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Originally Posted by jd50i
You are close to being overweight but within specs depending on the weight of the truck, passengers and cargo along with whatever you put in the trailer besides the RZR can't exceed 8305.
(GCWR) 17,100 - (dry weight) 6895 - (RZR) 1100 - (hitch) 800 = 8305 weight left over for truck, passengers, truck cargo, trailer cargo.
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This is talking towing capacity not payload. You will run out of payload long before you will run out of towing capacity.
I would take some time and go to the dealership and take a look at the yellow sticker in the door jamb on these trucks. It will give you real life numbers as you will not likely see the numbers published. It is kind of like the fictional dry weight of the trailer, not a number you will really ever see. I would borrow your son in laws truck to go get a few weights at a local
cat scaleto help with numbers. Get a weight of truck with loaded trailer, A weight of truck with rzr in bed, and a weight of just truck. Now using a little math you can find out exact numbers you are dealing with. If you weigh the truck and trailer without wdh you can also find out exact tongue weight. Using these numbers you will know: true weight of RZR, true loaded weight of trailer and true tongue weight of trailer. Now you can use these numbers with actual payload numbers (from the dealers lot) on the models of trucks you are looking at and not brochure numbers. This will help you make a better educated decision.