Skoda Superb Interior space...

[Ozsko]

Why trouble? I have towed this thing thousands of K's and never had an issue. I doubt it is that heavy but then I have never weighed it.

[whitelion]

Your tow-ball weight should be 10% of your towed mass.
Sounds like your trailer isn't set up properly, or you're loading too much weight to the front!
Steve

[CanberravRS]

On the Towbar tounge it actually states that you cannot have a vertical load weight more than 75kgs


Be careful as the tow bar design is unique and not designed to have heavy unbalanced trailers.

[Ozsko]

Your tow-ball weight should be 10% of your towed mass.
Sounds like your trailer isn't set up properly, or you're loading too much weight to the front!
Steve

That sounds about right then, the trailer weighs 650KG loaded and it is most probably about 60KG on the ball. The one thing that must never happen when a trailer is set up is getting it too light on the front, instant instability.

[dazag]

That sounds about right then, the trailer weighs 650KG loaded and it is most probably about 60KG on the ball. The one thing that must never happen when a trailer is set up is getting it too light on the front, instant instability.

I thought that too ( needing weight on the towball for good trailer stability ) but a mate has a trailer that is almost perfectly balanced even when fully loaded ( 1 person using 1 hand with minimal effort to lift the trailer onto the towball ) so very little down weight on the towball and that thing tracks so well at all speeds. But he has laser tracked his axles to be perfectly aligned ( exactly the same distance) to the towhitch, so that might be the secret. Mass produced trailers are just thrown together and rely on heavy towball weight to make up for inaccurate manufacture.

[Ozsko]

What has happened in recent times to stabilise trailers is to have the axle set back so it is behind the centre line of the trailer which includes the tow bar of the trailer. This way it is being dragged straight (the best way I can describe it). Some vans are visibly set well back to achieve this. Sorry for dragging this off topic, I was only trying to illustrate the carrying/weight capacity of the car without it becoming a lot lower. It absolutely surprised me.