You forgot the other option: The owner doesn’t know / doesn’t care about the safety limit and is rolling the dice.
This is the most likely situation, that car has a towing capacity of 2000kg or about 4500lbs
Travel trailer of that size is probably about 5000-6000lbs.
So this is what you’d call dangerous, and good luck if there’s a hill.
I gotta doubt that that’s feasible:
2017 R-Pod RP-176 is a very small travel trailer weighing dry in at 3800lbs/1720kgs, it’s not the trailer in the photo but… It looks about the same size, single axle, short as shit, tear drop shape. And that’s the dry weight, once you add in gear That’s a lot more weight. Typically most people expect to add in about another 1500 lbs/680kg from the dry weight. So that’s a total of about 2400kgs, which is past what that car should tow.
In fact I’m not really seeing any trailers that aren’t pop-ups that would qualify at the weight you’re saying, even without gear.
That’s not to say it doesn’t exist, hell maybe my Google searches aren’t showing me shit from across the pond that would work, but metal is heavy.
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