I have a 2002 F250 crew cab 4x4 PS. The hitch on it is a Ford V-5 hitch. The specs on the hitch says 12,500lbs gross trailer weight, weight distrubiting. 5000lbs gross trailer weight, weight carrying.
I may need to tow a buddies 42' Tiger about 60 miles one time. Weighing in about 12,000lbs with trailer.
My concern is the factory hitch.


Thanks,
Cris

Well your way over because you cannot do distributing with surge brakes so you're at more than twice the rated limit.

You will need to buy a new hitch, trust me I just went thru the same thing witha F-350.....BZ

The factory hitch is a POS.

Get a Reese or Putnam.

Wannabe

thanks for all the input. I thought I was going to have to upgrade it. I found a Putnam XDR locally, 15000lb weight carrying hitch for $160.

Cris

???? you mean my 03 F250 hitch is NG for my Formula311? (7,400+1,500=8,900lbs)

Sad isn't it.
Ford should be ashamed of it's self for putting those Class 3 POS's on Super Duties......mine has to be changed too.... .
Will pay more attention next time.

i swapped mine out the day after i got it.... somewhere there is a huge pile of ford hitches....

My ford deal agreed to swap it before I took delivery.

I just had one put on 2 weeks ago. its 12k regular 14k weight distributing. Its a Curt, $230 installed.

Remember, you also need a new ball and hitch thing the ball goes in. those are 5 or 6k too.

The balls they had were either 10k or 30k, so i got the 30k.