Major faux pas and bouncy rear passengers xtrail

turbo900
turbo900 Forum Participant Posts: 1
edited September 2014 in Towcars & Towing #1

Hi guys,

I have a 2006 2.0dci xtrail auto that pulls my sprite van. I have a major issue, when we bought her I must have looked up wrong facts for towing or just presumed due to its size etc it would pull my van. After looking up the original issue which i will come
too, on line it seems my car can only pull 1350kg and my van I think it around 1430kg (sprite major 6). This is a horrendously low tow weight considering the manual is 2000kg.  So firstly even though we've pulled van for 00's of miles without issue it looks
like i may need to change it. Secondly we notice that the kids in the back seat when the road gets roughish bounce around a fair bit which is not noticable in the front. Could this be down to worn shocks or is this the norm for an xtrail. It has 86k miles.

Martyn