Need to look at those weight labels

[minnow]

A week or so back I posted a question about differing net carrying capacities amongst different manufactures with basically the same floor plans and lengths. Some were twice as much as others.
We were at an RV show yesterday and I was shocked at what the advertised brochure said the NCC was and what the actual NCC was as listed on the trailers weight sticker. I found the greatest discrepancy on Forest River and their different brands of fifth wheels.
A couple of the models, the brochure listed NCC as 1500 lbs and the actual NCC was just 900 lbs. With that low of a NCC, I think most of us would be overweight pulling out of the driveway for a weeks vacation. Is it any wonder, why there are so many tire and axle complaint topics ?
The trailers weight sticker can usually be found on the street side, front of the unit and buyers really need to look at them.

[minnow]

PawPaw_n_Gram wrote:

minnow wrote:
Well that's a little too late isn't it. Wouldn't I want to know the true NCC before I put down 35 grand ?

As Robert Heinlein said "Of course the game is rigged, but you can't win if you don't play."

Go for the best NCC you can find - but do expect the true NCC to be a bit less.

But also realize you have to ensure the TV axle weight, the TV payload weight, the 5er pin weight and others are all within limits.

NCC is perhaps the least important of the critical weights.

To each their own I guess.

[PawPaw_n_Gram]

minnow wrote:
Well that's a little too late isn't it. Wouldn't I want to know the true NCC before I put down 35 grand ?

As Robert Heinlein said "Of course the game is rigged, but you can't win if you don't play."

Go for the best NCC you can find - but do expect the true NCC to be a bit less.

But also realize you have to ensure the TV axle weight, the TV payload weight, the 5er pin weight and others are all within limits.

NCC is perhaps the least important of the critical weights.

[sdetweil]

donn0128 wrote:
Almost all to towables now come with a yellow tag glued on somewhere that states the weight as it left the factory, GVWR and a couple other useful pieces of information. Brochures are usually published way before production begins and are notoriously inaccurate.

my yellow tag in on the bottom inside face of the door, 2013 Alpine.

[donn0128]

Almost all to towables now come with a yellow tag glued on somewhere that states the weight as it left the factory, GVWR and a couple other useful pieces of information. Brochures are usually published way before production begins and are notoriously inaccurate.

[minnow]

PawPaw_n_Gram wrote:
The brochure almost always list the weight specs for a unit with one ac and no options.

Add a second AC, and a residential fridge with extra batteries and bigger inverter - and you've lost 400-500 lbs of NCC.

Even worse - the sticker on the unit is the weight when that unit leaves the factor assembly line. Almost always the weight of the propane tanks, the weight of the battery and the weight of the spare tire are not included - so those subtract from the posted NCC to the actual NCC.

Always take your 'new' trailer straight to a set of scales before adding anything - and find the real weight and the now much reduced NCC.

Well that's a little too late isn't it. Wouldn't I want to know the true NCC before I put down 35 grand ?

[PawPaw_n_Gram]

The brochure almost always list the weight specs for a unit with one ac and no options.

Add a second AC, and a residential fridge with extra batteries and bigger inverter - and you've lost 400-500 lbs of NCC.

Even worse - the sticker on the unit is the weight when that unit leaves the factor assembly line. Almost always the weight of the propane tanks, the weight of the battery and the weight of the spare tire are not included - so those subtract from the posted NCC to the actual NCC.

Always take your 'new' trailer straight to a set of scales before adding anything - and find the real weight and the now much reduced NCC.

[dahkota]

Sometimes, the net cargo carrying capacity includes a full tank of water. Our last tt had two CCCs: one with full fresh water included and one without.