winefam
Napa Valley, California
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If so, what TT are you towing?
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benbovac
KY
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I used to tow the trailer in my sig with an 06 Yukon Denali.
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ksd
Medina, MN
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benbovac wrote:I used to tow the trailer in my sig with an 06 Yukon Denali.
Really? A 30 foot trailer with a slide behind a Yukon Denali?
I ask because we used to own a 2002 Yukon XL Denali. We started looking at travel trailers, and realized that we had a big problem -- payload capacity. I don't remember the details, but as I recall, our Yukon XL Denali didn't have that much payload capacity. It was basically a 1/2 ton chassis with a LOT of equipment on it. And the 28-30 foot bunkhouse trailers we liked weighed WAY too much to hang off the back of it.
We just bought a 2006 3/4 ton Suburban, specifically because when I ran the numbers, I always determined that the 3/4 ton chassis was necessary to handle the tongue weight of a 6000+ pound trailer.
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HighCover
Fort Worth
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See signature line...
2007 Tahoe, 5.3L
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BCForest
Kamloops, British Columbia
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I use my 2005 Tahoe as a TV, but my TT (Kodiak Ultralite) is 4640lbs dry and max 6000lbs. Just got back from 10 days on the road (in the mountains of British Columbia)
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datawire
Lower Arkansas
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We have towed a 30 foot Bunkhouse - loaded to the gills - with a 6.0 Yukon XL Denali for 2 years with this TT, and the same setup with the previous 29 ft. Bunkhouse. Never any problems - but the gas mileage is pathetic. Trip lengths from 30 to 1200 miles (one way).
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ksd
Medina, MN
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I find it hard to believe that anyone can be towing a 29+ foot travel trailer with a Yukon Denali of XL Denali and not be overloaded, unless you have an unusually light trailer, and travel with pretty much nothing in the TV other than the driver and perhaps one passenger. These are vehicles that have less than 1,500 pounds payload capacity, and less than 1,100 pounds of rear axle capacity.
That's why we sold our Yukon XL Denali and ultimately bought the Suburban 3/4 ton -- we wanted a large bunkhouse trailer for our family of five, and I wasn't willing to overload the TV to pull it.
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bluwtr49
Green Valley, AZ
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I looked at both the Yukon Danali and the Sierra Denali very closely. Yes the payload may be a concern but the tow rating was such that most anything that the vehicle could tow would not have enough of a tonque wt to overload the payload. Worse case was a 1,000 lb TW which would contribute ~750 lbs afte W/D. Our standard at the time was a Jayfeather 29 rear living with a TW of ~960 lbs.
For our loading, the Denali would have worked just fine execpt we wanted a higher tow rating. Hence the Tundra.
IMHO, GMC is really short sighted in not offering the HD tow package in the Denali packages.
Dick
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