Help with hitch / tongue weight
Hello All! I'm in the early stages of camper shopping (wanting to upgrade) and I would love some help understanding the tongue weight limits. I have read on 1000 different sites that the max tongue w...
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lbrjet wrote:
Larry, your experts simply want to sell you a larger more costly hitch. It is called marketing.
You run your van with weight behind the axle without the trailer hooked up. What you fail to see (or will not admit to see) is that hooking up the trailer ( without shifting that aft weight) is no different than running without the trailer hooked up. That is the whole point. A truck is designed to run with a load in the bed and dropping a trailer on doesn't change that.
IMO this is some of the lamest reasoning I've see thus far. I stated a position on how cargo added after the TV axle should be treated which was agreed with by what I consider who should be EXPERTS in this a major hitch retailer and THE MAJOR manufacturer of three of the most popular systems, REESE, DRAW-TITE, and HIDDEN HITCH and provided clear cites/references to current documentation from them which agree with my position. What you fail to be able to do is to read and understand what I provided and want to create some unsupported rationalization to say they are wrong and try and say it's only marketing to sell us something which it clearly is NOT. They are only giving you the proper way to correctly size you WDH components that you are going to buy anyway.
Your inability to read and be willing to understand what I have said is evident in your understanding of the temp cargo of 20 gal of diesel and the generator and other cargo that normally is not carried except when towing and then not always or in the same position.
I think you are the one that is failing to UNDERSTAND, NOT ME.
Larry
