Anyone tow with a Nissan NV 3500 van?

SoCalDesertRider wrote:
I don't know what the base price difference is between an NV3500 and an E350, but if you don't like the rear interior and seats of the E350 Club Wagon, get an E350 cargo van instead and put in whatever seats and interior you like and you can have it as comfortable, safe and custom fit as your heart desires. :)

I don't know what the GCWR of an E350 with the gas engine is, but our '05 with the diesel has 20,000 GCWR, 9500 GVWR and 6000 RGAWR. It can pull most bumper pull travel trailers without a worry about power or weight ratings, other than the tongue weight rating of the receiver hitch itself (10K GTW, 1000 tongue weight, IIRC), which can be upgraded.

Custom to your heart's desire?

Only the Window vans can come with dual factory rear air conditioning. The Cargo van can not have factory dual air and heat in the back. So the option left is to buy a window van with dual A/C, then get the seats sold, and install the interior that you desire.

The new Transit can come in three interior heights, so will be nice. The powerful V6 3.5L Ecoboost used in the F-150 will be installed, so will a 6 speed auto. If you want the largest van, the tall extended van, then you can decide between DRW or SRW. Other lengths and shorter height will not come with dual rear wheels. Cab and chassis can come with SRW or DRW, and at some point I expect it to have a GVWR around 14,000 like the current E-450.

Ford has a copywrite on the T-150 to T-550.

You can buy some really nice aftermarket seats. The factory seats can be sold to a company like a airport shuttle service, as they always are wearing out seats, and can use some replacements after the vans have 350,000 miles on them.

I think the air port shuttle vans will also benefit from the Transit large area behind the 15 passenger seats. Currently many will take out the 4 passenger rear most bench, to make room for luggage. Still it is difficult to fit in 10 passenger's worth of luggage in that small 4' deep area behind the 3 bench seats.

You can find more Transit information here. https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/products/trucks/transit/2014-transit.html

GVWR should be between 8,600 and 10,250 pounds on the Transit. However these tires might limit the GVWR a bit. They are not the 235/85R16E tires that are in the current E-350. The T-350 will have even smaller 195/75C tires. C weight range is pretty low.

Quote:
WHEELS AND TIRES
Wheels 16-in. steel
Tires 235/65R16C 121/119R BSW (single rear wheel), 195/75R16C 107/105R BSW (dual rear
wheel)

From a PDF found on the bottom of the link posted above.

Right now Ford is very busy producing as many F-150's as they can. They are selling F-150's every 45 seconds, and have already produced more F-150's in 2013 than a full year of 2012. The new transit will be built in the same plant as the F-150, while the old Econoline plant will change over to Class A motorhome chassis's that had been produced in Mexico now.

F-150 production news release

Good luck on your purchase.

Fred.