2011 Chev silverado 2500 2962# capacity updated

br549redneck wrote:

APT wrote:

br549redneck wrote:

Go to a 3500 SRW for 500 more lbs of payload?...

no, 1500 pounds. GVWR goes from 10,000 to 11,500...

Vehicle Series Hitch Type Maximum Tongue Weight
2500HD Fifth-Wheel Gooseneck 1134 kg (2,500 lbs)
3500 Single Rear Wheels Fifth-Wheel Gooseneck 1360 kg (3,000 lbs)

What you listed from the owners manual is not payload, it's pin weight. As mentioned GVWR does up 1500 pounds, so payload probably 1450 of that. Extended cab 4WD diesel GM has about 2600-2800 pounds of payload. 2WD 300 pounds more. So if you have 3000 pounds of payload with 2500 pounds of pin weight, what about the 250 pound receiver and two overweight adult males?

SWR 3500 is my recommendation, but they are harder to find usually. Many people just plan on air bags and 3/4 ton because the power is plentiful.

Looking at the 2011 brochure it list payload of the 2011 siverado 2500 extended cab 2wd with Duramax 6.6L Diesel max payload 3205 lbs

The RED part is where your problem is, You are going by brochure weights. IF you get a striped truck, ie no options, then you may have 3200 lbs of payload. If you get power windows, you have lost about 30 lbs per door. Cruise you lose 2 lbs. leather bucket power heated seats, another 400-600 lbs! At the end of the day, an ext cab diesel with weigh between 6500 and 7500 lbs sitting there ready to work, depending upon the interior trim level.
At one time, there were two other posters with 05 dually dmax trucks just like my old one. One weighed 7200 lbs, it was a base model rwd, mine weighed 7300 lbs, an LS 4wd, the other was 7600 lbs, it was a leather pkg setup. That is 400 lbs difference in payload between them. NONE of them had the brochure payload amount, the base was still 2-300 lbs more tare, ie lack of payload vs the brochure.

Marty