Vehicle tare weights?

The Tare weight of a motorised vehicle is normally dry except for 10 litres of fuel and obviously radiator full as well so it can be driven to scales..

Toyotas are weighed that way

The Kerb weight is normally with fuel tank full.

A caravans Tare is supposed to be dry weight as exiting the factory No water at all, no gas bottles.

If hasnt got an awning or Aircon at that point they will come out of payload if fitted later.

I am about to have a GVM upgrade on my D-Max by ARB. They tell me they do not weigh the vehicle just add, in my case 300 kg's, to its GVM. At the end of the day you must keep within the GVM so get it weighed when in touring mode with a full tank. What it weighs empty at the end means nothing when pulled over and checked.

Ya need to be realy carfull with the various published weights.
Pretty much nothing the manufacturer publishes will have the fuel tanks full ...... unless it specifically states as such.

Cant remember the detail but Kerb weight is usually with the fuel tank only partly full. .. various nomonated amounts of fuel in the tank.

When it comes to station waggons...... you realy do not have much to play with so you can not affort to trust anything you have not proven yourself....... there are so many people driving 4wd station waggons around blissfully unaware that they are overloaded.

Pretty much if you brim the tanks and put 4 typical adults and their swags in most station waggons you have enought spare payload to but a slab and an esky of food in the back before ya load alowance is busted ..... that is before you fit barwork, roof racks and accessories.

Oh and don't forget you permissable axle loadings.

One other trap for young players is ball weight ........ even if you have 300KG of spare GVM and otherwise well loaded ...... putting 300KG on the ball can put you well over the rear axle loading ...duse to the leverage omposed by the overhang.

Sigmund you are wise t ask this question ..... most do not have the forethaught.

OH and when it comes to caravans and worst of all slide on campers ..... do not believe what is written on the plate ...... trust only what you weigh.

cheers

Like other after market accessory suppliers ARB offer a GVM upgrade. From my current experience in this exercise with a brand new BT 50 the GVM upgrade is conditional on replacing the suspension with their product, cost for the BT 50 is approx. $2.5k. For a further $300.00 I was issued with the ARB GVM upgrade documentation and compliance plate. As this was done on a brand new and not yet registered vehicle the compliance is nationally recognised. I understand (might be mistaken) that a GVM upgrade on an already registered vehicle is only recognised in the state of issue, not nationally.

The GVM upgrade on the BT 50 is based on increasing the rear axle load rating to the manufacturers maximum. For the BT 50 this provided a 130kg increase, at a cost of $300, in addition to the suspension upgrade.