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.
AKinLA. You will hear this quite often on this forum. There are those who really push the limits of their truck. Then are those who believe you should be driving a Kenworth to pull a pop-up. Its all over the spectrum here.
As some have stated, what year is your truck? I would be totally comfortable for a pin weight under 2500 lbs.. Under 2000 lbs. is even better. In my opinion, you are more than fine.
