Habu987
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I've been browsing the HD forum for a while (been on the 1500 forum for a long time), finally decided to post.
I've got the 1500 that's in my sig, plan to keep it for at least another year or two. When I got it in 2018, I had a typical light duty use case--wife and kids, Home Depot runs, towing a rental 3500# camper a few times a year, yada yada yada. Since then, my use case has changed.
Pre-covid throwing 2020 into chaos, I was on schedule to start traveling all up and down the east coast with separate trips to Chicago and Houston/Austin for 8-12 conventions per year plus customer deliveries within a ~300 mile radius, all while bumper towing an enclosed cargo trailer that's anywhere from 5000-10000# and 12-18'. Given the paltry payload and towing capacities I've got on my truck (1269# and 7269#, respectively), I was planning to rent a HD for each trip, but now I'm thinking about just buying a HD in the next year or two.
With the BIG caveat that I haven't actually driven a HD yet, and knowing full well that the 6.4 would suit my projected needs just fine, I like the idea of the 6.7. I've read up on the differences between the 2500 and 3500 and am leaning towards a 3500 specifically for payload reasons. I would want to spec a 2500/3500 out with pretty much the exact same options that I have now, and when I searched for a 6.7 SRW SB 2500 specced out the same, payload was a miserly 1600-1900# and change depending on crew cab or mega cab. 3500s were well over 3000#. Given that some of my convention trips will likely be 2-4 people in the cab plus several hundred pounds of gear in the Ramboxes and bed, along with the trailer weight, that makes the 2500 just about as useless for my payload use case as the 1500.
So, all that said, on paper I'm likely looking at a SRW SB CC/MC 3500 with the 6.7. The added cost of the 6.7 over the 6.4 is a non-issue, so I'm not worried about the upfront or ongoing/maintenance costs. I am concerned a bit by the DD role, so I'll likely hold off on making a go/no-go decision till the cab redesign, since I can use all the space I have in the 1500 CC, and see if there are any drivability changes with the updated body whenever that actually comes out, hopefully model year 2022/2023.
On paper, the jump from 1500 to 3500 seems like it makes sense to me, but I'd appreciate any advice y'all might have!
ETA: I'm test driving a 3500 CC SRW LB HO 6.7 Big Horn later this week, just so I can see what the drivability is like and actually have an understanding of what DD would be like.
I've got the 1500 that's in my sig, plan to keep it for at least another year or two. When I got it in 2018, I had a typical light duty use case--wife and kids, Home Depot runs, towing a rental 3500# camper a few times a year, yada yada yada. Since then, my use case has changed.
Pre-covid throwing 2020 into chaos, I was on schedule to start traveling all up and down the east coast with separate trips to Chicago and Houston/Austin for 8-12 conventions per year plus customer deliveries within a ~300 mile radius, all while bumper towing an enclosed cargo trailer that's anywhere from 5000-10000# and 12-18'. Given the paltry payload and towing capacities I've got on my truck (1269# and 7269#, respectively), I was planning to rent a HD for each trip, but now I'm thinking about just buying a HD in the next year or two.
With the BIG caveat that I haven't actually driven a HD yet, and knowing full well that the 6.4 would suit my projected needs just fine, I like the idea of the 6.7. I've read up on the differences between the 2500 and 3500 and am leaning towards a 3500 specifically for payload reasons. I would want to spec a 2500/3500 out with pretty much the exact same options that I have now, and when I searched for a 6.7 SRW SB 2500 specced out the same, payload was a miserly 1600-1900# and change depending on crew cab or mega cab. 3500s were well over 3000#. Given that some of my convention trips will likely be 2-4 people in the cab plus several hundred pounds of gear in the Ramboxes and bed, along with the trailer weight, that makes the 2500 just about as useless for my payload use case as the 1500.
So, all that said, on paper I'm likely looking at a SRW SB CC/MC 3500 with the 6.7. The added cost of the 6.7 over the 6.4 is a non-issue, so I'm not worried about the upfront or ongoing/maintenance costs. I am concerned a bit by the DD role, so I'll likely hold off on making a go/no-go decision till the cab redesign, since I can use all the space I have in the 1500 CC, and see if there are any drivability changes with the updated body whenever that actually comes out, hopefully model year 2022/2023.
On paper, the jump from 1500 to 3500 seems like it makes sense to me, but I'd appreciate any advice y'all might have!
ETA: I'm test driving a 3500 CC SRW LB HO 6.7 Big Horn later this week, just so I can see what the drivability is like and actually have an understanding of what DD would be like.
