Jeep Grand Wagoneer Towing Capacity: 9,800 to 10,000 lb

Jeep publishes "best-in-class towing of 9,800 lbs." for the 2025 Grand Wagoneer, "best-in-class towing capability of up to 9,650 pounds" for the longer 2025 Grand Wagoneer L, and "best-in-class available towing capability of up to 10,000 lbs. in its Standard Output (SO) configuration" for the 2026 Grand Wagoneer. All three come from Stellantis's own press material for those model years. Every one of them is an available maximum for a specific build, which means the trailer tow content has to be fitted and the configuration has to match. Your own vehicle's ratings are on its door jamb labels and in its owner's manual, and those are the only ones that govern what you hitch up.

Jeep Grand Wagoneer Towing Capacity: The Published Figures

What is not published here, because it could not be sourced to a Stellantis document: payload, GVWR, GCWR, tongue weight rating, or any per-trim or per-drivetrain breakdown for any Grand Wagoneer. Those figures exist in Jeep's own specification material and on the labels of each vehicle, and this site does not reconstruct them from dealer pages or spec databases.

Two Things in That Table Most Pages Get Backward

The bigger vehicle is rated to tow less. The 2025 Grand Wagoneer L is the long-wheelbase version, and Jeep publishes it at 9,650 lb against the standard wheelbase's 9,800 lb. That is not a misprint or a downgrade in engineering. A longer body is a heavier body, and vehicle weight is subtracted from the gross combined weight rating before any trailer is attached. The extra length buys cargo volume behind the third row and usually improves stability behind a long trailer. It does not buy capacity. If that relationship is unfamiliar, GVWR vs GCWR vs payload is the page that untangles which rating governs what.

The higher-output engine is not the higher-towing engine. For 2026, Jeep attaches the 10,000 lb figure specifically to the Standard Output version of the Hurricane Twin Turbo, not to the High Output version fitted to the sportier and more heavily equipped trims. The horsepower headline and the towing headline belong to two different vehicles. This is the same trap that shows up on heavy-duty pickups, where the diesel that raises the tow rating lowers the payload, and it is why a spec sheet has to be read as a table of configurations rather than as a ranking.

Why Payload Decides Your Trailer, Not the 10,000 lb Figure

A Grand Wagoneer is a heavy, well-equipped, three-row vehicle. Every option fitted to it was subtracted from its payload before delivery, and payload is the account that tongue weight is drawn from first.

Illustrative arithmetic, describing no specific vehicle and no specific trailer. Take a conventional travel trailer loaded to 7,500 lb, which is well inside every figure in the table above.

• Tongue weight, 7,500 lb at 13 percent: 975 lb
• Weight-distributing hitch hardware: 100 lb
• Two adults and three children: 600 lb
• Cargo behind the third row, plus roof box and bikes: 300 lb

Total payload consumed: 1,975 lb, before anyone puts a cooler in the back. That figure has to fit under the payload number on the placard in your driver's door jamb, and the rear-axle share of it has to fit under your rear GAWR, which is a separate limit that can bind before payload does. The tow rating never entered that calculation. The reason it never does is set out in payload vs towing capacity, and the 10 to 15 percent conventional tongue weight band used above is explained in tongue weight explained.

What Has to Be Fitted for the Rating to Apply

Jeep states its figures as available towing capability. That word carries the same load as "when properly equipped" does elsewhere: it means the vehicle needs the trailer tow content from the factory, which on this class of vehicle typically includes a rated hitch receiver, upgraded cooling, wiring and an integrated trailer brake controller. Fitting a receiver to a vehicle that left the factory without the tow package does not give it the tow package's rating. What that phrase is quietly doing in every published rating is the subject of what "properly equipped" means for towing.

Three more variables change the answer, and none of them is visible from the outside:

• Trim and equipment. Heavier trims mean less payload, and often a lower tow rating.
• Air suspension setting and load leveling. These change ride height and how the load is carried. They do not change any rating.
• Model year. Ratings are re-established each year. A 2023 Grand Wagoneer figure is not a 2026 Grand Wagoneer figure, and this page names the year beside every number for that reason.

One nameplate note worth stating plainly, because it causes real confusion at the dealership: Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer are different vehicles with different ratings. A figure you read for one does not transfer to the other. Check which name is on the tailgate of the vehicle you are being quoted on.

Reading Your Own Grand Wagoneer, in Order

1. The Tire and Loading Information placard in the driver's door jamb: your payload, in the sentence beginning "the combined weight of occupants and cargo should never exceed."
2. The certification label in the same area: GVWR and front and rear GAWR.
3. Your owner's manual and Jeep's towing information for your model year: the rating that matches your trim, engine, drivetrain and installed tow equipment, plus Jeep's own instructions on hitch type and trailer brakes.
4. A public scale, loaded the way you actually travel, with the trailer attached. Everything above is a rating. A scale is the only measurement.

If a dealer page, a spec database and the label on your door jamb disagree, the label and the manual win. The method behind every figure in this cluster is set out in towing capacity by vehicle.

FAQ

What is the towing capacity of a Jeep Grand Wagoneer?
Jeep publishes 9,800 lb for the 2025 Grand Wagoneer, up to 9,650 lb for the 2025 Grand Wagoneer L, and up to 10,000 lb for the 2026 Grand Wagoneer in its Standard Output configuration. All three are available maximums stated in Stellantis's own press material for those model years, and all three require the correct configuration and factory tow equipment.

Why does the longer Grand Wagoneer L tow less than the standard one?
Because the longer body weighs more, and vehicle weight is subtracted from the combined weight the powertrain and brakes are rated to handle. The L trades a small amount of towing capacity for cargo volume. It is a normal consequence of how gross combined weight rating works, not a defect.

Does the High Output engine tow more?
Not according to Jeep's own 2026 material, which attaches the 10,000 lb figure to the Standard Output version of the Hurricane Twin Turbo. Horsepower and tow rating are set by different constraints, so the most powerful version of a vehicle is not automatically the one rated to pull the most.

Can a Grand Wagoneer tow a fifth wheel?
Fifth-wheel and gooseneck trailers hitch over a pickup bed, so they are not compatible with an SUV. A Grand Wagoneer tows conventional bumper-pull trailers on a rated receiver hitch. If your trailer is a fifth wheel, the vehicle class is the answer, not the rating.

Do I need the trailer tow package?
If you intend to tow anywhere near the published figures, yes. Jeep publishes these as available capability, meaning the factory tow content has to be present. That content typically includes cooling, wiring, a rated receiver and an integrated brake controller, and it cannot be reproduced afterward by bolting on a hitch.

The door jamb labels and the owner's manual for your exact VIN and trim are the authority. Towing capacity, payload, GVWR, GCWR and GAWR vary by engine, trim, wheelbase, drivetrain and installed equipment within a single model year, so a figure that is correct for one Grand Wagoneer can be badly wrong for another. The three figures published above are quoted from Stellantis's own press material for the named model years and retrieved 2026-08-24. No payload, GVWR, GCWR or tongue weight rating is published here, because none could be traced to a manufacturer document, and this site does not reconstruct capacity figures from dealer or aggregator pages.