Max Tow F150s

Fordlover wrote:

FishOnOne wrote:

bid_time wrote:
That's were you're wrong. Most everyone here uses their truck 85% of the time going back and forth to work, 15% of the time towing a traier. Good news though, there are forums for elitist, smart ass know it alls.

Well said...

And if a F150 Max Tow was in my future I would simply order it. No big deal.

Agreed.. But I wasn't willing to make a 55K dollar gamble on the chance that a HD F-150 would be sufficient to tow my camper. Because of course there weren't any HD F-150's I could rent to test tow, nor even a truck on the lot in all of the Houston area to test drive. This needle in the haystack effect was a contributing factor to going with the F-250. I was able to test drive a truck that the suspension and drive train was identical to what I ended up ordering.

It's worth repeating... 3/4 and 1 tons aren't for everyone. I towed with a Ford Explorer for 10 years before I upgraded, and it's not even as stout as a modern half ton, but towed circles around my previous mid 90's F-150. Not everyone tows the same distances, in the same circumstances, with the same regularity.

While visiting dealers, one thing I discovered about the HDPP trucks, they don't order them because few people know enough about them to ask about them. A lot of the sales personnel are clueless, and they using the term Max Towith as if it is the HDPP.

I wasn't looking for one on the lots, but I was looking for the best deal when ordering.

I got a $53,000 truck for $45,000 plus Tax/Title, and the dealer didn't resist my offer, because that was profit that wasn't coming until I brought it to them, as opposed to the truck already sitting on the lot.

As for gambling on the HDPP being able to tow my trailer, the specs said I could, and reading about HDPP equipped trucks towing in the F150 forum, I was convinced it would tow.

The only persons proclaiming it can't were guys with big trucks who either towed with some over burden, antiquated and old 1/2 ton, or guys who if faced with heavy towing, would never tow heavy with a 1/2 ton, and go straight to a 3/4 ton or larger, but proclaim it can't because they wouldn't.

I'm not spending my dollars based on that.

If the specs says I can, and people who are towing heavy with HDPP 1/2 tons are doing it, I'm rolling the dice on that.

I've rented the gas 2/3 tons, and I know without a doubt I don't like those. It towed on flat land well, but I wouldn't want anything to do with it when not towing.