Towing with a rental Tahoe

DenaliCountry · Nov 4, 2024

I am flying to Chicago to pick up a new to me enclosed snowmobile trailer and driving back to Minnesota. I confirmed with my insurance company that the rental car and trailer are covered from a liability standpoint + my umbrella policy. Trailer will also get full coverage before I hit the road. I gave my agent all the particulars to make sure it was fully aware of what I was planning to do.

Anyone done this before? Any other concerns to be aware of?

Thank you.

Rich_v · Nov 4, 2024

It is usually prohibited in the rental contract.

You may want to rent a truck where towing is acceptable.

OR VietVet · Nov 4, 2024

Yea, just because your insurance has no problem with it, does not mean the rental company would not. Do you even know the weight you will be towing? If is an empty trailer, you will likely be ok with the rental company but do not assume.

DenaliCountry · Nov 4, 2024

OR VietVet said:
Yea, just because your insurance has no problem with it, does not mean the rental company would not. Do you even know the weight you will be towing? If is an empty trailer, you will likely be ok with the rental company but do not assume.

Trailer is 2500#'s empty.

OR VietVet · Nov 4, 2024

Still gotta check with rental company.

B-train · Nov 4, 2024

I can tell you from experience the rental company will say NO!!!!! Take that how you will. If your insurance guy knows the details and you have something in writing, then just go for it. It's about a 7 or 8 hour drive I'm guessing. Be sensible and you should be fine.

I rented a tahoe in FL 12 years ago because it was cheaper than a F250 to haul a loaded tandem enclosed trailer back to WI. It pulled it fine......most of the trip at 3 - 4k rpm. Thinking I did the right thing to save the company money (younger and naive to big corporate junk)
.....manager did not think so. But it worked out fine in the end and that 5.3L was properly broken in by the time I dropped it off. LOL

DenaliCountry · Nov 7, 2024

B-train said:
I can tell you from experience the rental company will say NO!!!!! Take that how you will. If your insurance guy knows the details and you have something in writing, then just go for it. It's about a 7 or 8 hour drive I'm guessing. Be sensible and you should be fine.

I rented a tahoe in FL 12 years ago because it was cheaper than a F250 to haul a loaded tandem enclosed trailer back to WI. It pulled it fine......most of the trip at 3 - 4k rpm. Thinking I did the right thing to save the company money (younger and naive to big corporate junk)
.....manager did not think so. But it worked out fine in the end and that 5.3L was properly broken in by the time I dropped it off. LOL

I got it done on Tuesday. All went well. They ended up giving me a Jeep Wagoneer and it pulled just fine, roughly 7 hours with a stop for gas and dinner.

homesick · Nov 7, 2024

DenaliCountry said:
I got it done on Tuesday. All went well. They ended up giving me a Jeep Wagoneer and it pulled just fine, roughly 7 hours with a stop for gas and dinner.

Did you tell them you were gonna tow with it? Just curious.

joe

Tonyv__ · Nov 7, 2024

If im not mistaken, most rentals don’t even have hitches on them..

Didn’t realize you already did it. Well, glad it worked out

homesick · Nov 7, 2024

Tonyv__ said:
If im not mistaken, most rentals don’t even have hitches on them..

Didn’t realize you already did it. Well, glad it worked out

Good point. It was way too obvious for me.

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