Towing weight limit
I have a 37 foot 2001 fleet wood discovery with the 325 CAT engine. The manual states that the hitch will handle 5000 pounds max with 500 pounds tongue weight. I am trying to find a toyhauler and the...
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way2roll wrote:ferndaleflyer wrote:
I think your question is about a toy hauler not the DP you mentioned. I have no idea what my 32ft Pace tri axel trailer with a door car, atv, generator, etc weighs but I have towed it over 100,000mi behind my 40ft Winnebago DP with a factory hitch and never had any sign of a problem. I check everything closely and often. What I find on this site is often more what you can't do rather than what you can do by experts that have never done it...But I see 7000+lb trailers all over the race tracks many being towed by 1/2 ton pickups and class C motorhomes which I doubt have a class V hitch..Just my thoughts.
Advising someone to ignore and exceed the limits of their equipment is pretty irresponsible. It's likely you have a 10k hitch on yours in which you probably are fine. With a 5k hitch you probably wouldn't be.
Tiffin has a HITCH RECALL on their Ford Chassis motorhomes built since 2011. The reason? IDIOTS towed MORE than the 5000lb hitch rating and the Hitch mount to the chassis separated. HOW did Tiffin know this? The only 2 failures were documented by Tiffin that they were towing about 7500 lbs. So, Tiffin has a recall to install back up plates and larger mount bolts for the hitch and frame rails. Tiffin understands that IDIOTS will not follow the 5000 lb rating and decided to recall and beef up for those that exceed the safety ratings. JUST BECAUSE YOU DO SOMETHING WITH NO ADVERSE AFFECTS DOES NOT MEAN IT IS A SAFE THING TO DO---THINK IDIOTS TEXTING AND OPERATING THEIR CELL PHONES WHILE DRIVING. Doug
