Is my F150 powerful enough?

TomG2 wrote:
I apologize if I misjudged the OP, this quote is one more reason I think that he is having fun with us.

"...The RV dealer is willing to work with me and take the camper back, if that's what I want to do."

Have any of you actually seen a dealer reverse a deal because of "Buyer's remorse"? I have never seen one even come close. My last dealer had the manager examine my 2500 pickup to verify that it was good for towing a 6,000 pound travel trailer.

well - he DID say he'd get a smaller, cheaper trailer "without paying extra" that sounds like they'd give him a smaller cheaper trailer but make him pay the amount he paid on the bigger one. That'd be a win-win for the dealer. They get the more expensive trailer back and can re-sell it for list, and get more than the smaller trailer is worth. Doesn't sound like they are losing out on that deal.. IF this is for real.. Either the OP IS telling the truth (as sad as that may be, and I cringe thinking about it, as we just went and bought our bigger truck to get a bigger trailer than our F150 could handle) OR, they're REALLY good at trolling - in which case - kudos to him for being THAT good at it....

OP - it's been suggested you address payload capacity - we were ALMOST in this spot. This is how our story would have paid out, except I didn't believe the first answer I got and dug deeper. we, totally uneducated, read that the F150 could handle (I think it was around 13,500) GVWR. I didn't know what that meant at the time, but 'assumed' it was what we could tow. We went to the Dealer, picked out a 7500 Dry weight trailer (nearly 10k GVWR), and figured we were golden. Put down the deposit, the salesman questioned if we could tow it, we said we thought so. we left the Dealer, I called for service to just confirm, asked if the 13,500 GVWR was what we could tow, OR if it was the combined weight of the truck AND the trailer. They said it was what we could tow. We thought we were FINE. but there was this voice nagging in the back of my head - so I started to read. Called Ford, asked more questions, dug deeper. Was told by MANY of them, that we could do it (Our actual tow rating was 7700 lbs because we have a supercrew and no ecoboost - oh and all the other variables) Our PAYLOAD (and this is the REAL issue) the payload capacity was 1582. I think the trailer we got was like 1200.

Now what I found out that not everyone knows, is that the ford F150 tongue weight is generally 500 without the distribution hitch, BUT, it's really 10%-15% of your payload - so for a 7700 lb payload, the hitch could have been 770lbs so the hitch weight isn't set at 500, but has to take into account other factors.

needless to say, after 2 months of digging and pulling my hair out, we gave in, and bought a bigger truck. initially looked at 250s but landed on a 350 with a 3784 payload. our hitch of about 1200 lbs is nothing for it. that's dry weight- but even loaded it will be fine.

Anyhow - if you are serious, and this is real, I'd upgrade the truck. I'd not go less on the trailer, you'll be miserable and lining the dealers pockets.. get what you want, just upgrade the truck. the 350 we got was 2 years older, with the same payment and we added 2 years - but the payment was a wash and we got the trailer we wanted.

you can do this!