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Towing capacity #’s don’t add up

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Ud56

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I have a 2013 f150 5.0 L 3:55 gears. Door sticker says gvwr 7350. Cargo 1599. When I go to the ford site for towing capacity it says 7700. Gcvwr 13500. If you take the 13500 minus the 7700 gives you 5800 not 7350. Or if you take 7350 gvwr plus the 7700 towing capacity gives you 15050 not 13500. Am I missing something?
 
I havent done the math but it looks like you can tow 7700 or carry 1599 but not both at the same time.
 
I have a 2013 f150 5.0 L 3:55 gears. Door sticker says gvwr 7350. Cargo 1599. When I go to the ford site for towing capacity it says 7700. Gcvwr 13500. If you take the 13500 minus the 7700 gives you 5800 not 7350. Or if you take 7350 gvwr plus the 7700 towing capacity gives you 15050 not 13500. Am I missing something?
If you had a hay wagon that put no weight on the truck you max tow is 13,500. If you have a trailer or 5er that had tongue weight or pin weight you are limited by the payload number and probably not get close to the max towing. An example would be is a travel trailer that say 6,000 pounds publish tongue weight and 7500-pound max loaded weight (GVWR). That going to be 12% of the actual weight say you load it to 7,000 pounds or 840 pounds so you would have 759 pounds left over for stuff and people in the truck. Remember 12% is an average my Airstream was 17% of the loaded weight. A 5er will run around 22% so a 8000 pound 5er would be about 1760 pound plus everything in the truck you b e way overweight.

Here is good site to play with what you can and can't tow.
 
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