The dealers do not have crystal balls.
After reading some of these posts, I find it amazing that people expect the dealers to know what they are going to haul. The car dealer looked at my F-150 E-boost 4x4 and said the spec. sheet say...
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I think part of the blame lies with the truck makers. They advertise these huge tow #s for all their trucks. And yes you an buy that and tow that with the appropriate package.
The problem is determining what packages you have or need to have to get those #s. They seem to be purposefully obfuscated. And every truck looks like every other truck.
Take the F150 for example. It has tow ratings form 5k to 13k. They all look alike and it gets very hard to figure out what the rating exactly is. Sure you can "back into it" with the payload and GVWR ratings but those are best guesses at best without the actual window sticker. Some make that easy, some make that hard. For Ford you can generate them on line and see just what it was built with.
I'm thinking there should be some more notations on the payload sticker detailing tow capacity. That would give the consumer easy access to the tow ratings and would make it less confusing to everyone.
The problem is determining what packages you have or need to have to get those #s. They seem to be purposefully obfuscated. And every truck looks like every other truck.
Take the F150 for example. It has tow ratings form 5k to 13k. They all look alike and it gets very hard to figure out what the rating exactly is. Sure you can "back into it" with the payload and GVWR ratings but those are best guesses at best without the actual window sticker. Some make that easy, some make that hard. For Ford you can generate them on line and see just what it was built with.
I'm thinking there should be some more notations on the payload sticker detailing tow capacity. That would give the consumer easy access to the tow ratings and would make it less confusing to everyone.
