greydawg00 wrote:
What would your pre-tax out the door price be on the F150?
$35500 no negotiation yet.
A F150HD has a small 4800 RAWR, The trucks rear axle when empty may weigh in the 2300-2500 lb range. Now add 2740 lb payload in the bed = 5140 lbs. The trucks rear axle/suspension/wheels are now over loaded.
Fords 2740 lb payload is a GVWR payload which means 2400 lbs will go in the bed over the rear axles and the remaining 340 lbs will go over the trucks front axles.
This is a fallacy of using a GVWR based payload with some of the new high GVWR/low RAWR trucks.
So this is where I start to get confused ... I understand exactly what you are saying but then why are the F250s only 10000lb GVWR and thus around 2k payload with a 6100lb RAWR. Seems based on numbers the F150 carrys more than the F250 even though the F250 is much bigger and stronger. This makes no sense. Is there some other reason they limit the F250 to 10k GVWR?
Anybody that has real world towing experience of that weight with F150 HD and/or F250 6.2l gas? Hate that there is no way to test tow with the vehicles to see which I am more comfortable with. I now the F250 is overall better but really don't want to overspend if the F150 will be enough.
The 2500/250 trucks are limited to 10,000 lbs of GVWR to avoid certain restrictions or hoops. Higher registration, DOT numbers for businesses and etc. So the payloads are limited on paper. The truck in my sig has a 2300 lb payload rating based on the 10,000 GVWR. The combined axle rating is 12,500, though, with a 6500 lb RAWR. Gas 2500s have higher payload ratings simply because they weigh less, but in the real world they can't carry or tow any more than their big diesel brothers. As was stated previously, the payload sticker doesn't tell the whole story.
I paid less than $4k more than your F150 price for the truck in my sig about two months ago.
