My brother has an oldmobile Bravada. It has a 4.3l vortec 195hp engine. 3.73 gears all wheel drive. He towed a 3500lb trailer from Texas to Cali. Now everything I know about vehicles tells me this thing shouldn't tow unless it has too. Now I looked at the specs and it says it can pull up to a 5k gross BRAKED trailer. Was he driving a death trap and didn't know it or is this thing fine for 5k and under?

 

I wouldn't know from reading it.

From looking at it and driving it around the block once I'd hope that I could tell, though.


If it's a short enough trailer and he has decent brakes, then it doesn't seem too bad...

 

My sister-in-law and her husband used to own a Bravada. Doesn't seem like much of a tow vehicle to me, but I guess for light trailers it would do okay. 5k seems like a bit of a load for that particular vehicle though...even with brakes.

 

My fronty is rated for 5K, I have had about 6K behind me, felt fine to me...

 

this is a little off subject but here goes.......i used to work at a olds dealer and if you rev a bravada to redline and drop it into first itll pull the front wheels off the ground a little bit

 

Sweeeet!

Automatic or manual?

 

Her we go again! Giving Begle1 some new ideas to try out. what's the police/ambulance hot line near ya Begle?

 

HELP! HELP! GRAB ME A BEER! GET HELP!

Why, there's like a number you can call or something?

 

Kinda makes ya wonder why I never buy a used vehicle.

 

Or leave your vehicle at the dealer.

 

auto
did it like 10 times
hate to be the person that bought this one.

 

this was bnib.....lol....had to gass it up and wash it so they could pick it up
dealer had 2 seperate buildings across town

 

My mother had a '97 grand cherokee that some idiot trailer salesman said she could tow a 24' TT with. She fell for it and next thing you know she's aksing me to set up the hitch for her.

I talked her into buying a equilizer hitch and I could get it to sit level but...

After I set it up for her I took her for a drive and man was she scared. Even if you could get it up to speed, the 4.0l screeming and I know the auto wasn't gonna like it. The you hit the frost heaves. She never took the trailer out of the driveway after that.

Shortly thereafter, She traded the Grand cherokee for an '03 dodge with a hemi. Much Better.

 

3500 behind the Bravada should be fine for the occasional pull.GCWR of the 4.3V6/auto/ 3.73 is 10000 lbs. All bravadas have max cooling ,they only need a hitch if it doesnt haveit already.Truck GVWR is 5300lbs,so even if Bravada is at the max of 5300lb,you still have 4700lbs left of legal trailering weight.If i did it every day i think id go with a heavier Tow vehicle.It really isnt any different than pulling 7000lbs with a 3/4 ton truck,which no one questions.

 

The BOSS owned a Bravada when I met her and towed a two-horse bumper pull behind regularly. Probably weighed 4500 fully loaded and had brakes. The Bravada wasnt enough to counter trailer sway at all, and had a hard time pulling. Wouldnt go over 50mph on the level and tore the rear end up by the time it was a lttle over a year old. I wouldnt suggest a Bravada to ANYBODY... thought it was a POS from day one......probably a good grocery-getter, but thats it.........