5th wheel lengths (model# vs reality)

Atom Ant wrote:

NC Hauler wrote:

neal10a wrote:
Buyer be ware--- that is why the have scales and tape measures.

Actually, I don't see how weight or length would catch anyone off guard, (ie, Buyer Beware),....most that purchase have physically seen their unit before they buy it...they "see" how long it is, and their are placards showing weights.....

I think it continuously catches people off guard. I hear it over and over where people think the rig they have towed for 2 years is 36 ft long because that is what the model number is and they are shocked to find out it is closer to 40 ft, or to find out it doesn't weigh anything close to the GVWR on the sticker (some higher, some lower).

I agree with Neal10a - and to the OP - don't try to equate model number to mean anything other than style or floorplan, or GVWR or specs to anything on the side of reality. The only numbers you should be using as factual are the number on the tape measure, or the scale.

Agree 100% with you, but what I'm saying is that the numbers are available in the brochures, and affixed to the unit itself and they are almost alway's correct, including empty weights and GVW, (difference being cargo carrying capacity)....

Most won't be carrying a tape measure with them and most won't weigh their unit...and a lot of that can be attested to by having read this forum for years and years.

Every unit I've ever purchased, I knew the inside and outside length (it's there for the reading), and weights are published...now whether someone takes their unit to a cat scale to see what it actually weighs, that's a different topic, due to the fact that OP was just trying to make sense out of numbers given to unit purchased and what they meant....As we've seen, some of these numbers don't make any sense, but inside and outside dimensions are usually given by manufacturer..That is what I go by....Wasn't arguing about what the numbers represented...Was trying to say, "IF" one doesn't have the 50' tape measure, they can get manufacturers inside and outside lengths fairly easily...I knew actual lengths of my unit as soon as I read through the brochure and lengths were 'dead on", inside and out...

don't get me wrong, I've measured the units I've purchased, and 99% of the time found that dimensions published by manufacturer match my measurements..outside may vary an inch or so..

Agree with you that numbers shouldn't be used to equate length, but others posted numbers, just comparing....

BUT, information is found fairly easily with a little research and that was all I was trying to help with....figure the manufacturer ought to know actual length of the unit they built, it's been the case with everyone I ever purchased, but guess there could be the "exception to the rule"?