Question about axle Ratios
Looking at two, 2017 RAM 1500 Laramie Trucks. One has a axle ratio of 3.21 and has a lot of options I like. The second one has a ratio of 3.92 but with less options, prices on both are very similar. ...
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proxim2020 wrote:
The tow capacity accounts for the driver, but the payload does not. The payload is the GVWR minus the weight the truck as it left the factory. The only thing it accounts for are factory installed options and fluids. Everything else counts against it.
I was about to go to bed and hadn't learned anything today.... now I have :) I had always thought the driver (or 2/3 of one anyway) was included. I've never been so close that it mattered and never gone off the sticker. I weigh the truck with me and my "stuff" in it and go from there. There always seems to be a few a few hundred pounds of invisible stuff. Probably just things like floor mats, bed liner, running boards, bed cover and a bin of tools.
