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chracatoa
May 15, 2014Explorer
Story time: when I bought my TV I bought the exact same model and year of a friend's TV which said 9000lbs towing capacity in the owner's manual. After I bought it and read the manual it said 7000lbs. WTF? It turned out Toyota had implemented SAE J2807 in the middle of that model year. We actually had the manuals side by side and the model number was exactly the same. So it is the same TV but with the updated ratings.
Payload didn't change of course but I was an idiot and didn't know anything about it.
I can pull my ~7000 TT comfortable with the PP (and I can have ~10% TW while keeping a lot of weight on the wheels) but I still wish I had a 3/4 ton. The TV was very expensive and we can't replace it anytime soon. Also, my wife would kill me if I bought a pickup truck to replace her favorite car. So there's that.
Payload didn't change of course but I was an idiot and didn't know anything about it.
I can pull my ~7000 TT comfortable with the PP (and I can have ~10% TW while keeping a lot of weight on the wheels) but I still wish I had a 3/4 ton. The TV was very expensive and we can't replace it anytime soon. Also, my wife would kill me if I bought a pickup truck to replace her favorite car. So there's that.
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