Weights and capacities - Sierra 2500HD D/A
I have another thread going over on the 5th wheel forum as my wife and I contemplate retirement (2nd time around) and we consider going full-time (or most-time) in a fifth wheel. ken56 has a good thre...
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Second Chance wrote:
BenK,
I haven't seen a "curb weight" listed for the truck except perhaps in the sales literature. I don't have an image hosting site to enable posting to this forum, but all the weights in the first column of my original post are straight off the door sticker. At this point, my plan is to stay 13K or under with 2,400 or less pin weight. Looking at the smaller NuWa HitchHikers (probably used), this is doable.
Rob
Curb weight is a useless figure in the towing world. Almost as useless as the yellow payload sticker, although the yellow payload sticker does give you an idea of what you can carry. You can't do any real figuring from it. The best weight is the scaled weight of the TV ready to go this is what you have to work with the difference between GVWR and Scaled weight is your payload remaining for tongue or pin weight!!
That is like using DRY weight and DRY pin to figure if the trailer is too big. The ONLY time you can use DRY weights, is if you know very closely what the stuff you load the trailer with weighs, then the pin is still an estimation.
