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I've been investigating my towing set up and the facts are:
1. The GCVWR formy truck is 22,000 lbs
2. My Chev owners manual tells me that I can pull up to a 13,000 lb 5th wheel with a max pin weight of upto 3,500 lbs
3. The sticker on the inside of my front door post on the chev says my max cargo and passanger capacity is 2,200 lbs (tire rating sticker)
4. I looked up the actual max loading for my tires on the Bridgestone website (and confirmed with the writing right on the tires), max load is 3,195 lbs
5. My trailer dry weight is ~9,600 lbs
6. The published dry pin weight for the trailer is 2,136 lbs
7. My total truck weight is 7,562 lbs (no trailer but passangers, 5th wheel hitch and full fuel tank included)
8. The truck front axel weight is 4,453 lbs (no trailer but passangers, 5th wheel hitch and full fuel tank included)
9. The truckrear axel weight is 3,109 lbs (no trailer but passangers, 5th wheel hitch and full fuel tank included
My conclusions are:
Everything seems OK except I am over the max cargo and passenger capacity by ~500 lbs based on the tire rating sticker. What I don’t understand is: the max tire capacity for the rear of the truck is 3,195 lbs/tire x 2 tires = 6,390 lbs. When I add the unloaded rear weight of the truck to the pin weight I get 3,109 lbs + 2,136 lbs = 5,245 lbs. I should still have 1,145 lbs of capacity on the rear tires. (Some of this will be used up by the cargo in the trailer.)
I’ve looked into tire load capacities on the internet and 3,195 seems to be max for 17� tires and I find it hard to believe they equipped the truck with tires that are unsuitable for the truck.
I’m not sure what I am missing here, is the tire capacity sticker wrong?