Buying a Northwood Nash from a private seller

donn0128 wrote:
Northwood builds aan excellent but HEAVY products. Be positive before purchase that you have enough load carrying capacity. Nash is their lower, or entey line, but is built the same as the Arctic Fox except less standard equipment. My only real concern with Northwood is the tires. They tend to use cheap ST tires. So if you decide to buy, budget in for new Maxxis or Salun tires.

Thanks for pointing this out because it is my main concern over everything else. Here is where I am: Called Northwood with the VIN and they gave me a weight of 5800. This model has dry weight of ~ 5300 lbs. So the options added 500. Loaded with stuff for a trip figure Gross of 7000. Leaves us around 600lbs of payload on the TV for wife, kids, me, and gas. This is under specs for my truck, but heavier than I wanted to go. I was hoping to keep it at 6500 gross. The extra weight means going over mountain passes would be rough, and windy conditions are not going to be ideal. But, we do have a 2005 2500 Chevy HD (diesel not gas) with only 90K original miles / original owner (father in law) available to us at any time for longer trips that will take us over mountains (i.e. driving from Sacramento, Ca to Central Point, Oregon for a 4 day country music festival in July) And my father in law is already drooling to trade me trucks for the trip :C
For local trips around the valley I think I should be confident pulling the trailer. I know some people will say way too much, some will say I could go more. The owners of the TT have pulled it with their Tundra...but I'll take my Chevy any day of the week ;-)