07-22-2014, 11:51 PM
Nice bone.... the funny(well not really funny for me) thing is... we may be buying a truck to pull it as well... so your joke isn't really that far off.
I have a Mitsubishi Lancer for work (I drive about 1200 miles a month so having a car with good gas mileage is nice... and it's more fun to drive than a truck) and my wife has a Saturn Outlook. Well the Outlook has plenty of towing capacity(4500 lbs)... IF PROPERLY EQUIPPED. I assumed properly equipped meant installing the hitch so we did. After doing some more research, the "properly equipped" also involves a transmission cooler and a tow/haul button which alters the way the transmission shifts, so we were going to have that done. Went down to our local mechanic who just rebuilt the transmission in the wife's car(Bye bye 3 grand) cause evidently the Outlook's transmission is SHIT(and the car only has 56k miles on it) and asked him about installing the trans cooler... and he basically said no. He said the transmissions on the outlooks are shit and even though he just rebuilt it and made it better than it was, that trying to tow a boat with it is just asking for trouble. I'm not a mechanic so I am at the will of the mechanic I talk to, and figure if a mechanic is turning down a job, then he's probably telling the truth, so I lean towards heeding his advice.
So we're at the point of now what to do. Should we just use the Outlook to pull it(99% of the time we'll be on the lake by our house which is maybe 1 mile from where the boat will be stored), do we install the trans cooler and hope for the best, or do we buy a truck to pull the boat. Like I said, her Outlook only has 56k miles on it and it just had it's transmission rebuilt... I'm not sure I want to push my luck with it. My wife loves it otherwise I'd just cut my losses, trade the damn thing in for something that can pull a boat, but she won't do that, she likes the damn car too much.
So... we're leaning towards buying a truck JUST to pull the boat.
I have a Mitsubishi Lancer for work (I drive about 1200 miles a month so having a car with good gas mileage is nice... and it's more fun to drive than a truck) and my wife has a Saturn Outlook. Well the Outlook has plenty of towing capacity(4500 lbs)... IF PROPERLY EQUIPPED. I assumed properly equipped meant installing the hitch so we did. After doing some more research, the "properly equipped" also involves a transmission cooler and a tow/haul button which alters the way the transmission shifts, so we were going to have that done. Went down to our local mechanic who just rebuilt the transmission in the wife's car(Bye bye 3 grand) cause evidently the Outlook's transmission is SHIT(and the car only has 56k miles on it) and asked him about installing the trans cooler... and he basically said no. He said the transmissions on the outlooks are shit and even though he just rebuilt it and made it better than it was, that trying to tow a boat with it is just asking for trouble. I'm not a mechanic so I am at the will of the mechanic I talk to, and figure if a mechanic is turning down a job, then he's probably telling the truth, so I lean towards heeding his advice.
So we're at the point of now what to do. Should we just use the Outlook to pull it(99% of the time we'll be on the lake by our house which is maybe 1 mile from where the boat will be stored), do we install the trans cooler and hope for the best, or do we buy a truck to pull the boat. Like I said, her Outlook only has 56k miles on it and it just had it's transmission rebuilt... I'm not sure I want to push my luck with it. My wife loves it otherwise I'd just cut my losses, trade the damn thing in for something that can pull a boat, but she won't do that, she likes the damn car too much.
So... we're leaning towards buying a truck JUST to pull the boat.
I don't own kid gloves.
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