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Dave:
I'm afraid what we have here is yet another example of auto manufacturers' failure to tell us about the actual weights of various options and features on their trucks, leaving us to guess what will be the actual weight, and actual payload capacity, of the trucks we order.
The 2006 Chevy brochure you cite lists the payload for the 2500 4x4 CC LB SRW as 3163#, 415# less than the 3578# payload they list for the 3500 model you reference. That does not include the weight to be deducted for the diesel engine, Allison transmission, and the other standard and trailering options we all end up getting. And of course Chevy doesn't tell us what are the weights of those options and features or how big an effect they will have on payload. I assumed we were talking about an actual payload of several hundred pounds less than the brochure payload, but not almost 900# difference. But if you compare the brochure payload of 3163# for the 2500 CC LB 4x4 SRW with the actual payload of 2272# on the sticker on the 2500 I saw yesterday, that's a difference of 891#. That's what shocked me.
I'm hoping that a big part of that difference is that the actual payload sticker on the truck includes a deduction of 150# for the driver and 283# for a full fuel tank. Does anyone know for sure?????
As for your suggestion that I get the Chevy 3500 rather than the 2500, I'd certainly for myself go with the 3500 over the 2500--just my personal choice due to my hangup on weights and capacities. The only reason I even mentioned the 2500 in my post last night is that was the only diesel 4x4 CC SRW model my dealer had on the lot. That's why I posted my inquiry to see if anyone has looked at the "tire sticker" on a 3500 CC LB SRW 4x4 diesel and can tell me what the actual payload listed there really is. Otherwise, since the brochure payloads of the 2500 and 3500 are only 415# apart, I'd have to assume the tire sticker number for the 3500 version of this truck is at most only 415# higher, which would only be 2687#--a number so low I can't believe it's true. But why don't the manufacturers tell us what's going on instead of making us guess like this?
David and Jo-Anna Kikel
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