I'm thinking of getting a small caravan and ditching the big tent. I use my Favorit estate a lot for these trips. The caravan I'm looking at is 747kgs, and has a braked axle. The Haynes says maximum braked trailer weight is 750kgs. Has anyone pulled a caravan with a Felicia 1.3 or Favorit? Am I expecting too much?

We used to pull a trailer tent with a 1.3 and it coped, but not a lot more.

Is that weight the unladen weight of the caravan, or it's maximum allowed weight?

Pretty sure it's unladen weight.

Just contacted the seller, it is actually the maximum weight rather than unladen.

I've never towed with the 1.3 Felly/Fav I've owned, but I'd be very cautious about doing so especially when factoring in gradients.

A couple of summers ago I took my 1.3 to Devon, fully loaded but no trailer, and it struggled on some of the hills

That must be a very small caravan!! I'm trying to think of one with a MAM of less than 750kg. If you want to send me a link I will check whether you're being told porkies.

As has been said it will cope, but you won't be going anywherequickly.

I'd be worried about the lack of brakes!

its going to be a very small caravan to be so light!

yes the car should do it fine it will be slow on the hills and make sure that the caravan brakes are serviced and fully working otherwise you will have a problem!

my Grandad used to tow his caravan down to BrandsHatch from here in shropshire behind his estelle 120 (but he avoided hills as much as possible).

Be aware that VOSA are getting very keen now on towing weights and the fav will just look too small to have a caravan behind it so get the van on a weighbridge if you do buy it.

Cheers folks, the item is 160791919160 on eBay, I can't seem to copy in the link on my phone. Thanks for the advice, I'm going to look at it later, maybe a trailer tent would be a better plan however.

I've never towed with the 1.3 Felly/Fav I've owned, but I'd be very cautious about doing so especially when factoring in gradients.

You could perhaps just tour Holland, or Norfolk

You could perhaps just tour Holland, or Norfolk

You could include the Romney Marsh on that. Biggest hills tend to ant ones!

Cheers folks, the item is 160791919160 on eBay, I can't seem to copy in the link on my phone. Thanks for the advice, I'm going to look at it later, maybe a trailer tent would be a better plan however.

I suspect that the weight you state is the unladed weight of the van, not the max weight, so I wouldn't try it.

You could certainly tow this:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/freedom-caravan-light-weight-650kg-can-pulled-mini-/261017821970?pt=UK_Campers_Caravans_Motorhomes&hash=item3cc5dfe312

and they have a good reputation of being hard wearing.

Or

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ELDDIS-WISP-300-ULTRA-LIGHTWEIGHT-TOURING-CARAVAN-2-BERTH-/400295710198?pt=UK_Campers_Caravans_Motorhomes&hash=item5d337bcdf6

Check the weight of some trailer tents, they can be surprisingly heavy!