Towing question before purchase
Here's another towing question that needs answered before the big purchase!!! We have a 2010 Ford 150 super crew 4x2 with towing pkg 5.4L3-V8 Axle ratio 3.55 GCWR 15,300 Max loaded trailer weig...
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It really depends on what your towing performance expectations are really... Not what the dry specs of the trailer you are looking at...
IMO, when people say their truck is "struggling" to tow the trailer of their choice, it's not that the truck isn't capable of towing the load... It's the fact that the driver does not like the towing performance of that combo for their expectations. Sure, you can have a bad hitch setup and such.. But if the fact is the driver does not like to have the pedal to the floor and seeing the rpms over 4 grand, the truck is "struggling"... ;)
With either combo, if you go up any kind of grade, you will be in the lower gears and pulling higher rpms on the engine.. Thinking around 4000 + rpms depending on the grade.
This can be for a mile or for 10 miles.. It don't matter to the engine, but you sitting there listening to it and seeing it is another.. ;)
That would be a good size load for my 13 MAX TOW F150, but I pack heavy and account for that, so you having a 'regular' tow package F150 will do it and get you 50 miles away it's still gonna be what your towing expectations are going to be..
Ask yourself these questions..
Do you mind putting the pedal to the floor when needed?
Do you mind seeing the rpms over 4000?
Do you mind running on the flat land out of OD and pulling more rpms than you normally run not towing?
Do you mind exceeding one or more of your trucks other drive train ratings, even if you are "under" the infamous "tow rating"?
Bottom line.. The truck will physically tow that trailer and get you there and back if you are conscience of the fact you are at the trucks max limits and respect that fact..
The question only you can answer is what I asked above and can YOU handle it?? :)
Good luck!
Mitch
IMO, when people say their truck is "struggling" to tow the trailer of their choice, it's not that the truck isn't capable of towing the load... It's the fact that the driver does not like the towing performance of that combo for their expectations. Sure, you can have a bad hitch setup and such.. But if the fact is the driver does not like to have the pedal to the floor and seeing the rpms over 4 grand, the truck is "struggling"... ;)
With either combo, if you go up any kind of grade, you will be in the lower gears and pulling higher rpms on the engine.. Thinking around 4000 + rpms depending on the grade.
This can be for a mile or for 10 miles.. It don't matter to the engine, but you sitting there listening to it and seeing it is another.. ;)
That would be a good size load for my 13 MAX TOW F150, but I pack heavy and account for that, so you having a 'regular' tow package F150 will do it and get you 50 miles away it's still gonna be what your towing expectations are going to be..
Ask yourself these questions..
Do you mind putting the pedal to the floor when needed?
Do you mind seeing the rpms over 4000?
Do you mind running on the flat land out of OD and pulling more rpms than you normally run not towing?
Do you mind exceeding one or more of your trucks other drive train ratings, even if you are "under" the infamous "tow rating"?
Bottom line.. The truck will physically tow that trailer and get you there and back if you are conscience of the fact you are at the trucks max limits and respect that fact..
The question only you can answer is what I asked above and can YOU handle it?? :)
Good luck!
Mitch
