[tillery444]

Originally Posted by pciley

The only differences are, as stated, the gearing and the trans temp GUAGE (providing you have installed your own hitch). You still have the trans temp cooler. The gearing helps keep your truck in the power band, amongst other things I'm sure someone will point out, so presumably if you had some power mods, you could tow just as much.

I have exceeded the towing rating for my XE, towed over 8k lbs several times and never had a problem. Just dropped into 4th as per the manual. I have a couple minor power mods though, so probably helped a little.

I honestly think the # ratings are more of an incentive to get the BT package. The gearing is not that different, after all. It is not significant enough to warrant a 3000# increase in towing capacity, IMO.

Out here it is mostly flat though, a few grades on the way to the desert, nothing too bad. I can see the lower gears maybe making a bigger difference towing up a mountain or something like that.

pciley,


Thanks, we have similar mods, I have the magnaflow catback & AirRaid intake so I could probably expect similar resulults!

Tillery444