What has 3 rows and can pull 9K?
Kinda sounds like a grade-school riddle, right? We recently purchased a trailer with a GVWR of 7700 pounds, and are looking for our next tow vehicle. (No rush yet, we won't need it until spring.) W...
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SpeakEasy wrote:camp-n-family wrote:
Don't forget as well that tow ratings reduce pound for pound with weight added to the vehicle. New ratings include 150lbs each for driver and 1 front passenger. Anything else added reduces the tow rating.
Wait. What???
Someone please explain or fact-check this statement.
So you're saying that a vehicle that has a 1700 lb payload capacity and 7000 lb towing capacity ACTUALLY has only a 5300 lb towing capacity if payload is maxed out (7000 minus 1700 = 5300)? That's how I am interpreting what you're saying, but it seems odd at best. Please clarify your meaning.
-Speak
Tow ratings are not calculated with a vehicle maxed out on payload. The new SAE2807 standards calculate the ratings with only a 150lbs driver and a 150lbs passenger. Previous to the 2807 standard coming into effect in the last couple of years, it only included 150lbs for a driver and nothing else.
The vehicle towing has to move the weight no matter if it's in the vehicle or trailer, therefor any weight added to the tv above the allotted standard weight will reduced the amount it is rated to pull, pound for pound. Your example is close. A tv with 1700lbs of payload and a 7000lbs tow rating would have its tow rating reduced to 5600lbs if it was loaded to its gvwr. It's reduced by 1400lbs because 300lbs is already included for driver and passenger using the new SAE2807 standards. (150lbs for each).
