Beerbrewer
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My wife and I have long talked about buying and RV and touring this great country of ours but neither of knows a lot about RVing. So please forgive me for asking some stupid questions.
Right now we are interested mostly in Travel Trailers. Just to be safe we are going to rent one first and take a short trip, just to make sure RVing works for us. Frankly it would surprise both of us if we didn't take to it, but better safe than sorry. Most of the rental places that I've found thus far don't rent travel trailers, just coaches and pop-ups. Does anyone know of good travel trailer rental place on the east coast (Mid Atlantic region)?
Assuming the trial RV experience goes well, we'll be in the market for a used trailer. Since we a new to RVing and because our tow vehicle is older, we thought that we shouldn't invest in a new trailer just yet. As of right now we are planning to use our 2006 Toyota Tundra as our tow vehicle. I know the Truck is 12 years old, but it only has 55,000 miles on it and its never given me any trouble. According to the manual my Tundra can tow 12,000 lbs total (trailer + cargo + truck). So my truck weighs 5200 lbs with me, my wife and a full tank of fuel, so that leaves 6800 lbs for a trailer and cargo. I heard that the tongue weight also effects towing capacity, is that true? I was told that if a trailer had a 500 Lb tongue weight that my towing capacity would be reduced to 6300 lbs. Is this true? So to be safe I was thinking that my maximum trailer Gross Vehicle Weight Rating should NOT be greater than 5000 lbs. Which means we'd be looking a a trailer in the 3000 to 4000 weight range. Am I on the right track?
My truck has 271 HP and it has a 128.3 in wheelbase? Based upon my trucks wheelbase what is the maximum length trailer that we should looks at.
Lastly, where is good place one the East Coast to look at used trailers? If we get into RVing more, as I suspect that we will, we'd probably upgrade the truck and trailer.
Right now we are interested mostly in Travel Trailers. Just to be safe we are going to rent one first and take a short trip, just to make sure RVing works for us. Frankly it would surprise both of us if we didn't take to it, but better safe than sorry. Most of the rental places that I've found thus far don't rent travel trailers, just coaches and pop-ups. Does anyone know of good travel trailer rental place on the east coast (Mid Atlantic region)?
Assuming the trial RV experience goes well, we'll be in the market for a used trailer. Since we a new to RVing and because our tow vehicle is older, we thought that we shouldn't invest in a new trailer just yet. As of right now we are planning to use our 2006 Toyota Tundra as our tow vehicle. I know the Truck is 12 years old, but it only has 55,000 miles on it and its never given me any trouble. According to the manual my Tundra can tow 12,000 lbs total (trailer + cargo + truck). So my truck weighs 5200 lbs with me, my wife and a full tank of fuel, so that leaves 6800 lbs for a trailer and cargo. I heard that the tongue weight also effects towing capacity, is that true? I was told that if a trailer had a 500 Lb tongue weight that my towing capacity would be reduced to 6300 lbs. Is this true? So to be safe I was thinking that my maximum trailer Gross Vehicle Weight Rating should NOT be greater than 5000 lbs. Which means we'd be looking a a trailer in the 3000 to 4000 weight range. Am I on the right track?
My truck has 271 HP and it has a 128.3 in wheelbase? Based upon my trucks wheelbase what is the maximum length trailer that we should looks at.
Lastly, where is good place one the East Coast to look at used trailers? If we get into RVing more, as I suspect that we will, we'd probably upgrade the truck and trailer.