Is this safe?
This is our First RV and we just bought the truck this week! We’ve not officially bought this RV but it’s the one we put a deposit on it seems we would be like 800 or more over weight So we have ...
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Like Grit_dog, I do not claim to be among the weight cops. But I quite agree with him on this one. That is a capable truck, but the trailer is too much for it, especially as equipped, but I suspect regardless of mods you might make. You are not merely 700 lbs over payload, you are 700 lbs PLUS THE WEIGHT OF PASSENGERS and any other "stuff" you might have on board. Assuming just mom & pop, no kiddos, you are looking at 1100 lbs over, probably more. The towing experience will suck bigly, especially for an inexperienced driver, and yes, it will eventually damage the truck, and yes, probably unsafe, and might indeed cause issues with insurance, should (heaven forbid) there be an accident.
I highly recommend going with a trailer within the capacity of the truck. Remember, trailer sales people routinely lie that a customer's truck can handle a given trailer. They care only about making the sale, not about the customer's experience later. So much so, that there is a dark joke about it: Do you know how to tell if a sales person it lying? Their lips are moving.
