Hello everyone!
I'm new to the forums and we just placed our order for our new Santa Cruz last week we went with the fully loaded Sage Grey and with green on the inside to match! hopefully us Canadian will have ours in our hands soon we are so pumped as I have been watching this truck since 2015!
Now I have some question about towing with the DCT little bit of back story I used to have a 2019 GMC terrain with the 2.0T witch gave ups 3500 towing rating now with the GMC we had a tow haul mode so it made things easier as I didn't have to lock the gears or anything like that to keep the tranny out of the overdrive gears as it was a 8 speed sadly we where in a car crash and we lost our terrain so moving forward me and the wife wanted something a bit bigger and could tow more and since I was following the Santa Cruz close told the wife that it can tow 5000 and we should go test drive it after that it was history haha
Now what I want to know is we have a little 1300 pound tent trailer nothing crazy shouldn't give the Cruz any issues at all and I have looked around and cant really find much about towing with a DCT so here's my questions
1. Do DCT have overdrive gears and if so should you have it in sport mode to lock the tranny out of 7 & 8?
2. Creeping in R will this be a issue for the DCT? as you know backing up a trailer can be tricky at time and something you need to go slow is there a way to lock the DCT in R so you don't overheat the gear or dose the DCT lock itself in R when you put the truck in R? or how dose this work (New to the DCT world)
3. Backing up on a bit of a hill also will this be hard on the DCT as when I park my Trailer I park it on a driveway the incline is not very big at all
4. Going down and up hills is it smart to downshift when going up hills or will the DCT do this on its own or should I be doing this myself?
5. When towing the trailer I seen on the Santa Cruz manual it says to put the truck in Drive and go is this the right way of doing it Since there's no tow haul mode?
6.We will only be towing in the summer time so about for 4 to 5 months of the year will this put a lot of stress on the DCT over time or will we be ok?
7. We do plan on upgrading to a bigger trailer what do you guys think the max save loaded weight would be for a small travel trailer I would think 3000 dry and 3500 loaded would be kind of the max weight I would want to go after that i feel like your kind of pushing it there
Thank you everyone for taking the time to read over this and all the feedback you might have I really want this truck to do us good and last a long time for us and want to get as much info as I can as I cant really find much about towing with a DCT
I'm new to the forums and we just placed our order for our new Santa Cruz last week we went with the fully loaded Sage Grey and with green on the inside to match! hopefully us Canadian will have ours in our hands soon we are so pumped as I have been watching this truck since 2015!
Now I have some question about towing with the DCT little bit of back story I used to have a 2019 GMC terrain with the 2.0T witch gave ups 3500 towing rating now with the GMC we had a tow haul mode so it made things easier as I didn't have to lock the gears or anything like that to keep the tranny out of the overdrive gears as it was a 8 speed sadly we where in a car crash and we lost our terrain so moving forward me and the wife wanted something a bit bigger and could tow more and since I was following the Santa Cruz close told the wife that it can tow 5000 and we should go test drive it after that it was history haha
Now what I want to know is we have a little 1300 pound tent trailer nothing crazy shouldn't give the Cruz any issues at all and I have looked around and cant really find much about towing with a DCT so here's my questions
1. Do DCT have overdrive gears and if so should you have it in sport mode to lock the tranny out of 7 & 8?
2. Creeping in R will this be a issue for the DCT? as you know backing up a trailer can be tricky at time and something you need to go slow is there a way to lock the DCT in R so you don't overheat the gear or dose the DCT lock itself in R when you put the truck in R? or how dose this work (New to the DCT world)
3. Backing up on a bit of a hill also will this be hard on the DCT as when I park my Trailer I park it on a driveway the incline is not very big at all
4. Going down and up hills is it smart to downshift when going up hills or will the DCT do this on its own or should I be doing this myself?
5. When towing the trailer I seen on the Santa Cruz manual it says to put the truck in Drive and go is this the right way of doing it Since there's no tow haul mode?
6.We will only be towing in the summer time so about for 4 to 5 months of the year will this put a lot of stress on the DCT over time or will we be ok?
7. We do plan on upgrading to a bigger trailer what do you guys think the max save loaded weight would be for a small travel trailer I would think 3000 dry and 3500 loaded would be kind of the max weight I would want to go after that i feel like your kind of pushing it there
Thank you everyone for taking the time to read over this and all the feedback you might have I really want this truck to do us good and last a long time for us and want to get as much info as I can as I cant really find much about towing with a DCT