Great Scott where did the weight come from.???

Hi M&N's, hope you haven't been eating too many M&M's, sorry the demon made me say it ??
Did you use the weighbridge in Garbutt at the scrap metal dealer? I had my tinny weighed there at a cost of $30 plus gst, yeah I know, ripped off right? Didn't find out the cost till it was too late.
Anyway the tinny came in at exactly 100 kg, so then had it weighed at another weighbridge
(At no cost) and guess what? came in at 93 kg, go figure.
Went back to first weighbridge only to be told what I was expecting. Other weighbridge was obviously faulty as theirs was spot on, yeah right
Won't be selling scrap there any time soon.
Cheers and good luck with your problem
Ray

Even if they are reading high that's an enormous amount of weight over the rear, and + TBW you are kidding. Lucky it's not a Triton , you would have bent in half a long time ago .

So, what's the compliance plate mass ? Just curious how much more your extras weigh.

I can remember some farmer mates taking their traytop HJ47 up the CSR some 35 yrs ago.
They threw in everything they thought they'd need (they were going in a 7 vehicle convoy) - and when they weighed the HJ47 on the local grain bin scales, it tipped the scales at 3500kgs!

They had to go home and sort out exactly what was important and needed, and what wasn't.
They finally managed to shave about half a tonne off the gross weight, but they were still heavy.

At the end of the day, the only trouble they ran into, was one of the 'Cruisers broke a tie-rod end - and that was the only part that none of them carried!
One of them had to do a rush trip into Newman to source the tie-rod end, so they could keep going!

Cheers, Ron.

Yep Weighed ours when we first got it and with eight people in it and a small carry on bag we were way over gvm.

Now add the front and rear steel bars, side steps, roof rack + RTT and the drawer system and the long range tank. Way over.

So we have upped the GVM. All good with plenty of leeway.

Haven't been pulled over but have seen others.

It's heavy, I agree, but it still takes us where we want to go. And more importantly brings us home.

Phil

I think it pays to find out about how the Road Vehicle Certification System works in Australia, before one makes statements that are incorrect.
The original vehicle manufacturer attaches a vehicle compliance plate at the factory, when the vehicle is being produced in numbers.

This compliance plate must never be removed from that vehicle. This is because of the amount of work the manufacturer has gone to, to ensure their vehicle meets all certification requirements to be registered in Australia.

Any engineering work done on the vehicle that substantially alters the vehicles original specifications, must include an ADDITIONAL compliance plate, outlining any alterations and changes to specifications.

The original compliance plate is never replaced, because the original vehicle has met the certification requirements, and any engineering alterations are merely modifications to the original certification.

To remove a compliance plate from any vehicle is an offence, and to be in possession of any compliance plates, without owning the vehicle that they fit, is also an offence.

Individually-built vehicles have no requirement for a compliance plate, they are engineer-certified to meet registration requirements under the laws applying to low-volume construction.

Vehicle Compliance applications are done online, using a standard form, identical to a paper form.
These online forms can have alterations made to the "standard data", if the person applying believes the standard data is incorrect.
All of these applications are individually examined and reviewed, and approvals given where all certification criteria are met.
All states are notified of certification approvals that have been given, when a compliance plate is issued.

Interestingly, there is a move over to simple decals for compliance plates today, instead of the aluminium tag we normally recognise.
My missus' 2012 Camry has no aluminium compliance tag, it merely has a compliance decal on the passenger door frame, and the VIN serial number is stamped into the floor under the drivers seat.
There is no vehicle information whatsoever in or around the engine bay of the Camry, as we would normally expect to see.

Here is all the relevant information relating to the Road Vehicle Certification System.

Vehicle Certification in Australia

RVCS - About Us

Certification form process

G'day Baz the Landy

You had me doubting my memory so I just double checked , the GVM was definitely done pre rego , well it was supposed to be , unless the bloody dealer rego the Ute first , I'm sure they didn't do that , but will check , anyway both plates are there ,

ARB Plate on firewall

Original Isuzu plate under bonnet just above Right Head light

The problem is of course one of the major bug bears of vehicle manufacturing , most of our vehicles today are made in Asia where general body size / weight is less than in Australia , shove 5 average Australian blokes into a dual cab and you've hit the payload allowed , put 5 average weighted Asians in the same vehicle and you still have payload available , time we stopped the Australian obesity epidemic ...