Ram tow ratings
I'm looking to purchase a Grand Design Solitude 384GK. The GVWR is 16,000 lbs. UVW 13,400 with the hitch weight of 3,150. My truck is a 2011 3500 Mega Cab dually, 4x4 ,3.73 gears, with the 6.7. Doing ...
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tinner12002 wrote:southernsky wrote:
I'm looking to purchase a Grand Design Solitude 384GK. The GVWR is 16,000 lbs. UVW 13,400 with the hitch weight of 3,150. My truck is a 2011 3500 Mega Cab dually, 4x4 ,3.73 gears, with the 6.7. Doing some homework of the tow rating of my truck am I seeing right of 2,600 payload and 12,950 Max. trailer? Seems a bit light for a 1 ton dually. At those numbers the Solitude 384GK will be to big for my truck.
Hard pill to swallow but it sounds like its time to upgrade. A 2015 2500 SRW has more towing capacity than your truck but it won't quite handle the RV you have listed...a 3500 will in dually form...the pin weight is what gets you to the dually.
No pill to swallow and no upgrade in trucks needed unless you refuse to be over weight on paper. Otherwise, don't worry about it. That truck is about as stout as they get save for going to a class 4 or 5 truck, which is unnecessary for your purpose. And if it's a HO which a mega dually likely is, you're not giving up much in torque either to the new trucks either.
On the upside, if you do upgrade, your current truck will fetch close to $40k likely in good shape and not too many miles. If you downgrade cabs to a cclb dually you can probably have a new truck for about $10k upcharge, but a new Mega will drain more out of your wallet.
