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Message: [QUOTE="Vader's Fury, post: 409663, member: 473"] I would not worry about the extra length. It is not as bad as you seem to think it is. I am speaking from personal experience. I have an F-450 that I drive for work as my service truck and it has a 200" wheelbase. It is also a drw. Don't get me wrong, it does take a different aproach to drive it, but once you get used to it you will not notice it as much. It is harder to park than my crew cab (will not fit in a single parking space, have to pull through 2) but not so much that I can not use it to go to walmart, lowe's, home depot, etc. I daily drive this truck and over the last 3 years have put over 100k miles on the truck. No fenders bent or hitting anything so far (knock on wood). I also pull a trailer a few times a month with the truck. Anything from deck over 16-25' flatbeds to 24' enclosed wells cargo trailers. No fifth wheel trailers, but I believe it is easier to drive with a 5th than a pull behind trailer. (I have a 30' 5th and had a 40' previously) The only time I would see the added length being a problem would be when you are trying to park the camper at a camp ground. I would assume that you are usually reserving pull through camping sites but know that is not always possible. I would say if you had to back into a camp site and the roadway was not very wide that it could then become an issue. If I was you I would go with the full door extention and not the extended cab for a number of reasons. 1. As explained above, I don't believe that the added length of the wheel base will affect your driving as much as you fear. 2. The longer wheel base might help with the ride of the truck as the front end will have more time to recover from whatever has upset the suspension before the rear will have to deal with it. 3. I have an extended cab truck and the back seat is bout useless except for carrying cargo and tools. While there is a seat back there, watching a full grown adult fit back there for any length of time is quite comical. (I stuffed a buddy of mine back there after having to pick him up from a bar late one night for about 45 mins) Just my .02 [/QUOTE]