It looks like the 2000 Jayco Eagle 31' is the winner! We trust the dealer and he knew our circumstances and came down to a really good price to help us out.
๐ It just feels like us and we can really put our mark on it and make it ours(think cottage beach redo).
So anyhow, after checking out everyone's great suggestions for upgrading our vehicle (from my previous post about if we could tow a 39' Dutchmen
http://www.rv.net/forum/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/27558912.cfm), we really would like to get a 15 passenger 3500 van.
We have been wanting a 15 passenger van for awhile( my husband's uncle has one to haul amish). They are easy to find(unlike the 2500 Burb 8.1L) and affordable for us.
So we have been crunching #'s yet again and think everything checks out weight wise but I really wanted to run it past you guys real quick.
We are getting conflicting dry weights on the Jayco. One puts it at 6450 and the other at 6936. The dealer said it was around 6000, so I tend to believe the 6450.
GVWR of Jayco with the 6936 UVW listing is 9400. Obviously it would be slightly lower if the dry weight was just 6450. But we'll play it safe and go off of the higher weight. That would put the tongue weight at 1222(at 13%).
Ok so the van has a GVWR of 9600 and a payload of 3270 for the 2006 Express 3500 Extended. The 2002 has a slightly lower GVWR of 9500 but a higher payload of 3543.
We weigh 700 lbs(a little less, but rounding up) including our driver of 190 lbs. And we added in 100 lbs into the count for the WD.
So either van is fine with the payload it seems to us.
Tow weight of van is 10,000.
Thoughts on all this? Am I missing anything that would rule the 3500 van's out as our TV for the Jayco TT?
Thanks in Advance!!