Hi everyone!
Just picked up my Outlander PHEV three days ago, and loving it!
I have a question, does anyone here have experience with hitches and bike racks on your PHEV? I see online it's rated as 1500 lbs tow weight and 150 lbs tongue weight. However the weight of my rack plus bikes is 167 lbs. It's not a lot over, but it's over. I mean, I wouldn't put 350 lbs on it, but just wondering if the experts here have any idea or if anyone has done that.
I'm also not sure if that 150 lb rating is just a simple calculation of 10% of the tow weight, of if they've actually done tests. I also figure a tongue weight of a bike rack acts a bit differently than the tongue weight of pulling a trailer, and that the low weight of batteries in the PHEV might actually be beneficial to the tongue weight relating to a bike rack.
Is tongue weight a reflection of the capacity of the hitch, or the capacity of the vehicle? Or both? I'll be getting a hitch installed with a capacity of 350 lbs, but it's not much use if it can hold all my bikes but falls off my vehicle!
Thanks everyone !
Just picked up my Outlander PHEV three days ago, and loving it!
I have a question, does anyone here have experience with hitches and bike racks on your PHEV? I see online it's rated as 1500 lbs tow weight and 150 lbs tongue weight. However the weight of my rack plus bikes is 167 lbs. It's not a lot over, but it's over. I mean, I wouldn't put 350 lbs on it, but just wondering if the experts here have any idea or if anyone has done that.
I'm also not sure if that 150 lb rating is just a simple calculation of 10% of the tow weight, of if they've actually done tests. I also figure a tongue weight of a bike rack acts a bit differently than the tongue weight of pulling a trailer, and that the low weight of batteries in the PHEV might actually be beneficial to the tongue weight relating to a bike rack.
Is tongue weight a reflection of the capacity of the hitch, or the capacity of the vehicle? Or both? I'll be getting a hitch installed with a capacity of 350 lbs, but it's not much use if it can hold all my bikes but falls off my vehicle!
Thanks everyone !