tow weight opinions for a possible upgrade
Have the 09 silverado in my signature. we are looking into moving to a viewfinder 28bhss. dry weight or little under 6000. we do not ever tow with loaded fresh grey or black tanks. use linx level...
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HOw long will the four of you be at 400 lbs? Heck my ex and I are 400 lbs....now add in our 4 kids, I think the minimum we were was around 600 or so, now try 1300-1400 when the kids were adult sized teens! I'd have the op's truck at gvwr before adding the hitch wt of a trailer! so my tow capacity would be zilch, nada, nothing! or what happens when those two tots say, can we bring a friend ea? now you are in my wt catagory!
Reality is, at some point in time......if you go to a bigger trailer, you will need a bigger truck, because if nothing else, you may/will run out of payload, before running out of power with todays trucks. At one time, if a half ton had over 200 ponies with a mid 300 CI sb8, you had a power house. Now adays with V8's having 300hp, you will not run out of HP! yeah at 10K elevation in the rocies you will be down some 90hp, or about 200, try going from 200 down to 140 or so! talk about slow!
So you have to decide if you need a bigger truck, and the why! I needed a 25 series truck to tow a tent trailer, just because as noted above, the wt of my family had a typical 5 or 6 lug 15 series truck at gvwr!
Marty
Reality is, at some point in time......if you go to a bigger trailer, you will need a bigger truck, because if nothing else, you may/will run out of payload, before running out of power with todays trucks. At one time, if a half ton had over 200 ponies with a mid 300 CI sb8, you had a power house. Now adays with V8's having 300hp, you will not run out of HP! yeah at 10K elevation in the rocies you will be down some 90hp, or about 200, try going from 200 down to 140 or so! talk about slow!
So you have to decide if you need a bigger truck, and the why! I needed a 25 series truck to tow a tent trailer, just because as noted above, the wt of my family had a typical 5 or 6 lug 15 series truck at gvwr!
Marty
