bennutts

I'm currently looking at buying a 30 ft bumper pull travel trailer the dry weight is 6855lbs. Will my 2012 F150 Ecoboost FX4 be able to handle pulling it?

clarkbre

Maybe.

Tell us more about both your truck and trailer.

joshd472

Power wise, yes.. Stability wise, maybe, I would add air bag. If you're going to be towing that regularly I would step up to a 3/4 ton.

mark waller

Whats your payload? If its less than 1650 I would say no. You will have over 1,000 lbs. of tongue weight and not much room for anything else.

schmenke

Yep, at close to 6,900 lbs dry, unless you have the HDP package you'll be pushing the limits of your truck.

chimmike

6900 dry? count on ~8000lbs loaded with all your junk.
tongue weight at conservative 15%= 1200lbs.

subtract that from the payload, and that is how much weight capacity your truck has for cargo and passengers. Exceed that and you exceed the truck's GVWR. Not good.

bennutts

Its a 2012 Ecoboost 3.73 gears. It does not have the HDP package. I wouldn't generally be towing it very far. I figured I would get a weight distribution hitch as well.

chimmike

you need to know your payload. it's on the door sticker on the driver's side. Gearing doesn't affect payload.

13EBF150

The answer is probably yes ...but.... you won't be all that relaxed towing it if you pull it on long hauls.
Let me give you our experience....
.... We had an '07 31 ft. Cougar TT and was towing it with an '04 6.0 F-250. Wasn't love but wasn't bad. Towed it for 7 years until the 6.0 started to spend more time in the shop than at home. Sold it & ordered a '13 F-150 XLT HD Ecoboost (hellofa truck). Put a little over 5500 miles on the truck with the TT that first year. Pulled it 100 times better than the F-250 but still knew it was back there, especially if there was any breezes and from passing semi's. There were days I was worn out. DW decided we needed to down grade, she was not comfortable riding pulling the TT. Spent 6 months crunching numbers & looking for the perfect match. Found it with the 26sab. That was the best purchase. The truck & 5er are a perfect match. We don't even know it's back there. Semi's and breezes don't effect it.
So... Do your numbers crunching and make sure your truck and that TT match up together.

PS In little over 4 years we've put little over 10,000 miles on the truck & 5er. Mostly in the mountains of Southwest Colorado. That little HD Ecoboost is awesome, but only with the right RV.

smokeywren

Pulling it? No problem. That 3.5L EcoBoost drivetrain is amazing.


BUT... you'll be overloaded over the payload capacity of your F-150. And probably over the rGAWR. And maybe even over the max tongue weight (TW) capacity of your receiver hitch.


My 2012 F-150 EcoBoost Lariat 4x2 has more payload capacity than your 4x4, and I'm overloaded with my TT that weighs less than 5,000 pounds when wet and loaded on the road for an RV trip.


So before you commit to buying more trailer than you can SAFELY tow without exceeding any of the weight limits of your F-150, weigh the wet and loaded F-150 with everybody and everything that will be in it when towing (including a full tank of gas). Subtract the weight of the wet and loaded F-150 from the GVWR of the F-150, and the answer is the payload capacity available for hitch weight. Subtract 100 pounds from that payload capacity available for hitch weight to get payload capacity available for tongue weight (TW). Divide that payload capacity available for TW by 0.13 and the answer is the maximum weight of any tandem-axle travel trailer you can safely tow.


And I'll guarantee you that your answer will be a lot less than the 8,000 pounds wet and loaded weight of the trailer you're wanting.