sideshot

I’m looking to get a travel trailer what are you towing with your runner I have been getting different
Answers as to what it can do GVW is 5510 manual says 7000
Brochure says 5000 o boy lol
Thanks for any help I don’t want to get one that going to kill the truck or me

Woodbert

Yours should be 5,000 lbs/300 lbs TW unless you contacted Toyota and got the "upgrade" model receiver. Supposedly Toyota is/has going to make available one for 7,000 lbs maybe 7,500.

ilocan

I was wondering about this myself. On the Toyota website it list 5000 lbs for the V6 and 7000-7300 for the V8 models for vehicles built after 5/01/03

sideshot

Thanks for the reply. I am bring my truck in on 6/14/03 to have the hitch looked at I have one that wont take a two inch shaft so I shot off an email to the service manager were I bought the truck asking if I will receive the up graded hitch and how they can rate the truck to pull 7000 pounds without changing the GVW 5510 something isn’t Wright even with a Weight distributing hitch.
Ill let you know what happens.

Woodbert

The ball mount not fitting in the receiver is also a known issue. They will replace the receiver for free. Other members on this board have had the same problem. I guess it was a bad batch of class III receivers from the factory.

If you want the class IV factory hitch, this may be a good time to do it.

Good luck. By the way, Do you have a picture of your truck? I haven't seen the Stratosphere Mica except on the Toyota site. Mine is Dark Blue Mica (only in Japan).

Toddski

Be real careful on those numbers....
Two years ago i was in the market for a travel trailer. The trailer i was looking at had a sticker weight of 3,400 lbs.
I had a '97 Toyota 4runner at the time with a 5,000 lb towing limit.
One of the guys that i work with has been RVing for 10 years.

He set me straight

Here is why:

1. The towing limit that auto manufactures post is for a bone stock vehicle with (1) 150lb person and half a tank of gas.
From there you need to subtract from the towing capacity.
For example. (1) gallon of gas = 5.8 lbs. You fill up your tank with another 7 gallons or so is around 40 lbs.

You add another person at 150 lbs.
You add all your gear. Maybe 300 lbs.

Take all this and add it up. Then subtract that from the 5,000 lbs that is advertised.
All of a sudden your at 4,500 lbs or so.

THEN....
You do the opposite for the trailer.
My trailer sticker said it weighed 3,400 lbs off the lot.
That was for a bone stock trailer. Then i added an air conditioner, awning, etc.
Then you add your beding, food and other stuff.
You add water = 8.3 lbs per gallon.

When i put my trailer away for the winter last September i weighed my trailer at a local truck scale. I came in at 4,500 lbs empty.

So i traded in my '97 4runner for a '97 GMC Yukon with a 5.7 liter V8 and 3.73 gears.
I do great towing my trailer but it does slow me down in the mountains.
I have some pictures of my set up here:
http://home.att.net/~fagering4/wsb/h...ome.html-.html

Check out some of the RV forums i have on my site.

Hope this is clear as mud

JGage

Woodbert,
I saw a stratosphere mica in front of the movie theater the other day and it looks exactly like yours in the pictures you have posted. I was never really big on blue vehicles, but it looked really good. If that color would have shown up when I ordered mine, I would have considered getting it.