Overweight.
We are looking at a 29' puma camper with a slide . It's dry weight is 6500lbs. I would be towing with a 1500 chevy suburban. The manual says it will tow 8100lbs. I know the 6500 lbs is the trailer emp...
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Probably too much weight.
But using GVWR doesn't work, IMHO. In fact, it creates an odd situation in which you will tow a trailer with a light weight frame and marginal suspension components and correspondingly low CCC and not tow the same weight trailer with a stronger frame, stronger suspension and higher CCC. Weight estimates based on GVWR tell you nothing.
Best is to weigh the trailer. Absent that (difficult when you're buying new), Google to see if someone else has weighed the same trailer. Another option is to look at the yellow sticker and contact the factory to see how they came up with that weight (some actually weigh the trailer as it leaves the factory). If nothing else, take the published unloaded weight and add the approximate weight of any options you order plus battery and propane. For loaded weight, I'd estimate another 1500lbs plus whatever water you think you'll carry.
My yellow sticker weight is less than the brochure weight, though I can't remember off hand what it includes (Prime Time Avenger).
But using GVWR doesn't work, IMHO. In fact, it creates an odd situation in which you will tow a trailer with a light weight frame and marginal suspension components and correspondingly low CCC and not tow the same weight trailer with a stronger frame, stronger suspension and higher CCC. Weight estimates based on GVWR tell you nothing.
Best is to weigh the trailer. Absent that (difficult when you're buying new), Google to see if someone else has weighed the same trailer. Another option is to look at the yellow sticker and contact the factory to see how they came up with that weight (some actually weigh the trailer as it leaves the factory). If nothing else, take the published unloaded weight and add the approximate weight of any options you order plus battery and propane. For loaded weight, I'd estimate another 1500lbs plus whatever water you think you'll carry.
My yellow sticker weight is less than the brochure weight, though I can't remember off hand what it includes (Prime Time Avenger).
