A good idea to work out your total towed weight is to pop down the local tip and put your car and trailer with everything in it across the weigh bridge, then drop everything back at home unloaded then reweigh the car by itself to work out exactly the weight of what you are towing.
Swinksy said advice is spot on, u have to know exactly what everything weighs once all loaded up.
Electric brakes on any trailer is a must in my opinion and I purchased a 2,000 kg tow bar set up.
You can go cheaper at a 1600kg set up for a Ford but the larger capacity tow set up was only an extra $150. Best to be safe and get a higher capacity tow bar set up than be sorry if u go over which would be unsafe and illegal.
The camper trailer set up I have picked takes 15 to 30 minutes to fully set up if u were taking your time by yourself.
There are some amazing designs out there these days. I think Australia leads the way with trailer campers because of our unique country. Some people like to tow massively heavy caravans but that's not for me.
The new light weight set ups are the answer these days to keep fuel costs down and the lighter the product, the easier it is to tow although any Ford 6 or 8 easily toes 2 tonnes and you can barely feel it on the back because the good old Fords n Holdens have massive torque designed just for towing.
