my new tow vehicle - well, maybe
Well, I purchased my wife a 2009 Tahoe yesterday, and I am thinking this may be our next tow vehicle. I still have my truck, but I am thinking I will get rid of the fifth wheel and get a bumper pull ...
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Need-A-Vacation wrote:
Payload will probably be your limiting factor with the Tahoe.
Here's the bad news....look at the sticker on the driver's door jamb for "payload". Load up the family in the Tahoe and when you're out for ice cream one afternoon swing by a scale and see how much the Tahoe weighs with all the passengers. Whatever is left over is available for tongue weight. Divide that by .15 and that will give you the fully loaded weight of the max trailer you can tow. Subtract 1000 to get to the dry weight.
Example: The GVWR on the Tahow is 7000 lbs, and it weighs 6400 with the family on board. &000-6400=600 lbs available for tongue weight. 600 / .15 = 4000 lbs, that's your max loaded trailer weight.
Watch the payload on the these, they don't do well if overloaded by too much.
