Hello, I have searched and can't find a post that answers my question.

I'm considering buying a travel trailer and I want to make sure my truck can handle it. I chatted with mopar and they say my truck can only town 5000 lbs at 500 lbs tongue weight. According to my account at dodge.com. I can tow 10,190 lbs and have a payload of 1520 lbs. I can't find any thing about tongue weight and it has a factory installed IV reese hitch.

2016 Ram Big Horn Crew Cab 4x4
5.7 L V8 Hemi MDS WT
3.92 Rear Axle
235 MM Rear Axle
215 MM Front Axle

Can I tow the 5000lbs or 10,190lbs as I thought when I bought the truck?

If I can tow 10.190lbs, how can I determine the specs of my factory reese hitch, tongue weight, and pull weight??

Anyone with a simular truck have experience towing 6-7000 lbs have input on how the truck handles?

The camper my wife likes is a 33 ft 6000lb camper... I wanted to stay smaller but happy wife is happy life!!!!

Thank You,
Mark

 

I am coming up with 10,190. Find the chart I used here.

 

My ‘13 Sport, hemi, 4x2 with 3.55 towed my 25’, 6500lb travel trailer with no problem. Went up 7500’ mountain and temp (engine and trans) never moved off normal.

 

 

 

When i take my 2011 1500 VIN # and plug it in to the decoder under "tools" above it gives me the info below. It breaks down the max towing based on a WD Hitch or Dead Weight. Armed with this information i visited several RV forums/sites, along with some google searches, to get more info on RV towing. Also downloaded a departure/arrival checklist that helped quite a bit since i was new to all this. Dead Weight Hitch - Max Trailer Wt.5000 lbs 5000.0 min 5000.0 maxDead Weight Hitch - Max Tongue Wt.500 lbs 500.0 min 500.0 maxWt Distributing Hitch - Max Trailer Wt.10200, 6700, 8700 lbs 6700.0 min 10200.0 maxWt Distributing Hitch - Max Tongue Wt.1530, 1005, 1305 lbs 1005.0 min 1530.0 max