I am moving from the San Francisco Bay Area to Massachusetts in December. The cost of truck rental + car tow or shipment is prohibitive so I am hoping to tow a 4 X 6 or 5 x 8 cargo trailer with my 2012 Mazda 2 instead (manual transmission). I’m getting conflicting reports on whether the Mazda 2 can …

It is possible but not a wise thing to do.

I’ve done it, (1995 Nissan Sentra) but I wouldn’t recommend it. 5’X8’ trailers are HEAVY loaded! U-Haul will rent you a trailer if your vehicle can at least tow the EMPTY trailer, and then say, “how you load it is your prerogative.” Well, if 90% of your tow rating is used up by the thing, empty, you…

No way can this vehicle tow anything larger then a motorcycle. That’s a disaster waiting to happen.

[image] Karalee31: The dealer says the car has no towing capacity, but U-Haul and other sites say that it is indeed possible. I would believe the people who make the car before the people who profit off the sales of hitches and trailer rentals. Just my 2 cents worth.

Yeah you have to go by what the manual says not what U haul says. I’ve gotta think 500 pounds would be about max anyway so no way you can pull a 5X8 heavy U haul. A van with a car carrier is in your future or simply box everything up into one of those container haulers and drive there.

Rent a U-haul truck and tow the Mazda. :slight_smile:

Thanks everyone! I knew towing was a bad idea but was hoping something different would be the case. Renting a truck and towing the car is literally thousands of dollars more so I wanted a more cost-effective option. Will explore other options! Anyone want to buy a Mazda 2 :smile:

Concur w/above, while there’s a good chance you’d make it, the wear and tear on your poor M2 will cost you more to repair than what you’d pay by accomplishing the same objective another way. Options to cost out are Drive your M2 to Boston, fly back to SF, then drive a rental truck to Boston …

If you have books you want to move, you can often get a good rate sending them by freight. I think there may be a book rate. As someone else suggested, some.moving companies will accept partial loads. When they have a.truckload going to the same area, they depart. The disadvantage is that you ha…

Towing capacity for a small hatchback

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texases October 28, 2016, 9:50pm 2

Don’t do it, your Mazda 2 is tiny, not suited to tow much of anything across country. Its brakes couldn’t handle any significant trailer. I’d sell/donate/trash as much as possible, ship the rest. You might be surprised at what you don’t really need.

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Towing capacity for a small hatchback

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