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upontheridge
Feb 21, 2014Explorer
I think the truck manufacturers and the RV folks both do a big disservice to the consumer with all the 1/2 towable ads and pushing Towing capacity. I bought my F150 thinking I could tow 11,000+ pounds and I guess I could if I was pulling a tow sled tied to a cable!!!. I had thought about a F250 but just didn't want to drive the F250 on a daily basis and never thought I would ever approach the max tow capacity of the F150 and I never will. However, once I started really looking at trailers and all of the specs on payload, tongue weight, hitch weight, and all of the posts on forums like this I became really frustrated that maybe I had bought the wrong truck. I had to search long and hard for a solution and was fortunate that the KZ MXT 303 would meet my minimum needs for hauling and with a GVW of 8,800 would keep me just inside all of the legal weight specs. Yes I can't put anything in the truck other than myself, wife and son but it works and none of us can gain any weight. If I had it to do over again, yes I would have probably gone with a bigger truck. But I trade vehicles about every 6 to 10 years so no way was I going to dump a 6 month old F150 that is a great truck to move up to the F250.
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