If you have too little tongue weight, the trailer can try to lift
up the back of the car in bouncing situations. Since you have a
vehicle which is light in the rear anyway, you should not try to
have the minimum tongue weight. Having said that, you shouldn't
go for excessive tongue weight though. Again, because you have a
front wheel drive vehicle, tongue weight (which uses the rear
wheels of any vehicle as the fulcrum) will tend to lift your
driving and steering front wheels off the ground. DANGEROUS. If
you are rated for 3,500 tow, and you had an all up weight of
2,200#, I'd go for 220 to 250# tongue weight- no more, no less.
(Make you measurement under the hitch itself, NOT the swing-away
wheel, assuming you have one of those.)
Bill Longyard
"No guru, no method, no teacher......."