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Originally Posted by jrb988
I had a couple of my numbers wrong. My payload is actually 2190 and max tow is 12450. Not much difference but still different. Thanks for the responses but it still didn't answer my question of do you have to include weight of full tanks. Because according to a 5th wheel weight calculator I'm approximately 50 lbs over on payload and 50 over on GCWR. Is 50 lbs enough to hurt the tv or be a danger on the road?
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Your RAM is a 2011 model. We all consider our vehicle maintenance as "always the best because I see to it myself".... That said, your truck is already 8 years old, has been subjected to road conditions that don't make for "museum quality care". So, when you consider the "new truck ratings" and the "current truck conditions" they aren't going to be the same. How much "wear degradation" has your truck suffered? I can't tell you, but I can assure you that it's not "in new condition throughout the vehicle". Whether it's rivets that hold the chassis together, welds that have been subjected to flexing, brake lines/wheel cylinders/master cylinder use, corrosion or fluid contamination, steering component wear, driveline "slop" from U-joints and gear wear, shock wear, spring flexion/metal fatigue... The list goes on and on.
Your truck was rated with the numbers you posted when it was new. It's no longer new, and it's not going to perform as well as it did then.
Improvements? Yeah, they help, but they don't over-ride everything that's subjected to wear or fatigue.
So, IMHO, pushing a 8 or 9 year old vehicle to the "top of the ratings" and expecting performance to be "like when it was new" is just not going to happen.
Sure, you may "get away with it" for a while, but if (when) the slop bucket tips, will the truck perform "like it did in 2011?????
I wouldn't push a vehicle that old to "new vehicle specs. YMMV