Magus2727
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- City, State
- Utah
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 2018, Explorer Sport
Why rely on wikis when we can go right to the CFR (40 CFR 86.1803-01 - Definitions and 40 CFR 86.1832-01 - Optional equipment and air conditioning for test vehicles.) Definition is "Curb weight means the actual or the manufacturer's estimated weight of the vehicle in operational status with all standard equipment, and weight of fuel at nominal tank capacity..." Note the word "estimated". I think the highest actual weight I saw was with 401A and moonroof, but when you want to play around at the limits, you have to confirm weight, not assume.
Conventional wisdom is to spec/purchase your trailer first and then spec/purchase a vehicle that can tow it (and leave yourself some margin for error as peter said, many like to use the 80% rule). Anyway, according to Ford, you are good to go up to the numbers they provided. I'm sure you can find more than a few people that will recommend royal purple or similar oil and trans fluid, probably even a larger cooler as I'm sure your trans temps are going to be high. But, you have a 2018 vehicle under warranty. Why would you want to change something and risk a potential warranty issue? I would probably just weigh the vehicle and trailer periodically and keep the receipts to prove I was within the limits in case something ever happened to the vehicle. You can add a gauge or just get trans temp info from scan tools/scan tool apps and a bluetooth OBD dongle.
Thanks. I have the extended sunroof so likely at the higher side of things. The vehicle was bought with the very high hopes that it could work this way because I don't need a 5th vehicle to add to my ever growing list.
It is my understanding that voiding warranty would void warranty only if the damage occurred due to that part. If you put on an exhaust and the water pump fails well the exhaust would not have done anything for that. Add a catch can and the Alternator goes out, we'll those are not related. Add a aftermarket trans cooler and the turbo goes bad. Still would be under warranty. But say change the down pipe and the turbo goes, or swap out for larger wheels and the wheel bearing or steering rack fail, or put a 3bar boost sensor and a tune and the motor blows up kind of things void the warranty. Is this not true?
They do say standard options. So the Sport model likely has some additional features that are over standard? But each trim level should be measured with stadard for their own unique curb weights?