Making sense of Tow #'s
Looking at buying my first truck and need some help with Towing. We're planning to get an RV in a year or 2 and I want it to do it right the first time! Looking at a 2011 F150 Supercrew Ecoboost w...
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itguy08 wrote:Old-Biscuit wrote:
Tongue weights will be closer to 15% (even more) than 10%
Yes Ford claims 11,200# towing but are you 150# and going by yourself?
When the towing experience is no fun......folks stop going and having fun.
Is it 15% from the #s in the brochure or 15% from the GVWR of the trailer? Cause when I do 10 and 15% from the GVWR or even the unloaded weight, none of those #'s match what's printed in the brochures.
This is way confusing!
GVWR.
Brochures lie :B Well maybe not lie..but fuzzy math for sure
And forget 'dry' numbers....nobody tows dry and dry doesn't always include options/add-ons etc.
