Huge discrepancies
We have been looking at F-150s. Each time we find one that looks like a likely candidate, we call the dealership and ask about it, including the payload capacity. Four out of four people have given ...
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brulaz wrote:
You have such a low payload because of that honking big and HEAVY diesel in your truck. You should have got an F350 or a gas F250.
The F150 is a lighter truck with a much lighter but still powerful engine. So it can carry about the same. No surprise there. The GVWR ratings the engineers put on these trucks make sense to me.
You failed to grasp my point. Or maybe you helped make it. There is NO DIFFERENCE mechanically in that F350 (SRW) that I "should have got". With the exception of a slightly larger bump stop. And that has no bearing on mechanical capability. Again, it's a RATING, an "arbitrarily" assigned number to keep you below a GVWR simply for the purposes of vehicle registration cost. Why do you think that on a F350 SRW you can "upgrade" to a 12,500 GVRW. Nothing changes on the truck except the number they print on the door.
