MFG Ratings what are the limiting factors
I know this post will not change the MFG rating no matter what is stated that is not the point. The point is that there are many after market products out there and in the end they do not change what ...
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Old-Biscuit wrote:
Mfg. published MAX TOW Rating numbers are joke--magical numbers.
Long before that number is reached the tow vehicles ratings will be reached/exceeded.
First number usually reached is 'actual payload' capacity (GVWR minus Actual weight)
Second number usually reached is OEM Rear Tire Max Load Ratings
Third number usually reached is GVWR
Fourth number usually reached is RAWR
Unless 'recertified' GVWR is GVWR
RAWR......depends on which rating you choose to go with. Vehicle mfg. rating OR the AXLE mfg. rating. Axle mfg.s is typically much higher
Rear tires can be upgraded to higher load rated tires.
Personally I am over trucks GVWR, right at Rear Tire Load Rating and barely under trucks RAWR.
I could change out tires to higher ratings but I know my weights and am comfortable with being at max load.
BUT one more 'bag of stuff' in truck or 5vr and I could be a hazard on the road :B
Wow, Old-Biscuit you make me feel so much better!!
I am well over GVWR, but at least 600# under on both axles, and with factory over sized tires (265/75-16E) have 3,660# of spare tire capacity! I look to have 1,400# of tire capacity to spare on the rear axle.
