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Dodge Ram 1500 towing capacity

The Dodge-brand Ram 1500 half-ton, before Ram became its own brand for 2010. Body-builder charts list Regular, Quad, Crew and Mega Cab versions with V6 and V8 gasoline engines.

Cited years

0k2.5k5k7.5k10k2000: no cited conventional rating20002001: no cited conventional rating2002: no cited conventional rating20022003: no cited conventional rating2004: 9,200 lb conventional20042005: 9,250 lb conventional+0.1k2006: 9,100 lb conventional−0.2k20062007: 9,100 lb conventional2008: 9,100 lb conventional20082009: no cited conventional rating2009
Highest cited conventional rating per model year, in thousands of pounds. Labels mark the largest changes from the year before, counted only where both years are cited. A dashed tick is a year with no cited rating; it is not zero and is not estimated.
YearHitchCited maximumVersus prior cited yearSource
2004Conventional9,200 lbFirst cited year for this hitchDodge
2005Conventional9,250 lb+50 lb vs 2004Dodge
2006Conventional9,100 lb-150 lb vs 2005Dodge
2007Conventional9,100 lbUnchanged from 2006Dodge
2008Conventional9,100 lbUnchanged from 2007Dodge

Every model year

A filled mark means that year has a cited rating. An empty mark is still a real page: generation, what changed, and an explicit gap instead of a guessed number.

  1. 2009Fourth generation (DS)
  2. 20089,100 lb cited
  3. 20079,100 lb cited
  4. 20069,100 lb cited
  5. 20059,250 lb cited
  6. 20049,200 lb cited
  7. 2003Third generation
  8. 2002Third generation
  9. 2001Second generation
  10. 2000Second generation

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