2014 Nissan Titan PRo-4X
We own a 29' TT that weighs 7100 pounds dry. For our first season we used a 2008 Tahoe as our tow vehicle, travelling no more than 100 miles. While the Tahoe had enough power is was not a very stable...
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gmw photos wrote:silverfz wrote:hohenwald48 wrote:
A lot of folks on this site think you can't even tow a utility trailer unless you have a 1 ton, 4WD dually crew cab with a diesel engine. :)
Funny as my friend after reading got convinced into buy a Ram 3500 dually to tow his 7k camper. Absolute hates that thing....
strange to hear him say I prefer my ram 1500 Laramie to this truck I payed 30k more for.
So more is not really good. I drove that thing and man it was not fun coming from a tundra. I also grew up driving turbo diesel cars. but these trucks do not drive like the cars from 20 yrs ago I used to drive. they are like the 24 footer uhaul trucks.
But to say simply, "more is not good" is misleading when discussing this. If the 3500 series truck is a safer and more effective tow vehicle than the 1500 for the trailer in question is one issue.
To say a driver/owner "hates the thing" tells us little about how effective the truck is at towing the trailer.
The truck is more effective for sure, as he said he was doing 85 without much stress. Where we live , new England the campground are tighter and not really the open kind. so the parking has become harder for one. Also., he does not like driving it. I think its a combination of factors. I think he never ran into a payload issue as he had a ram 1500 double cab where he never put anything in the back to not to scratch the paint. So it was usually him, his wife and son with a dog in the cab. towing a 7k camper. He does not like how rough it drives.
the guy he brought it from used it as his commuter for a year and hated driving into boston with a dually and sold that to him.
