Weight of hitch for calculating tongue weight
We have neither TT or TV,so I am trying to determine if the Ford Expedition will work for some of trailers we are looking at. A F150 will not fit in our garage, so that is out. Expedition: max tongue ...
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dnhx wrote:That's an excellent observation.
Although I understand why I should use the GVWR, I am a bit confused. The trailer we were looking at is 25' 9" and has a dry weight of 5240 and a GVWR of 7200. But the next trailer bigger is 28', dry weight of 5780 (over 500 lbs heavier) and has the same GVWR of 7200. Another TT we looked at is the Minnie Winnie 2351, which is 25' 10" comparable layout and options and has a dry weight of 5100 (150 less than the Keystone) but a GVWR of 7620. The Minnie Winnie 1801 is 21' 11", dry weight of 3780 but also has a GVWR of 7620 lbs. (not sure how you can stuff over 3200 lbs in a 22' trailer.) If you take 15% of 7620, you get 1143, which is actually over the F150 max tongue load of 1130.
I do not seeing the correlation between GVWR the trailer size and thus how much stuff you can put in it.
Just because a trailer has a Cargo Carrying Capacity of 2000 or 3000 or 4000# -- doesn't mean you're going to load 2000 or 3000 or 4000# of stuff into it.
Ron
