Originally Posted by Alainis300

You'll be just fine towing a small trailer, I've been towing small items with my GS for a very long time.

Originally Posted by bruceb58

You don't take things out of the trunk and throw it in the trailer and think it can increase your towing capacity!

The trailer tongue weight needs to be between 10% and 15% of the towed weight. If the trailer is 2500#, the tongue weight needs to be 250# minimum.

BTW, I wouldn't have U-Haul put a trailer hitch on my car if it was the last place on earth.

Originally Posted by Emily1928

I did some research on towing an ultra light trailer for my 1999 400GS... the research noted a 250 pound tongue weight max and a 2500 pound max towing. If you take out the spare tire from the trunk and take out everything out of the trunk and into the trailer at the trailer wheel line or back from that, you can increase your tongue weight. I have a 2008 350GS... and towing is no recommended.... but the heck with that.... I would guess it would be about the same. However, there is nothing like that 8 CYLINDER 400GS. In anycase, make sure you downshift up a hill using the manual settings to get high torque... like 2500 rpm min, when the normal untowing load would but you at 2000 rpm doing 60 mph. You don't want to ruin the transmission.
ALSO.... the best place to have a towing set up installed is at Uhaul.