will this car haul a boat?

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when i was yunger i worked at a toyota dealer. i got a new 1993 toyota tercel in for warinty work. the complante was thet half of the electrical did not work ( tail litghts,heater,radio ect).i had worked on the car for a cupple of days finding sevral problims all the time scratching my head on how all this stuff failed. i had to git tn the rear seat for something and the carpet was soked and the seat was wet. i didnt want to know what it was.i wint back and opined the trunk and ther was standing water.

i told the service writer and he called the custumer and he started laphing and sead "o yah. i forgot to tell you, i was backing my boat down the ramp and whene i tryed to stop it wouldent, and the boat pulled the car under the water up to the ft doors":eek::eek: so we asked him how big the boat was and he told us it was (a lsmall) 19 foot bayliner:eek:

1st thing i thaught was WTF was this guy thinking towing a 19foot boat behind an 8foot car, 2nd thing i thaught is he baught a tercel because of the new bayliner.
 

Home Cookin'

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Re: will this car haul a boat?

third stupid thing was he thought a flooded car was covered by the warranty!
 

Doernuth

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Re: will this car haul a boat?

So that isn't normal wear and tear? I thougt the only reason to own a car was to get the boat to and from water?
 

HappierWet

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Re: will this car haul a boat?

EDIT

Ya know someone's gonna take that advice seriously............:D:D:D;)
 
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DrWiffel

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Re: will this car haul a boat?

Warranty? Hahaha? I bet he didn?t laugh so much when he got the bill.

*no offence dude but that was ralely hrad to raed.
 

nuboat2me

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Re: will this car haul a boat?

Truthfully stated in another thread...

"And they walk among us..." :rolleyes:

Not the fact that the idiot towed with a Tercel... How in the %$%$Q did he get it stopped!!!! :eek:

NOT SAFE at all!!! :eek:

I tow my 07 Ford Edge behind my motorhome, WITH auxiliary 'brake buddy' installed!!! 14 ton truck and I still feel the Edge back there when braking...

SHEESH!!!
 

geeco1

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Re: will this car haul a boat?

Sometimes the tow capacities of vehicles may surprise you. For example, the 2004 Hyundai Elantra had a tow capacity of just over 3000 lbs w/trailer brakes. I used to own one of these, and I don't think that I would attempt 3000 lbs with that car... but, hey... who knows, perhaps it would have been fine??

http://www.edmunds.com/reviews/list/top10/102426/article.html
 

evinice66

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Re: will this car haul a boat?

just pulled a 201 whitecap cc with a 2003 jeep liberty 3.7 and got 11.6 mpg..... all 860 miles.. hahaha
 

aktrucker

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Re: will this car haul a boat?

Truthfully stated in another thread...

Not the fact that the idiot towed with a Tercel... How in the %$%$Q did he get it stopped!!!! :eek:

SHEESH!!!

I would bet the car stopped when the boat floated, taking the weight off..... I have seen some real stupid crap at the launch, and I've seen a car go UNDER, and seen a few boats sink cause they forgot the plug........that ones not too bad as long as you catch it while it's still ON the trailer. I watched a guy back the boat in with his buddy in the boat and as soon as there was water, the buddy fired it up and started backing off the trailer.....WITH NO PLUG, that was an expen$$ive day for them
 

Tim Frank

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Re: will this car haul a boat?

*no offence dude but that was ralely hrad to raed.

I'm sure there was some point to this post....but, "no offense Dude", it just seems like you are being pretentious and condescending. :rolleyes:
 

kend301

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Re: will this car haul a boat?

Eye Amnot tuchng this wone ,Do knot want to git in trobl with AH modreter.
 

JB

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Re: will this car haul a boat?

Good idea, Kend301.
 
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