tony montana

Looking at buying a camper. It's a 2012 avenger bh26 and weighs 5100 pounds. My truck is a 2012 f150 screw ecoboost 3.31 rear 4wd and does not have max tow. I don't plan to load the camper or truck with a ton more weight. Just prob plan on camping 2 or 3 days at the most. Am I getting close on weight for my truck or should I look at a smaller camper

Robob

With that amount of weight you should be fine, i believe your gross combined vehicle weight without tow package is roughly 8800-9800lbs depending on wheelbase etc.
so you should be fine weight wise, the only other thing that can be handy with tow behind campers is the anti-sway bars to help reduce the effect of wind while towing at highway speeds.

Also be sure to get a half-way decent trailer brake controller if you don't have the integrated one in the dash, without using trailer brakes you will cook the trucks brakes in no time on top of not being very safe if you had to stop fast

tony montana

I looked in the door jamb on my truck and thought it said 7200 pounds but I don't know enough about all those ratings. My truck does not have a trailer brake control but the camper dealership is installing one for me. I also have the 5.5 foot bed if it makes a difference

packplantpath

Find out the gvwr of the trailer and the payload on the truck for sticker. If the trailer gvwr is under 7000 and payload is over 1500 you should be OK. Should. Ymmv

tony montana

Ok looked on the window sticker it says 7200 gvwr package. That's kind of disappointing if it will only tow that much

packplantpath

7200 is the max weight allowed for truck plus payload, including trailer tongue weight. Not the max towing weight.

Your tow reading will be high enough for the trailer. But your axle weight reading and payload may not. Look again at the yellow sticker on the for for a payload # like the sticker below. The truck this came from has 1863 lbs payload from factory before any additional stuff was added like pustule, luggage, toolbox, bedliner, mud flaps, etc.

As long as your truck has 1500 lbs or more you should be OK with this trailer if the trailer gvwr (not dry weight, gvwr) is 7000 lbs or less.

But you will be very close to the maximums



So if the truck is 7200gvwr, and the payload is 1500, your truck would weigh 5700 lbs and you can add any weight up to 1500 lbs to the truck and be under limits

AKeefe

That's not your tow capacity it's the GVWR it's basically the heaviest the truck can weigh with maximum cargo. Example the truck probably weighs around 5500 pounds so you're payload would be around 1700 pounds . 5500 truck + 1700 cargo = 7200 pounds. Your tow capacity should be over 9000 lbs. it's included in your GCWR gross combined weight rating Is maximum weight of truck cargo and trailer it should be somewhere in the neighborhood of 15000 lbs. so you need to check the sticker for your GCWR and subtract your GVWR from that for your tow capacity.

packplantpath

Looks like that trailer is 7500lbs gvwr. You will be very close to the limits and likely over unless you have 1700 payload unless you travel very light.

CaSCrew11

That's not exactly what that means. That GVWR is simply that. It's the gross vehicle weight rating. This means that your truck, completely loaded up with let's say, you and spouse, fuel, luggage, pin weight from your trailer, (everything combined over your two axles)can not exceed 7200lbs. I believe your truck can tow, 8100lbs. Also, I'm fairly positive your GCWR, for both truck and camper is 14,000 lbs max according to the 2012 brochure. If you do the math, something is going to be exceeded before the other. There's tons of information on this topic on the RV forums and some here in the towing section. Look on the door jamb of your truck and look at your payload. That'll tell you from the factory, with all your add ons that may have come from the factory, how much extra weight, can be loaded on your truck, including pin weight. If you've added any extra aftermarket stuff, start subtracting available payload, from that number on the door jamb. It's a big yellow sticker saying something to the effect of 'you and your passengers can not exceed xxxx weight'. The only real way to know what you can tow is load up everything besides the trailer, and hit the scales. Then again with the trailer. That's the only true way of knowing whether or not you can tow whatever it is your heart desires. :-) Sorry for the long rant, but I quickly wanted to give you a bit of food for thought is all. Edit: damn those post came quick since my phone updated. Those all would've saved me the rant. Sorry. But still, look at all the info. Many of it is worth it's weight in gold when looking at trailers to buy.

tony montana