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Originally Posted by lars-ss
I don't plan on hauling a yacht with it.....  |
I think part of the reason Toyota recommends no hitches even for bicycles is standard "CYA" due to the potential idiot factor. I imagine there are more that a few people that don't see much difference between hauling a yacht and loading a few bicycles once a hitch is installed.
Also, the car already has a lot of extra weight (battery) aft of the passenger area and the trunk load limit is not very high. Throwing a 100lbs into a rear carrier (which acts as a lever) will exceed this load limit. Now people exceed load limit all the time on all sorts of vehicles without having issues, but it does change the vehicles handling and maybe limit the effectiveness of VDIM and related systems. Just Toyota's way of saying if you do this stuff and can't handle it, we told you so...