Confused at Camping World

NCMODELA wrote:
I went in today to camping world in colfax, NC and was completely confused when I left. I have a Yukon XL 1500, 8400lb max tow. The person told me I could tow anything 8400lbs-1600lbs = 6800lbs(approx 20%). They showed me trailers from 5200lbs to 6400lbs. We almost left with one.

I was on this site under the travel trailer section asking what I could tow with this vehicle and they said I need to weigh the vehicle with everything in it, and the difference from the GVWR is what my max tounge weight can be. The person at camper world never said any of this. On top of this, them forum people were estimating the tounge weight at 12% of the GVWR of the trailer (this was 7700, tounge weight at 12% is 924, reported tounge weight from dealer is 675). Going this route the 6400 lb trailer they were showing me was too much weight for me.

I am completely confused. Why are people using two different formulas to calculate what i can tow?

Can anybody clarify this to me?

Thanks
Bill

First of all, you will find that a lot of people on here are very technical. You are also asking for the opinions of a lot of people. If you ask 100, you will get at least 75 different answers. The other 25 don't know or care and will just agree with someone who likes numbers.

Reading your statement, I think you are giving numbers for dry weight and wet weights. It looked like you were talking about dry weights when you said he said you could pull the amount minus the 20%. But when you were talking about tongue weight, you mentioned a number of 7700, which you didn't mention before. I'm assuming that is the GWR (wet weight), which is 924. I think that lower number (600 and something) is 12% of the dry weight. You need to look at the heavier weights and not the dry weights. And 20% is a good number to come off your max allowed towable. That should give you some wiggle room on the weights.

Just remember, because your truck say you can pull x amount of weight, doesn't mean you have to.