The dealers do not have crystal balls.
After reading some of these posts, I find it amazing that people expect the dealers to know what they are going to haul. The car dealer looked at my F-150 E-boost 4x4 and said the spec. sheet say...
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When we transitioned from tent camping to pop-up camping, we owned a Chevy Lumina Mini-Van. I new Jack-squat about tow vehicles. When we finally decided on the pop-up we fell in love with, the dealer simply told us, or vehicle was too small to tow it. (He was honest! and I never forgot that). We ended up getting a smaller pop-up, which served us well for 6 years and that Lumina towed without any problems all that time.
We finally traded for a Suburban 1500 when the air-conditioner went out on that Lumina and we could not get the freeon any more, and to convert the air conditioner would have cost as much as a new car! So we traded the Lumina under the original Cash for Clunkers program. They gave us $4000 for the car!
So I learned that day the importance of knowing the limitations of your tow vehicle! And I am still grateful to that RV salesmen for not letting me make a bad mistake.
Ever since then, I've educated myself! Do I have more truck than I need! Yup! But I also have NO issues towing either!
We finally traded for a Suburban 1500 when the air-conditioner went out on that Lumina and we could not get the freeon any more, and to convert the air conditioner would have cost as much as a new car! So we traded the Lumina under the original Cash for Clunkers program. They gave us $4000 for the car!
So I learned that day the importance of knowing the limitations of your tow vehicle! And I am still grateful to that RV salesmen for not letting me make a bad mistake.
Ever since then, I've educated myself! Do I have more truck than I need! Yup! But I also have NO issues towing either!
