@@HKer_In_Canada TBH, American trucks has better performance and history than Japanese trucks.
@HKer_In_Canada2 ай бұрын
身邊有朋友揸F150,都唔係無鑊氣...暫時仍然觀望😅
@uavcalgary11392 ай бұрын
i used to have a F150 heavy duty, it does its job but reliability sucks. By the time it reach 160k, rear seals leaks, and can barely get up Stony Trail (Southbound going up Beacon Hill). Also, american truck overrated their towing capacity, the way they rate their towing capacity is based on half tank gas, 0 passenger while Toyota tested it with real world facts like having passengers, loaded up the truck bed and full tank of gas. I was looking for 3/4 ton chevy but ended up with a 2nd gen Tundra towing my 28' trailer, my truck is 210k and it's going strong. Only thing i don't like is the small gas tank, glad to hear the new Tundra has a bigger gas tank than the older ones. Also watch out for trailer weight, what RV dealer posted is dry weight (not including water, luggage, batteries, propane tank), by the time you added all these, the posted weight of 3000 become 4000. My 2 cents and 15 years of trailer towing experience.
@TheKG8888Ай бұрын
TBH all companies overrate their towing capacity. I've been towing trailers, boats, etc... for many years. A good rule of thumb for safety and comfortable towing is your towing weight should not be over 60% of your truck towing capacity.
@grazy1012 ай бұрын
We love watching your channel. However, you are providing wrong information on how to safely tow a trailer. All you mention was towing capacity. You failed to mentioned the most important thing. The payload of your truck and tongue weight of your trailer. This greatly affects your ability to tow. Weight distribution hitch and anti-sway bars are also something you can add. Please research payloads and learn about it before producing another video on towing a trailer.
@HKer_In_Canada2 ай бұрын
When it comes to towing safely, there are many many factors involved. We are in no way professionals and so are the vast majority of our viewers. Going too technical could be very intimidating for people who are interested in getting into the RV world. Our videos have always been providing intro to the topics, if interested, viewers have to do their own research. We do have stabilizing hitch and plan our weight distribution, we just don’t want this video to be too long and deep. Speaking of payload, our model is a travel trailer so towing capacity is more important. If you’re towing a fifth-wheel when the unit is directly adding weight onto the truck bed, certainly payload is a huge factor to consider. We do our research based on our rig and experience, we can’t possibly do research for all trailer and vehicle styles.
@9al9al2 ай бұрын
Agreed!! I don't think anyone will take your videos as professional advice. We (retired HK couple moved to US 20+ years ago) bought our 16x 7.5 ft enclosed trailer in 2019. In about one year time, we converted it to a travel trailer with full bath/kitchen, grey/black/fresh water tanks, Electric water heater, 500W solar and a DIY 280AH LiFePO4 battery. We were lucky that we had a TUNDRA TRP PRO day one and been towing the trailer just fine. Since then, we have been traveling with it with countless memorial moments in yellow stone, Rockies/Jasper/Banff, PEI, Alcan Highway and Alaska. Canada has much better national park system than anything similar in US. Maybe due to the same reason, US's private campgrounds are relatively better in general than those in Canada. To really experience the beauties of both countries, RV is perfect and sometime a must-have!! Thanks for your sharing and most lovely is listening to those familiar topics in HK Cantonese. Keep going!!
@uavcalgary11392 ай бұрын
@@9al9al i echo what you said about Tundra, too bad they don't make V8 anymore. My retirement plan is to travel across North America (US and Canada) .. glad you did all the upgrade to your trailer and modified it. @HK-er_in_Canada, welcome to Calgary and just stumbled on your video and love them, espeically it's in my native language Cantonese.