Swear my last question not. TT weight
Ok I'm looking at Jayco jay flight 32' fully load its 9000lbs. My truck can tow up to 8500lbs. I know I'll never fully load it. Would you buy it or stay clear of it?
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Camper76 wrote:
Ok it's gvwr is 6,325.
Terryallan wrote:
With that low a GVWR. I'm guessing. Your payload / carrying capacity, is in the 900lb range.
SoundGuy wrote:
Doubt it would be that low, all depends on the truck's dead weight with a full tank of gas, no passengers, no cargo - subtract that number from the truck's GVWR and the OP won't be guessing, he'll know what it's actual payload capacity is.
Terryallan wrote:
Agree. I'm just guessing based on experience. The only way to know is to weigh it. But it would have to have a awful light curb weight to have much more payload than that.
I've never owned a RAM but I do seem to recall they are in general lighter than my Silverado CrewCab. It's a 2012, has a stickered GVWR of 7000 lbs, and a capacity label indicating the maximum weight of all occupants and cargo should never exceed 1455 lbs. That by definition means it should have a base weight with a full tank of gas of 5545 lbs ... I've put it on a scale and it in fact weighs 5565 lbs including the cargo box liner so the indicated numbers and actual numbers from the scale are remarkably similar. I've since added a soft tonneau cover but I doubt it even weighs 20 lbs. Regardless, with ~ 1400+ lbs of payload capacity to work with, once I account for the weight of just my wife & I along with our son's Bernese Mtn dog, a couple hundred pounds allowance for cargo in the back, and an average of just 625 lbs gross tongue weight transferred from the trailer I'm pretty well tapped out - to stay within the numbers I just can't carry any more while towing our 19' couple's trailer which only averages ~ 4700 lbs loaded & ready to camp. Shocking when you actually look at the numbers honestly. :E
