Mom's old irs explorer ate rear struts and rear sealed wheel bearings just doing explorer crap. Never touched a trailer or hauled anything of note.
I wouldn't tow a half empty kleenex box with one.
That's kind of what I'm afraid of with my 08 Explorer...I'm sure the engine would be fine, but the independent suspension leaves a lot to be desired in longevity while towing. If I load the 2100lb trailer up with my tractor and all its implements/attachments I'm right below the max tow capacity of the Explorer...not sure how often I'd ever need to haul every single implement/attachment, but with just the trailer and tractor with loader, mower and box blade, or loader and tiller I'm at almost 6k.
I was thinking of an F150, but they honestly don't tow much more than my Explorer I don't think, at least not in a 4WD configuration. I don't need a crew cab, an extended cab long bed would work just fine for my needs, I have the Explorer if I need to haul people, when I need to tow I'm not hauling people LOL. Looking around at late 90's up to around the 2008 F150's they don't have much more than an 8k towing capacity it seems at least from looking around on the ole Googlator.
The Explorer seems to handle the trailer just fine, no issues maintaining control at all, and doesn't squat the back end of it down like I thought it would...if I tried this behind my Jeep Grand Cherokee I'd probably be hitting the bump stops LOL. I have the brake controller for the trailer and the trailer has brakes on both axles, one of the reasons I bought it was both axles have brakes, a lot of them I run across only have 1 braked axle....I'd rather have as much braking power as I can, I'm not trying to be in a race, its the stopping I'm far more concerned with....which brings up another point, I wonder if an F150 has more or less the same stopping power? Solid rear axle with an F-Series pickup would be better for sure, if I could find one that someone bought to actually use as a truck that had the max tow package would be great. Maybe an F250? I guess that would be more than plenty of truck, but at some point I'd like to get a dump trailer too so should I just wait and pickup and F250? I've seen a few tow dump trailers with an F150 but you can't put much in the trailer because they're pushing 5k empty, and an 8k towing capacity of an F150 don't leave much material capacity.
I honestly don't think I'd want to be doing this very often at all with the Explorer....I've already dealt with the wheel bearing issues last year they aren't cheap, and as large as they are, you'd think they'd hold up much better but they don't. The engine is fine, I question the transmission's capacity though pulling like that. From what I can tell is the 6 speed automatics aren't that great either.
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