Need help choosing new tow vehicle
I know there are a lot of people on RV.NET that tow all sorts of things with a lot of different tow vehicles so what better place to ask your opinion on my tow vehicle choices so far. Right now I am ...
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Read every article and review you can find and above all ask others here and
on the next camping trip. I have been doin the same. I saw one article by
a well known automotive magazine which said some new pickups are not optimized
for towing but others are. What the H does that mean. I talked to a insurance executive on the last camping trip and he liked GM pickups because they did not have all the turbo this and that critical computer components. HU? He said in a accident the cost to repair those highly technical components is very costly. Getting every horse out of a standard light weight engine is getting to be tricky and highly technical. He said it causes more trucks to be "totaled" after an accident, just to costly to put all that stuff back and get it running again That's because they talk us into taking the money when it seems hopeless. Amazing what you can learn by passing the time of day. This has just confused me more but it makes some sense. I don't like plastic bumpers on pickups and won't buy one that has them. The paint breaks off scratches and bugs are hard to remove without damaging the paint. They fade and just look stupid on a pickup. That attitude cuts my choices down. I have a old burbon with the 5.3 and it pulls 7,000lbs good enough but I don't race anyone in Branson and I have to really control my descent in mountains with emergency run away ramps. Pickups seem better in breaking situations. Engine braking helps but at a point you have to drop the rpms and push the trany back in drive. At this point it gets down to your truck and RV brakes. I followed some semi's once who were burning brakes resulting in smoke like a engine fire. It took all the skills I had to stay in control down that hill. They had signs all over the place for Semi's to pull over and check their brakes and equipment. Also to watch for emergency run away ramps. This was just N. of Sedona. Imagine if it was raining. Unless you
are very rich buying a tow vehicle can put your kids on hot dogs
and beans so do your research.
on the next camping trip. I have been doin the same. I saw one article by
a well known automotive magazine which said some new pickups are not optimized
for towing but others are. What the H does that mean. I talked to a insurance executive on the last camping trip and he liked GM pickups because they did not have all the turbo this and that critical computer components. HU? He said in a accident the cost to repair those highly technical components is very costly. Getting every horse out of a standard light weight engine is getting to be tricky and highly technical. He said it causes more trucks to be "totaled" after an accident, just to costly to put all that stuff back and get it running again That's because they talk us into taking the money when it seems hopeless. Amazing what you can learn by passing the time of day. This has just confused me more but it makes some sense. I don't like plastic bumpers on pickups and won't buy one that has them. The paint breaks off scratches and bugs are hard to remove without damaging the paint. They fade and just look stupid on a pickup. That attitude cuts my choices down. I have a old burbon with the 5.3 and it pulls 7,000lbs good enough but I don't race anyone in Branson and I have to really control my descent in mountains with emergency run away ramps. Pickups seem better in breaking situations. Engine braking helps but at a point you have to drop the rpms and push the trany back in drive. At this point it gets down to your truck and RV brakes. I followed some semi's once who were burning brakes resulting in smoke like a engine fire. It took all the skills I had to stay in control down that hill. They had signs all over the place for Semi's to pull over and check their brakes and equipment. Also to watch for emergency run away ramps. This was just N. of Sedona. Imagine if it was raining. Unless you
are very rich buying a tow vehicle can put your kids on hot dogs
and beans so do your research.
