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Originally Posted by Spyder73
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Your kidding right? You never saw the commercials with a Tundra pulling the space shuttle?
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I got the SR5 Offroad edition - Has a 5.7 liter V8 iForce engine in it. The computer tells me my fuel economy is only a little over 12 MPG currently, so the thing is a gas guzzler, but I would imagine it can pull just about anything.
Its fairly modified... The truck is black, so I plasti dipped all my emblems black + front bumper + grille + back bumper (murdered out), added a black tool box on the back, black frontier brush guard, full length black nerf bars (step up to get in truck), 3 inch lift, black rims, 34’ all terrain tires, air bag suspension, towing package... and after work today I am buying some KC lights to attach to the brush guard (will look sick). I’ll post some pictures after I wash it this weekend, I don’t have any with the tool box and brush guard attached.
It's a 2015 and has about 15,000 miles on it. 1 previous owner and they had a 5th wheel in the bed, but it is no longer there. Truck is a beast - I call it Drogo - roommate calls it The General. |
I'm not hacking on toys, I use to have one, a mini, looong ago when they were all the rage. I could hitch a small trailer to it, though not through anything tough, not like my later 4x4 could do. If it fits your needs then that's a win.
If they had 5th wheel hardware on it, likely they found out that it's a pain to pull in a toy close to the limit, so sold/traded up. Toy has a ~10k limit, while most good 5ths are close to that, some over. Chev/GMC is at 16k, will easily pull 90% of 5ths up, including modest tractor loads.
Here's a chart. And tons of youtube pulling tests. Example: it couldn't pull
one of these. Even the Chev/GMC would struggle a bit if it were fully loaded. But just depends on intended use, and sounds like good use for a general work truck.
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