bkcauley wrote:
The TT I'm looking at is 6450 with a tw of 745 so that's 11.56 percent on the tounge. So that's good.
If this is dry weight info., I'd be cautious. As an example, in our case, we bought a TT with an advertised dry tongue weight of 540 lbs which worked out to 10% of TT's dry weight. When we got it and weighed it all loaded up, the tongue weight was around 960 lbs and just under 15% of gross weight. Fresh water tank is well ahead of the axle too which would have made it worse, but we don't intend to use that tank. Part of the weight increase is likely due to some of the options we got. No issues with our 3/4 ton TV but it was a bit of a surprise. If we had a 1/2 ton TV, it could have been an issue. I also weighed every single mod. item that was installed and along with gear and everything else for camping, it only added 674 lbs to the factory dry wt.
actual vs factory dry weights Not sure why the factory dry tongue wt. is so low other than maybe it's for marketing purposes...
If narrowing down some choices, maybe you could some actual weights from owners of the same TT on this or other forums. Or get the dealer to put it in writing that the tongue wt. will not go above your limit, lol.
