Trying to figure out what trailers I can tow

valhalla360 wrote:

ken56 wrote:
I spent the last 12 years out of my 32 years working at GM at the Flint Assembly plant and I never did see where those trucks were weighed and stickered. I was on skilled trades and was everywhere in that plant. No idea how they figured out the weight of those trucks with their different options as they rolled off the line. Maybe I just didn't pay attention.....

I always assumed the guys who said there was a scale were just making it up.

Unlike RVs, the automotive industry, they know the weight of each piece and part down to the gnats ass. They probably just add up the weights based on selected options. They might do an occasional sample vehicle to confirm but I doubt they have a scale at the exit to the plant with a guy typing up the yellow stickers as each truck gets weighed.

Ford had a list for adding and subtracting the weight of those various options. I downloaded it from some Ford site courtesy of someone on the F150 Forum. Sorry, no link. But it appears their weight listings are calculated, vice actual weighing each vehicle.