u/Scheerhorn462

I'm reading up on whether a 2026 Toyota Rav4 Plugin Hybrid can tow my 2019 Flagstaff 176MAC popup camper. It's a very small camper (8' box), only about 1600 lbs dry weight, and I hear about lots of people towing them with small cars. But I'm having trouble making the math work.

As I understand it, towing capacity is the car's GCVW, minus it's curb weight, minus passengers and payload weight. The 2026 Rav4 has a GCVW of 5530, and a curb weight of 4500. This seems to indicate that it can only tow around 1,000 lbs even with no passengers/payload in the car - assuming three passengers and some luggage that would be down to around 500 lbs total towing capacity. But Toyota claims a towing capacity of 3500 lbs, which seems impossible given the GCVW and curb weight and even if you disregard the passengers and payload.

What am I overlooking or doing wrong here? Based on those numbers, the Toyota really can't tow anything, since you're gonna be hard pressed to find anything you can tow under 500 lbs.

I’ve got a standard BKA prosthetic that has a simple post between the foot and the socket. I don’t mind how it looks when wearing shorts, but when wearing pants I don’t like how the pant leg collapses since there’s no lower leg to fill it out. Is there anything I could use to fill that in? I’m picturing like a foam piece that slips over the post with a Velcro strap.

I do have a 3D printed fairing/cover, but it fits over the bottom of the socket in such a way that it makes it not fit inside pant legs very well. I’d need something that just fits over the post, not increasing the size of the socket.