 03 trailblazer and it did fine. Got a little hot going up hills 


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I towed my 18 ft Horizon to the lake and river several times with 2 different Toyota trucks back in the 80's.  One was 2WD and one was 4x4, both manual trans rigs.  Never got hot and handled Chiriaco grade with no drama.  Honestly, I was much more nervous about having to panic brake for something more than and problems with not enough power.   Trips with the boat just required a bit more patience.

Ya is it a front wheel drive rav or all wheel drive eather way would not recommend that


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Ya is it a front wheel drive rav or all wheel drive eather way would not recommend that


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Thought the rav was only allowed to tow 4k lbs??? Where's dot when you need them. Shut that man down post haste. My hat off to you Toyota man

I know there's a lot of V6's that can do the job but I'll continue to try and steer you away from a JK if you plan to tow with it. My Rubicon is only rated at 3500 lbs. towing and I'm telling you that's pushing it. Every manufacturer makes a bitchen' V6 that's capable but the combination in the JK isn't set up for towing. I'd avoid it if you plan on it being your tow vehicle.

In the next year or two we're going to have so many awesome options. Dodge has already brought out their V6 turbo diesel in their 1500 and Grand Cherokee. My parents have the new Grand Cherokee and it's badass but we had to lecture my mom for a couple weeks to make sure she knew to only use the green handled pump at the gas station. I hear both Toyota and Nissan will have an inline 5 cylinder cummins in their half ton trucks. We love our jeep but for your purposes I think there's better options.


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Just trying to look out for you please get a nother tow rig rav is not made for towing boats their wheel base is to short ya Toyota sayes it has towing capacity but I have seen to many jack knifed rav s I see stuff like that all the time at the dealer


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