I'm not experienced, though, so I wouldn't know it if it was bad at towing. Feels safe and it seems to have enough power for me when I towed about 1500 lbs.

 

Yup, I've pulled a pop trailer and my boat numerous times. It does just fine within its 3500# rating.
Gas mileage sucks, but that's true when it's not towing!

 

I've flat towed a broke YJ on 35s up a pretty good grade. A good 3,000lbs on a 2dr?

I wasn't pushing on it, but it rolled down the road just fine at 50mph in 4th. Could have gone faster without issue, but the tree savers and YJ 12ft behind the Jeep wasn't very comforting lol

 

I forgot to mention that Uhaul wouldn't rent me a trailor because I had the soft-top. I figured that might be the case because I'd read about this on the board, but their reasoning was funny. They said the hardtop makes it more top heavy and thus more stable. I said, "No... being more top heavy makes you less stable. And since when would a fiberglass top make a truck top heavy?" Made no sense.

 

They work at uhaul for a reason lol

 

But it's Uhaul's rule, not the person who happens to be working there. The person's just doing h/h job.

 

I've used my JKU to move a few trailers around my rowing club. One is 32', 2700lb (aluminum) and the other two are about the same length, but 5-6000lbs (steel)

- usually throwing it in 2LOW as the grass in the compound tends to get a bit slick and muddy (to the point that the 3/4 ton GMC is near useless with just 2wd)

Plenty of torque, and the short wheelbase definitely makes moving the trailers around a lot easier.

I don't know about taking even the lightest one on the highway... with a 1/2 load I figure it works out to about 3000-3500lbs, but due to its size it's a veritable brick-wall at high speeds.

 

I said "they work at uhaul for a reason" in reference to the "makes it more stable" theory.

 

The Hard top rule at UHaul is probably a safety issue in that, if the trailer breaks free, the hard top is more apt to block flying debris.

The hard top does add weight to the vehicle too which is good for towing, though top heavy may not be as helpful, weight on the towing vehicle helps the vehicle's ability to stabilize the trailer if it starts to wobble etc.. with electronics to stabilize the load like the towing package equipped JKs have this might not be such an issue.

 

The hard top adds about 93lbs for the back and what 15lbs for the front panels? Just tell them I'll have a really thin person sit in my Jeep and Im good to go.