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As long as you're careful this will be no problem. My brother and I have towed cars all over the place with Ford Rangers which weigh it at about 4500lbs. Three years ago he hauled my old 4x4 Nissan from outside Detroit to Akron, total weight about 6500lbs. He has a hopped up 5.0 V8 in his truck so pulling wasn't the issue and he said it drove fine. I pulled my wife's Explorer from upper Michigan when I bought it on a Uhaul as well with a short bed stock F150, again no problem except I had to stop at a truck stop to buy an adjustable wrench because someone had over adjusted the surge brakes and they where dragging badly. My personal trailer has electric brakes but I've always said if I was going to do it over I'd make one axle surge and the other electric. Be sure to stop every so often and check the straps, also be sure to use the safety chain around the rear axle.
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