Harry
>Judy,
>
>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......."