Purchasing Question
Looking to purchase a 5th wheel, this will be my first RV. I've got a F-250 and looking mostly at used trailers. Pointers on what to really look for in a used unit vs. new would be appreciated. The...
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donn0128 wrote:
Not enough truck!
Fords are heavy to begin with, and depending on year you could have a honest load carrying capacity as low as 1500 pounds. Dry pin weight is really a misleading number. You will NEVER tow a dry trailer. You may not ever see it, but lacking real world numbers take a worst case. Trailers GVWR is what you want to look at. 20% of that is your pin weight.
It may or may not be enough truck, depending on age. On the newer models, an F250 is the same thing as a SRW F350 except for an overload spring and an axle block (in some cases as I think these are optional on the F250). Even if those aren't present they can be added and you've got exactly the same truck aside from the payload sticker and the decal on the fender.
Again this depends on year. I think in some of the older models the 3/4 ton series was actually somewhat lighter built in terms of axles used and etc.
