DallasSteve wrote:
Terryallan wrote:
In truth on Fords with the normal towing package the max tongue weight is 1050lbs for a 2013. so should you ever load your 7500lb GVWR TT up to it's max. You would have to have a tongue weight that is OVER 14 percent of the GVWR. As 12 percent is the recommendation . You should have no problem staying under the 1050 max. Again knowledge instead of money. And you will find that Ford puts the same hitch on all but it's max tow packages.
Also yes it will turn more RPM towing than it will not towing. But that is what it is designed to do, and there is NO TV that will turn the very same RPM towing, OR the same MPG, as it does not towing. You will be able to feel the TT behind any TV you buy. Any one who tells you different is not exactly truthing. Even the big trucks (18wheelers) work harder when the trailer is hooked up. And they turn more RPM and use lower gears when going up hills. You really think a pickup is designed to tow better than a Freightliner?
So hook up adjust the hitch, and let it run. Todays gas engines LOVE to run, and love to rev. They happy making power, runnin free, and using all the fuel being fed to them. And they SOUND GREAT doing it.
Now will a F250 with a diesel tow it better? IF it has enough payload yes it will. Not ALL F250, or 350 diesels have more payload than a F150. Diesels are heavy and sometimes take most of the payload.
It sounds like you're pushing back on the idea that it needs more truck, but I'm reacting to the tongue weight limits. If a trailer is 7,500 pounds empty (in this example), or 8 or 9,000 in the trailers I'm looking at, that pushes the tongue weight over 1,050 pounds (loaded) which I think is the F-150 limit. Do you disagree that a trailer that size needs more truck (that is, an F-250 or F-350)?
Read the original post. His TT is NOT 7500 lb empty. It has a GVWR of 7500 lb. Meaning that is the max weight allowed. He does not say what the UVW is. So it is well within the trucks max tongue weight limit. My TT has a 7250 lb GVWR. However it has a UVW of 4811 LB. I can't imagine it would EVER have 2800 lb loaded into it. So for me the 7250 GVWR is a non issue, and never a concern. It is in the -6000lb range (scaled) give or take a couple 100, depending on where it is going.
Now IF it were another TT with a dry weight / UVW of 7500. Then a more heavy duty truck would be needed. But for the TT the OP has asked about. A heavier truck is not needed.
As for length. You, me or anyone else will run out of weight long before we run out of length.
