Tow weight
Im new to the rv trailer world. I am currently in the market for my 1st travel trailer. The idea is to eventually find a full time/seasonal campground that has full amenities. I have small children an...
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Ejraste wrote:
Yeah, but if so many experienced people on this forum are stating that my little engine will have problems, it’s prob better to just go for a different truck/engine. I’m assuming that most V8’s and the turbo diesel v6’s should be able to pull what I’m looking for which would be a 30 foot 7000 lb trailer. I was looking at a 2018 Sierra with the 5.3L and then potentially looking at the RAMS.
For the record I didn't say your little engine will have problems, I said you may not like how fast it pulls hills. You will not hurt it running it hard a couple days a year. It's a truck not a Faberge egg.
If you upsize the truck, you are definitely getting more power, but you're not getting much in the way of chassis improvements.
I predicted the over analyzing this. Once you get the trailer, literally the only person or object that will care that it's the V6 model is YOU and even then you'll only care going UP hill.
Summer is half over, get to campin! Have fun! Your truck might actually thank you for having a little faith in it!
Remember, just because you don't work your truck doesn't mean there aren't a million of them out there every day pulling trailers and plenty of base model trucks doing it because those are the cheaper work trucks that companies who use trucks buy!
