ChooChooSnakeMan
Seaman
- Joined
- Dec 11, 2023
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Hello Everyone, I just got a new 2024 F150 5.0 super crew with the FX4 package. Love the truck. I traded in my 2012 F150 5.0 2 wheel drive truck. I wanted another 5.0 because my 2012 had 185,000 miles on it and it was still running great. My comment / question concerns a little disappointment I discovered after picking up my truck. I made sure and ask the salesman what the tow limits were before purchase and he said for conventional towing my limit was 9,300 lbs. My boat and trailer weighs 7,400 lbs so I thought I am more than good to go. Well going through some "fine print" on Ford's towing chart for 2024 I discovered that my truck is only allowed to tow 5,000 lbs with the included class 4 hitch. To tow more than 5,000 up to the truck tow rating requires a weight distributing hitch!!! I can't use such a hitch on a boat with surge brakes (or at least that's what I think). I'm confident my new truck will tow my boat with no problem. My 2012 was rated to tow only 8,000 lbs and was 2 wheel drive and it towed the boat the short distances I usually tow it with no problem so the new truck should be even better. However I think it stinks that Ford and other manufacturers of 1/2 ton trucks have the restriction about tow weights without a weight distributing hitch. They all brag about the tow limits without openly in my opinion talking about this limitation. The limit isn't the class 4 hitch because class 4 is rated to at least 10,000 lbs. I don't have an excessive tongue weight with my tandem axle trailer as the load is very well spread out. I'd estimate my tongue weight to be right at 500 lbs, certainly not more than 750 lbs. When hooked up the boat and trailer didn't squat my 2012 truck down very much at all. Any of you who tow with a 1/2 ton truck, does this concern you from a liability standpoint if God forbid you were in an accident while towing your boat? I don't trust accident lawyers and I can just hear them now, "Well why were you towing that 7,400 lb load with your truck when the manufacturer says not to exceed 5,000 lbs.!