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Good advice.Here are a few things to keep in mind.
1. Travel trailers are the worst thing to tow, because these have high cabinets, top mounted air conditioners. shifting dishes and coolers, sloshing water tanks, lopsided pop outs and a huge front facing wind stopper. the total weight and length is almost entirely irrelevant (tounge weight is relevant obviously).
2. trucks with 0 miles are super solid and will out tow trucks with 100k.
3. Stock travel trailer tires generally suck something awful.
In my opinion length is way less important than height and width.
crawl under the trailer and look at where the white tank is on several trailers and get an idea of how it will affect your load.
be mindful of how you load your trailer, dont put 50 cans of food in the upper cabinets. get paper plates instead of heaver washable solid plates. store most stuff in the lower cabinets. think about what all your going to put in it, how carefully you will load it each time.
tow with your water tank full or empty not half.
im sure if you research trailer specifics you will have a very enjoyable towing experience with your f150 no matter what bumper pull trailer you buy.
lots of trailers cannot be optimized enough, this is where WDH come into play. if that doesn't work truck mods. but focus on getting the right trailer for what you plan to do with it.
Why do you say the factory tires suck? I've never really thought about them. How does changing them affect towing?
I never thought to look at where our fresh tank was located when we bought the trailer a few year ago. But, I believe we are fortunate that it's located just ahead of the axles. I will pay attention to where it's located on our next trailer before purchase. (We always tow with it full as not all locations have fresh water on site to fill our tank)
I 2nd the paper plates and we use solo cups as well. - added bonus, it makes after dinner clean up easier too. Plus you can buy solo shot glasses too..... On that note:
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