Travel Trailer Purchase - Quality
Hey guys I have a question that I'm sure everybody has been asked but alot of what I have seen is at least a couple years old. We are in the market for a TT. We currently have a 1983 Palomino MXL Popu...
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APT wrote:
A WDH is required over about 600 pounds of tongue weight on every half ton I have seen. If you adjust the WDH such that 100% of front axle weight is restored, then only about 80% of loaded TW should be accounted for in payload. But dry weight will go up, as will dry TW.
Take your 1380 pounds of payload and subtract however much you an family weighs. Maybe that's 300 pounds or 800 pounds - you do not have to disclose. 1380-500=880 pounds for trailer TW. I'd look closer to 650 dry then.
Get a WDH with integrated sway control and learn how to adjust it.
Ok I feel a little better now I was beginning to think the only thing I could tow would be something less than about 5000 lbs.
SO If i'm understanding it correct, and I apologize if I'm not, I need to keep my tongue weight from the TT around say 650 to give me some payload room under the 1380 limit. I need to make sure then that the trailer is not more than about 6000 to 6500 lbs to keep it within the safety margin of the 9000 lbs capacity listed in the owners manual to account for cargo, water and such.
Towing the popup at only 1400 lbs this was not an issue.
