Towing with 1500
I am looking buy a used TT for me and my family. Def want a bunk house trailer with slide for the extra room. I will be towing with Silverado 1500 with 9200 tow cap. and 1850 payload. Also I will be u...
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Camper G wrote:
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STOP SHOPPING TTs BY DRY WEIGHTS! They are useless numbers. What is the campers gvwr your looking at? If it's that heavy "dry" i think you'll be at the trucks limits when loaded and I'd not want to work a brand new truck that hard. ....just my .02
This is very bad advice. Going by the CVWR is useless, there are numerous trailers out there that have HUGE CCC for example the Keystone Summerland 2980BHGS. Dry weight 6328 CCC of 3187+715 on the tongue for a total of 10230, witch would exceed the OPs specs. The "accepted norm" for loading 1000-1500 lbs, putting the realistic weight at 7328-7828, well within the OPs limit, Your way...not so much.
So if you went strictly BY GVWR you would rule out a lot of choices because NOBODY except Lucille Ball is going to carry 3K plus pounds of cargo.
Better to use realistic numbers than the GVWR in all cases.
