Payload is based on exact weights each vehicle. Every option that is on one but not the other will change the payload capacity.They would have to be identically equipped for them to be the same.
Every 2024 Non Max Expedition has the same Payload Sticker
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Are you saying the OP is looking at several Expys that are exactly optioned the same? That's what the OP is asking, why are they (Payload Labels) the same...is Ford 'rounding off' the weights to reduce the number of different labels? Is Ford only producing a few different labels based on major options, like Tow Package? I don't know, but that's why I asked the question.
DieselMonk
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I just looked at my 24 Limited SPP non MAX with HD trailer tow. Durmroll: my sticker sez 1405lbs.
I have looked at around twenty Non Max 2024 Expeditions (4x4) all optioned differently. XLT, Limited, Platinum, and King Ranch. Some have bench seating, others have Captains chairs. As I mentioned already, if the HD tow package is installed the payload is 1405, if it is not installed, the payload is 1358.
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I'd be willing to bet it was cost cutting on Ford's part as mentioned by others. As for the legal question, if the number they put on there is below what the actual payload capacity is for the vehicle there wouldn't be any issue - you aren't exceeding the design limit. Dodge was doing something similar on the Durangos, they all had the same payload regardless of options. Completely dumb IMO.
GixxerJasen
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They probably don't get super granular with the stickers. Base options of something like Max/nonMax, 4x4/2WD, HDTow/NoHDTow and then print off a zillion stickers at whatever the minimum payload would be under that. This way it doesn't matter what options they do or don't have beyond that, the sticker is always safely under the actual limit. Cost cutting? Maybe. I'd go with legal though, this smells of lawyer stuff.
If you look at the link posted above with all the payloads from members, you will see this was not the case in the past. They actually weighed them based on what they contained. There were lots of different payloads, not just a couple. Now they seem to be cheaping out and not doing that anymore.
That is the whole point. Thats why he doesn't understand them being the same. Note that he said all the 2023s are different.
As far as cost, it would be simple if they weigh them as the come off the line to have a computer spit out stickers for that specific VIN and weight.
My other thought is that by doing what some mentioned about taking the lowest common denominator it allows them to show a payload number in the towing guide.
My other thought is that by doing what some mentioned about taking the lowest common denominator it allows them to show a payload number in the towing guide.
Ok...again, you're saying he looked at identically optioned 2024's?
