Conversation Between kscherzi and rbaldwin
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I appreciate your comprehensive response. It's articulate and actually quite helpful. I've flown airplanes and driven BMWs since college. Now, just retired, I've never owned a truck until five weeks ago. (I guess I've been missing out, right?) So, I'm on a steep learning curve. My Platinum has so many bells/whistles - I love it! I just don't want to be ham strung on what we carry towing the Airstream even though it's just my wife and myself plus my road bike. Your post and all the contributing comments to it through these last weeks have been very educational. Thanks again.
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I'm following your lead. I'm taking my F-150 Platinum to a Cat Scale tomorrow to get a baseline weight on the axels. Then, after we take delivery next week of our new FC 25, I'll go back and see how the BO WDH distributes the weight again to the axels. I've checked your numbers in your extensive post. Your Lariat has a GVWR of 7000. It seems after you did your initial weight check, your GVWR is actually 7325. Your spec's NTE Door Payload was 1440, but your determined it to be 1660. Do I have that right? Is it common for Ford literature and specs to vary as such?
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Hi,
I will use the truck to tow my 2013 27FB International. I thought the power deploying running boards were really neat. I didn't get them because they add weight thus reducing payload, cost an extra $1,000 (I forget the exact amount), and will probably eventually break. According to information from Ford, the power running boards add about 57 lbs as compared to 29 lbs for the standard fixed chrome. I went though a similar thought process between the 18" and 20" wheels. The larger wheels cost more and take away payload.
Now that I have the truck I don't even think about those things anymore.
- Kurt
