F250 Payload Capacity
I am looking at buying a used F250 but the door sticker seems to have a lot lower payload than I thought it would have. The truck fits the price range my wife and I are in. We are looking at a 1995 Ha...
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bigfootford wrote:
The 17" tires/rims are great. Think the weight capacity of each is 3700lbs.
Numbers can be funny.
My tires are load range E tires, 3195 @ 80 psi.
The rear GVW rating for my truck is 6200 lbs.
With the camper fully loaded each rear tire is overloaded by 380 lbs.
Yet going by the max recommend payload of 3380 lbs including passengers I'm only 576 lbs over what they say is max payload.
Going by the trucks 9500 GVW I'm 1040 lbs over.
My truck empty with me inside and 1/2 tank of gas weighs 6580 lbs.
Without me in the truck it weighs 6400 lbs.
Add their max payload of 3384 and that brings the trucks total weight to 9784 lbs with only 1/2 tank of gas.
So using their own numbers they are telling me that the truck fully loaded can weigh 284 lbs over their GVW of 9500 lbs.
So, in all reality going by their numbers I'm really only over by 746 lbs and not the 1040.
LOL :B
The weight in the brochures includes everything except liquids and options.
