Need Advice on Used 5er Purchase
My wife and I are looking to purchase our first rv. We have a 2000 Chevy ck2500 5.7L crewcab shortbox with towing package and 4:10 gears. It only has 70K miles and I am the original owner so I know i...
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It is the cargo carrying capacity of the truck that will matter. I think you should be ok but I am not sure about your cargo capacity. You must be able to CARRY not tow the weight of the passengers, gear, fuel, HITCH, and the hitch weight of the trailer within the trucks cargo capacity weight limit. That said you should have about 2000-2500lb of capacity which SHOULD handle the 1200-1600lbs of hitch weight and leave you 400 to 1000 lbs for passengers, etc. These are just ball park figures so you need to know the actual hitch weight of the rigs and the capacity of your truck, before you start laying down any money.
BTW if you are going by the dry weight of the rigs being around 8200 then you are light by about a ton. Ask for the scaled weight as they are now and then add in for any water, cargo, food, tools, and other "stuff" that everyone winds up carrying along on a trip.
BTW if you are going by the dry weight of the rigs being around 8200 then you are light by about a ton. Ask for the scaled weight as they are now and then add in for any water, cargo, food, tools, and other "stuff" that everyone winds up carrying along on a trip.
