working on it wrote:I have a 2009 HHR Panel, and a 2008 Cobalt as well. I'm building a 4x8 TTT initially aiming for 1000 lbs or less total weight / 100 lbs tongue weight (the max weights as stated for towing in the owners manuals). I probably will exceed tat weight. I named it the "HHRv". I never started a build thread, but have many posts and photos in my gallery of my extremely slow build (very limited hands-on time, sporadic funding, modding as I go). A year in, but aim to finish before 12-21-12. I hope.
Build finished, finally weighed, goal of 1000lbs vastly exceeded! Final weight (as loaded for travelling will be 1438lbs. So much for the HHR or Cobalt as tow vehicles. 1280 as weighed, but items not weighed at this time bring it up to 1438lbs. I would've exceeded the 1000lbs recommended weight, and still towed it at 1250lbs, but 1438lbs is a bit too much. We'll get a mid-size truck or SUV eventually to replace one of the vehicles we now have, but until then, the '99 GMC 1500 (red, wife's) or the '04 Chevy 2500HD (white, mine) can definitely pull it.
On the plus side, it had the smoothest 5 spd I have ever driven. 