I purchased my Discovery TD6 HSE last fall with the intent to purchase a boat eventually. I'm currently looking at Cobalt models in the 24/25 ft length but have found a really nice 26 footer which is about 250 miles away. However, it will tip the scale at around 7500lbs with trailer, gas and gear. I have read through many post on how well these beast handle when pulling trailers, boats, or really anything and the pictures posted are incredible.

I plan on installing the electric brake module once I'm ready. With that size boat and trailer I will not be able to store it my garage so I'm looking into storage units within 10 miles or less from my local lake. I'm sure for short distances it will do great and for the occasional trips to the house for deep cleaning. I just don't want to be maxing out my Discovery to the effect of shortening it's life because it is such an awesome machine and isn't cheap!

Are there any Cobalt owners out there and if so what are you pulling and what do you think?

 

You will be fine. What is the tongue weight?

 

 

@Seattle TD6 The boat owner didn't know the tongue weight, but I know the Cobalt trailers have an adjustable front stantion so you can make subtle adjustments to the tongue weight. The boat has already been sold, so I'm back to the beginning.

@Chevyguy2021 That is an incredible combination!! I really think it would be fun to have a wake surf boat!

 

I have a 25ft twin outboard in Texas. Fully loaded, if I add coolers and everything without people, I’m at around 7600lbs. Don’t know about the weight. Trailer is old and the hydraulic brakes were rusted through so I just welded everything up. If I put it in low gear and take my foot off the brake it will crawl up the steep ramp without touching the pedal.

I can tell you with this rig I’ve pulled over 10,000lbs no problem. Handles everything just fine. Wasn’t on the highway with the 10k load just going from the boat ramp to the house about a mile away. Thought she felt a little heavy but wasn’t sure. Went to pull boat plugs and found my bilge pumps had quit working when it was out in a storm tied up. Took 20minutes to drain all the water out. Was actually almost more impressed with the boat lol.

I’m also a little more “country” with how I use mine. Go hunting, buried it in a swamp once, go to Brake Check instead of LR to get pads done, use regular Rotella systhetic diesel oil and change every 10k miles. The LR oil was the worst. The F150 diesel oil was very good but sooner or later all these engines agree the Rotella is where it’s add and end up adding it to their spec list.

I bought mine 3.5yrs ago as a CPO that had 6800miles on it and is still under warranty. Haven’t had any issues lately. Had one collapsed air intake hose a year ago, a **** load of software issues initially, and a few months ago she blew an idler pulley off and shredded the belt which was thankfully covered. Outside of that no real issues.

My complains are that if there’s an issue it won’t tell you what it is. It will just say it has one. Meanwhile if you ever let the thing run low on windshield washer fluid it WILL NOT stop telling you. To me I say I’d figure it out when I go to hit the button and it doesn’t have any. My other real complaint is, to me absolute bulls”t, that I once buried mine at a swampy area heading to a fishing spot down a shoreline. The sandy edge got real soft real fast so was powering through it all when all the sudden it decides my tranny is getting hot and it desires to basically force you to high idle. So then it sank and got stuck. I can’t for the life of me understand how they expect to say this is the do-all version of an off-roader yet it has a computer make the decisions for you. Wish it’d have just thrown me a warning light and called it a day but this thing WILL take over for you. As someone that’s been through waste deep flood water and everything else in it; that thought is in the back of my mind. Luckily that’s been the only incident.

Outside of that this has been the only vehicle I’ve owned for longer than a couple years in a while and I’ve absolutely loved it. I’ve never loved any other vehicle. I think the TD6 is the way to go and I won’t be buying another LandRover for a while because of them dropping it. I haven’t been a fan of the direction landrover has been heading. They’re really cutting the ***** off everything. I have an order for an Ineos Grenadier and I’ll happily hold onto my Disco until the Grenadier arrives next year.