Background
Me...new to trucks. Prior pulled a tent trailer with a '04 Suburban
Required for....pulling a travel trailer for miles/months at a time

Looking to order:
F250
SRW
2wd
Gas (not going Diesel)
SuperCab
6.5'Bed
Camper pkg
Chrome pkg
Lariat Value pkg
Mud flaps Front
Bedliner.........maybe go with Line X?
Rear Wheel well liner
Adaptive Steering.....??? do I need this?
Roof marker lights. Hey why not

Any real world advice for me?

 

How heavy is the trailer? It seems most people are happier with the 4.30 gear ratio. If your getting 4wd I would get the e-locker because its not that much money.

 

Have you looked into getting a bad rug instead of the spray-in liner? I have the Ford spray-in liner and it is slick. Cant put anything next to the tailgate and have it stay there. A friend has the bed rug and hasn't had any problem what so ever with it.... I wish I went that route on mine now.
Bed Rug at AutoAnything - Best Price & Reviews

 

yes get the 4.10 or 4.30 gears or reconsider getting the diesel, you won't regret it. twice the power, just a quiet as gas, better fuel milage, cheaper fuel cost per gallon and higher resale value.

I love my adaptive cruise control. Its a bit price and a bit lazy but it was nice being able to drive 60 miles from the dealership to the home on the highway in moderate traffic and never touch the gas pedal. its pretty freakin cool.

 

Diesel is JUST $6,000 option...that's a lot of gas.
Nope

 

​​​​​​​suggestion: get the bed rug and put it over the slick bedliner. Voila, problem solved, and my work is done here.

 

$8500 msrp option actually.

 

I'd get 4.30 diff and front wheelwell liners.
If you live where they salt the roads get it Krowned.

 

I remember back in the mid 2000s a friend of mine Bought a Dodge Hemi, because "it was more than enough truck to pull his travel trailer" which he drove down from Alaska to haul back up there. Not long after his trip back up the ALCAN after buying his travel trailer, he went and traded his truck in for a Cummins and never looked back. With that being said, I do believe the 6.2L Gas engine is a much better engine than the HEMI. You wont be disappointed.

 

Make sure the 250 will have the payload to handle the hitch weight plus cargo plus passengers and a little room to spare. It's the payload that is always the limiting factor for towing, not the rated tow capacity. And ditto on the 4.30 gears.

 

Bed Rug...Mmmmmm

DYI....how easy is this?

 

oh its easy, you just need a polycarbonate compound and heat it up to molten liquid then buy a machine to spin it into fine thread and then weave it together to create a rug like sheet and cut it to size and use a little spray adhesive and a six pack of beer and BAMM you're done son.

I'm sure someone much smarter than me has a better idea

 

this is true!

 

I would spend the extra $3k and get a 4x4. It will be worth $6k more in resale value. And I would not get the chrome package, it is over-priced.

 

Depending on what type of camping you like to do, the 4x4 might be nice. I've only really needed 4wd twice in my life, but just one of those times paid for it, the second was just icing.

I've also seen quite a few times guys with 2wd trucks that can't get their trailers out after/during a storm in camp grounds and need the help of a 4x4 to get that extra grip. Watched a father/son once that couldn't get their trailer out with both their 2wd trucks, one on front, one on back of trailer. We were camping next to them enjoying the show and they finally asked my brother to pull them out with his 4x4. He put it in 4l and basically idled back with no issue.