Tow Capacity Comparisons For 2015 Trucks
Here are three links to some truck brand comparisons for half-ton, three-quarter and one ton trucks with some jaw dropping surprises. Half-ton Truck Realistic Towing Capacity Three-quarter Ton...
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2003silverado wrote:
LOL some people on this forum can't be satisfied. Every day it seems like there is a post of someone wanting to pull a heavy fifth wheel with a 3/4 ton and the responses are "sure you can tow it, but you will be way over your gvwr, you need more truck". Then this tow guide comes out and gives probably some of the most accurate ratings because they take into account all the numbers, most importantly gvwr and the people here are balking that the numbers are way too low because "the manufacturers say it can tow xxxx lbs".
A 25 series truck can probably pull safely no less MORE than what the manufacture says, including staying with in gvwr depending upon numurous items.
ISSUE I HAVE with any tow rating, is what is the true specification being used? Does it match up with MY specification I NEED to tow a trailer to where I NEED to tow a trailer too! That includes grades into the mid and upper 20% range. If you look at the new spec, the engineers have only speced a 12% grade. So said rig will pull using there specs, question is, how does one change deduct or equal, their spec to work in MY situation! Payload weight capacity is easy, but the actual performance spec part is the hard one!
The other spec, is a max 80 sq ft trailer! How many of you with front bedroom slide rigs have 100-120 sqft trailers? quite a few. So with no deduct for over sized sq footage, you could have warranty denial issues. For ea 3-4 sq ft over base, is an approx equal to adding 1000 lbs of hp needed to move an equal unit. So with 120 sq ft of trailer vs the spec of 80, that is upwards of an additional 10-15K lbs of trailer equal!
More to pulling a trailer than meets the eye than just the wt specs than the engineers in Detroit or equal have given you!
Marty
Marty
