Towing With The Accent Hatchback? Options

[milemaker13]

Does anyone else have a tow hitch on their Accent? I do. I use my Accent for everything. Mostly I just tow a small trailer to Menards for drywall and such. But I also tow my small fishing boat (14' smokercraft Big Fisherman) to the lake. I pull down the freeway at 60mph no sweat. A little extra room out front and its fine. The boat ramps can get pretty steep, so I use the hand brake to allow my to hit the gas/clutch with outsliding back into the drink.

Any opinions about using synthetic oil in the manual trans? Will this help my tiny trans stand up better to towing? I don't mind the expense since it will only be changed a couple times in the cars lifetime.

[bloodninja]

Does anyone else have a tow hitch on their Accent? I do. I use my Accent for everything. Mostly I just tow a small trailer to Menards for drywall and such. But I also tow my small fishing boat (14' smokercraft Big Fisherman) to the lake. I pull down the freeway at 60mph no sweat. A little extra room out front and its fine. The boat ramps can get pretty steep, so I use the hand brake to allow my to hit the gas/clutch with outsliding back into the drink.

Any opinions about using synthetic oil in the manual trans? Will this help my tiny trans stand up better to towing? I don't mind the expense since it will only be changed a couple times in the cars lifetime.

I would highly recommend you never tell your dealership or Hyundai Corp about your towing habits, as the Accent is not rated for towing anything other than a bike rack. Sure, you could probably tow a semi-trailer behind your Accent, but that doesn't mean you should.

On a semi-related note, I changed the automatic tranny fluid in my car at 25,000 miles to Dextron III and it made a WORLD of a difference. The car now flies everywhere very smoothly. When I drained the tranny fluid it was a terrible thick black sludge, not the nice clearish pink of the Dextron III I put it. I suspect this has a lot to do with the fact that it's the original fluid from the manufacturer, and therefore was full of all the metal shavings and whatnot of the transmission first being worn-in.
Considering how cheap tranny fluid is ($9), I'll probably change it every 25,000.

This post has been edited by bloodninja: Sep 28 2009, 11:28 AM

[Naky]

Does anyone else have a tow hitch on their Accent? I do. I use my Accent for everything. Mostly I just tow a small trailer to Menards for drywall and such. But I also tow my small fishing boat (14' smokercraft Big Fisherman) to the lake. I pull down the freeway at 60mph no sweat. A little extra room out front and its fine. The boat ramps can get pretty steep, so I use the hand brake to allow my to hit the gas/clutch with outsliding back into the drink.

Any opinions about using synthetic oil in the manual trans? Will this help my tiny trans stand up better to towing? I don't mind the expense since it will only be changed a couple times in the cars lifetime.

There's a guy on here who did it already too. Basically, we all came to the conclusion that it wasn't recommended, but if the route you take is more or less flat with no hilly areas, you should be fine to pull some small trailers or boats. I would expect that your transmission's going to crap itself earlier than other people's would, but if you're okay with that then by all means keep on pullin'.

[milemaker13]

Tell who what? No way man, that reciever is just for my bike rack... and I put some lights on it too... So what!

I know that everyone has an opinion, and facts are facts. But many times I deal with the fuzzy areas of life. I need the small car (and I love it!) and I also NEED the boat, so down the road we go!

But the question is about the trans oil...

Do we think that full synthetic will help, if only a little?

[accent sport]

If I were you I would be looking more towards an oil cooler unit for the tranny that would help way more in the long run , it's the high temps that end up killing most trannys when towing.