Making sense of Tow #'s
Looking at buying my first truck and need some help with Towing. We're planning to get an RV in a year or 2 and I want it to do it right the first time! Looking at a 2011 F150 Supercrew Ecoboost w...
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itguy08 wrote:
Thanks. I was wondering what an average for all that stuff would be. Most likely I'd never travel with the tanks full - we're mainly looking at campground camping so emptying tanks before we leave would not be an issue.
The 1850 is straight off the yellow sticker on the truck. I verified it after the test drive.
Anything that may have been added (bed liner, bed cap, step bars, floor mats, etc) to the truck, since it left the assembly line, will reduce payload, pound for pound.
Only way to get actual payload available, is to weigh the truck (with full fuel and driver) and subtract that weight from GVWR. The difference is available for WD hitch, passengers, cargo, and trailer tongue (hitch) weight. On your truck, that may, or may not be 1850.
Couple weeks ago, there was a poster who assumed they had max payload (advertised number) of 2390. After weighing and comparing to GVWR, they found they only had 1400 available. That truck was a late model F150.
