Did the first trip in my truck, 2,100 miles round trip, of which 1,600 were with the trailer. Trailer is Grand Design Momentum 29GS loaded with Can-Am Maverick Sport XRC. This is about 11,200k lb on the trailer axles, and around 10,500 lb GVWR on the truck. (So right about 22k lb GCWR.)
The trip went from Tulsa through Missouri, edge of Illinois into Kentucky. Camped there for two nights at Land Between the Lakes. After this we went to Windrock Off-Road park, northwest of Knoxville. Camped there and left the trailer, headed to Gatlinburg where we spent a few days touring the Great Smoky Mountains including a portion of the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina. Went back to Windrock and rode/camped for a several days and then took I-40 back to Oklahoma through Nashville, Memphis and Little Rock. We averaged 9 mpg towing.
Truck Highlights:
- Power! Truck ran perfect
- Mileage/Range; had a couple of tanks over 250 miles between fills, normally I stop more frequently than that anyway
- The exhaust brake work really nice, preferred On for towing and Auto empty
- Temperatures. Only noticed the coolant and engine oil creep up once and the fan came and brought them right down. That was highway speeds in Arkansas at 96 degrees. Transmission basically stayed at 222 deg F no matter what.
- Right turn mirror camera coming on with the signal light. That is amazing for tight maneuvering/lane changes
- Integrated trailer TPMS and trailer camera
_ The Trailer Pro automatically aligning the trailer ball for hooking up was amazing, perfect every time
- Comfort, seats are great, big sunroof was nice with the Starlink mini in
it, lots of charging ports, outlets, etc.
- Gauges show virtually everything
- Heads up display with Gear/tach/brake gain is great
- Trailer display with mileage/mpg/pitch is kind of nice
- 3 memory settings allow the "Trailer" to be one of the settings so the mirrors are quick to move from regular to towing
Truck Lowlights: (mainly niggles more than lowlights)
- DEF warning at 499 miles remaining and every 40 or so miles after, beginning at 80% full (gave up and just put in a gallon or two of DEF every fuel up rather than the annoying light and warning.)
- A bit finicky to get to the trailer TPMS (I like to watch temperatures, and it's several button pushes to and back from My View, the My View trailer page is the same page as the tow haul gauges)
- Have to manually select the trailer camera when put in reverse rather than the truck camera
- Having to turn off trailer sway control ever ignition cycle rather than setting in the trailer settings
- Would like to have an EGT gauge (had a hard pull up the Windrock campground and had to stop to check in right at the top of the hill. I just left it idled but would have been curious to see how quickly it cooled down to a safe temperature to kill the engine.)
- That's probably about it.
The trip went from Tulsa through Missouri, edge of Illinois into Kentucky. Camped there for two nights at Land Between the Lakes. After this we went to Windrock Off-Road park, northwest of Knoxville. Camped there and left the trailer, headed to Gatlinburg where we spent a few days touring the Great Smoky Mountains including a portion of the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina. Went back to Windrock and rode/camped for a several days and then took I-40 back to Oklahoma through Nashville, Memphis and Little Rock. We averaged 9 mpg towing.
Truck Highlights:
- Power! Truck ran perfect
- Mileage/Range; had a couple of tanks over 250 miles between fills, normally I stop more frequently than that anyway
- The exhaust brake work really nice, preferred On for towing and Auto empty
- Temperatures. Only noticed the coolant and engine oil creep up once and the fan came and brought them right down. That was highway speeds in Arkansas at 96 degrees. Transmission basically stayed at 222 deg F no matter what.
- Right turn mirror camera coming on with the signal light. That is amazing for tight maneuvering/lane changes
- Integrated trailer TPMS and trailer camera
_ The Trailer Pro automatically aligning the trailer ball for hooking up was amazing, perfect every time
- Comfort, seats are great, big sunroof was nice with the Starlink mini in
it, lots of charging ports, outlets, etc.
- Gauges show virtually everything
- Heads up display with Gear/tach/brake gain is great
- Trailer display with mileage/mpg/pitch is kind of nice
- 3 memory settings allow the "Trailer" to be one of the settings so the mirrors are quick to move from regular to towing
Truck Lowlights: (mainly niggles more than lowlights)
- DEF warning at 499 miles remaining and every 40 or so miles after, beginning at 80% full (gave up and just put in a gallon or two of DEF every fuel up rather than the annoying light and warning.)
- A bit finicky to get to the trailer TPMS (I like to watch temperatures, and it's several button pushes to and back from My View, the My View trailer page is the same page as the tow haul gauges)
- Have to manually select the trailer camera when put in reverse rather than the truck camera
- Having to turn off trailer sway control ever ignition cycle rather than setting in the trailer settings
- Would like to have an EGT gauge (had a hard pull up the Windrock campground and had to stop to check in right at the top of the hill. I just left it idled but would have been curious to see how quickly it cooled down to a safe temperature to kill the engine.)
- That's probably about it.
