Finally weighed the TV and TT together... ugh
I thought maybe you math geniuses could help me out with my questions? TV = '12 Ram 1500, Hemi, 3.92 gears, 6800 GVWR, 1219 lb payload, GAWR 3900 lbs (front and rear), GCWR 15,500 TT = '13 Salem ...
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mkirsch wrote:
Unless you have a bunch of stuff in the bed of the truck, or your local high school's defensive line riding in the back seat that you aren't telling us about, the numbers indicate a 1700+lb tongue weight, probably close to 2000lbs as indicated.
The bed of the truck had a little kids bike in it, maybe 25lbs max.
If you were 50-75% overloaded on the receiver like that, you would see it and feel it, and it would be SCARY. We're talking flex, serious flex, in the receiver and possibly even the truck frame. It would not be safe to drive.
The truck drives absolutely fine with the trailer connected as I would expect it too.
Either the scale weight is wrong or there is something you're not telling us.
I have told you everything, no sense in not telling you if I am trying to find out what the issue is.
In my opinion there had to be something up with the scale that day to read that high or I actually had some of the TT tires on the TV scale portion.
AH64ID wrote:
I didn't see it anywhere in here, sorry if I missed it.
What all was in the TV when you weighed it?
The first time I weighed it, it had the whole family and a full tank of gas.
The bad. You have grossly overloaded the truck and rear axle, and possibly tires. What tires are on it?
It has the stock tires it came with.
Sure you are only camping within an hour of home, but I am not sure how that makes an overloaded setup safe? Do you exceed 35 mph? If yes, and based on the comment in the first thread I think you know it's not a good place to be with the family (assumption based on a triple bunk TT).
I don't think I ever said it makes it safe, just generalizing we take short trips with it.
Like I mentioned above, I think the scale had to messed up as the truck drives absolutely fine and most of the time you don't even know it's back there unless it is a bumpy road. I will have it re-weighed this weekend to see how the numbers compare. It will not be loaded as we are going on a trip but I will have the family, full tank of gas and the items that stay in the camper to get a good start.
If the numbers are still comparable with the first weigh, then I will be considering a upgraded TV or changing TT. The numbers to me just don't add up, like most of you have mentioned, there should be nowhere near 1700lbs of TW added to the truck.
