Buying first TT - New or Used?
Hello! We are a family of 5 with three small children (ages 7,6,2) and we are wanting to buy a travel trailer - doing alot of research - and wondering if we should buy new or used. New we are thinking...
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Thank you everyone for your replies, much appreciate reading all the collective wisdom and advice. We have bought a used 2008 Toyota Tundra 5.7L V8 4x2 TRD SR5 and the yellow sticker on the door says: "The combined weight of occupants and cargo should never exceed 1360lbs" My spouse kids and me weigh 430lbs so does that mean we have 930lbs leftover for cargo in the truck bed, tongue weight of the trailer and weight distribution hitch? If I have a 5,500lb TT with 1,500lbs of stuff in it giving me a total TT GVW of 7,000 and my tongue weight at say 12% that would be 840lbs leaving me with only 90 more pounds in TV? Basically the weight of the WD hitch and a few bags. So would that work well and would that be safe and would I have any problems going from So Cal to the Sierra's or say 8k feet elevation in the mountains?
