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Any help would be great.

 

I looking to pick up a 2004/2005 Colorado 3.5L 4X4, but I have concerns about towing a trailer with it. I currently have a 2002 2500HD crew cab that can tow a house if I needed to. The boat I have is small weighing about 2500 lbs. But if you read the Colorado's sales book it talks about trailers over 1000lbs needing their own brakes. Has anyone out their done any trailering with a 3.5L Colorado? What's the feeling? How is stopping? any info helps.

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Mike

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I have not personally towed with the Colorado or Canyon, but adding an electric trailer control to the truck is very easy. As far as adding it to your trailer, that's a different issue.

 

Hope this helps.

naskie18 Enthusiast

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Not sure if you saw my reply over on colorado fans or not, but here's another copy if it.

 

13 hours straight (except stopping for fuel refills and bathroom breaks...darn women can't go 3 hours without having to pee), and no problems. Plenty of power going through the mountains in PA, never hit halfway on the temp guage. I think my average speed on the freeway was about 75, got a whopping 15mpg, although I guess while towing at 75, thats not too shabby ;) Still had plenty of stopping power, I pulled off the freeway for a big and stopped in one of those "Emergeny stopping" areas off the PA turnpike and took a 15 minute nap 'cuz I was starting to fall asleep.

 

Dunno how much difference towing a boat on a trailer would be than towing a car packed full of stuff on a car dolley, but there's my experience for ya.

 

frontpassenger.jpg

 

rearpassenger.jpg

 

Thats a U-haul dolley, an '89 Olds Delta 88 with a computer and 17" monitor, 27" tv, 13" tv, and a bunch of other stuff crammed into it. The rest of my girlfriends stuff is packed into the bed of the truck.

 

More info on the other board if you're interested. Can't post the link here because the dictators have decided to not even allow linking to images or other threads at another forum. :thumbs:

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Z71_rado Enthusiast

Z71_rado

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Not sure if you saw my reply over on colorado fans or not, but here's another copy if it.

 

 

Dunno how much difference towing a boat on a trailer would be than towing a car packed full of stuff on a car dolley, but there's my experience for ya.

 

frontpassenger.jpg

 

rearpassenger.jpg

 

Thats a U-haul dolley, an '89 Olds Delta 88 with a computer and 17" monitor, 27" tv, 13" tv, and a bunch of other stuff crammed into it. The rest of my girlfriends stuff is packed into the bed of the truck.

 

More info on the other board if you're interested. Can't post the link here because the dictators have decided to not even allow linking to images or other threads at another forum. :D

what was the entire weight w/the car and trailer? - thanks I too am very interested in this. I'll be towing a vehicle on a flatbed...

Frank S Senior Enthusiast

Frank S

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Not sure if you saw my reply over on colorado fans or not, but here's another copy if it.

 

13 hours straight (except stopping for fuel refills and bathroom breaks...darn women can't go 3 hours without having to pee), and no problems. Plenty of power going through the mountains in PA, never hit halfway on the temp guage. I think my average speed on the freeway was about 75, got a whopping 15mpg, although I guess while towing at 75, thats not too shabby ;) Still had plenty of stopping power, I pulled off the freeway for a big and stopped in one of those "Emergeny stopping" areas off the PA turnpike and took a 15 minute nap 'cuz I was starting to fall asleep.

 

Dunno how much difference towing a boat on a trailer would be than towing a car packed full of stuff on a car dolley, but there's my experience for ya.

 

frontpassenger.jpg

 

rearpassenger.jpg

 

Thats a U-haul dolley, an '89 Olds Delta 88 with a computer and 17" monitor, 27" tv, 13" tv, and a bunch of other stuff crammed into it. The rest of my girlfriends stuff is packed into the bed of the truck.

 

More info on the other board if you're interested. Can't post the link here because the dictators have decided to not even allow linking to images or other threads at another forum. :D

Calm down on your "dictator" comment please as I believe that there has been a misunderstanding on the issue regarding the linking of other sites.

 

Discussions have been under way to rectify the situation and will be resolved soon.

blue2kzr2 Enthusiast

blue2kzr2

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I'm pretty sure GM lists the Max towing weight at 4,000 for these trucks, in the most towing-friendly configurations. Smaller engines, different gears, lack of tow package will lower the rating from 4,000.

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snomien New Member

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My Colorado tows a boat quite often. The boat is a 16.5' fiberglass hull with a 175hp Merc jet drive. The biggest problem I have with it is the passengers floor gets really hot. The dealer says it is the catalytic converter getting hot. Anyhow it's getting a transmission cooler installed on top of the cheezy integrated one.

 

The p/u has the I-5 with auto tranny. With that setup it will not tow in drive very well at 65 to 70 MPH. If driving at 60 towing in drive is no problem. We don't have any real hills around here though.

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