Ram tow ratings

BenK wrote:
Folks can look at as 'recommendations' too, but note that when my stuff came
back and found that the owner didn't follow my manual/specifications/etc...I'd
not sign off on any warranty the service department sent back to my design teams

Warranty, but okay, take as a recommendation from the OEM...so if you don't follow
that recommendation...then why would the OEM provide warranty?

My industry sector was not automotive, but no different from any market
sector.

It is my design, my specification that cost me tons of money to design
to a specification...and pay for certification by the regulatory agencies
and then field the product.

All that costs me money and expect to make money to stay in business.
Part of that business are warranty costs, plus other overhead expenses

As for the 'read me first', 'manual', etc documentation...it is well
established in the courts that folks generally do NOT read them. OEMs
can NOT force them to read them, nor follow them...so the courts just
look at 'good faith' that all that stuff is in the product...so if
you toss them all without reading them, or understanding them...is is
okay with the courts and you will not get warranty/liability/etc

Ben, I read them:B..but I'm OCD, and I'm a "spec man"...been one for a very long time., AND being an engineer and doing some R & D, see specs and "manufacturers recommendations", based on a whole lot of DATA, TESTS, GRAPHS, and other component engineering specs...believe you know all this and more..thus the reason I use "manufacturers weights and specs", because I know what went into a whole lot of research just to get tires, brake calipers, ABS manufactured where I am now and in WVa with Ingersoll Rand Continuous miners and roof bolters that I help manufacture. Even Radford Army Ammunition Plant run by Hercules where we manufactured Nitro-glycerin, TNT, solid fuel propellents and wadding for big guns on us Navy destroyers...red tape and specs like you wouldn't believe. Lived the specs and use them because I understand and it's the safest thing to do....it is what it is, though quite unpopular on these camping forums.

Jim