Weigh bridge, have you put you 4x4 on one ?

My Gu 4800 series 111 weighs in at 2500 with 180lt fuel , lockers, winch etc and is slightly lighter than standard.

Regularly weigh it , and try not add anything new unless I can take off equivalent weight elsewhere

Robin Miller

Evening Luch

100 series GVM ( max the vehicle "can" weigh fully loaded with fuel, luggage and max passengers is 3180 kgs

I drive a povety pack 100 series for work.

It has a steel bull bar
a 9000lb Warn winch
IPF lights,
dual batts,
Twine shower
Stratos seats for pass and driver
3 x transceivers
60 litre engel
cargo barrier
draws with about 60kgs in them
steel roof rack
Tow bar
spare wheel carrier
and 2 spares
Yamaha o/board
Hunter punt on rack along with fuel
has OME aftermarket suspension

Rear seat has been removed to fit fridge

With me and offsider, full tanks and food, water etc for a trip away it exceeds GVM by about 200kgs. - about 3350 - 3400 usually.

Going to use Nissan cab chassis for next work vehicle with aftermarket suspension and upgraded GVM - to 3700kgs

Cheers

Run my Troopy over the bridge at Katherine Checking station 3000kg , 360lts fuel and approx 60lt water

G,Day luch, did a three month trip at the end 2005 . Thought of weighing the troopy, camper all packed up but thought it might be a bit scary LOL. Its one of those things I have to do at some point. We are doing Cape York early October might have to get it done before then. Cheers

Hi There
We got a pretty hefty modified Troopy and fully fueled & watered up with 3 POB ready to travel she weight 3.78 Tonne

Max-GVM 3.2 tonne.

So now I need to convince the company that did our conversion to pay for the GVM upgrade- We wehre told that we should have about 2-300 Kg's left for loading- we got it back only just the other day ( March 29th) after being in they're shop since 2nd or 3rd December. Supossed to be finished before X-Mas last- dont ask long story

Cheers Jim

80 series lightly loaded 2950kg

My GU weighs 3000Kg unloaded half full fuel tanks.a bit of a worry sometimes.
Dave...

After 10 years of watching vehicles coming in and out of Birdsville and worrying about how much stuff sits on top of and in and seeing numerous roll overs we have for some time thought it should be mandatory that every one knows how much their vehicle weighs unloaded and loaded - should have to go over weighbridge as they leave home! Needless to say, ours is no different although we don't have a roof rack (purposely) - always have way too much stuff (and that doesn't means shoes either).

Discovery 3, GVM 3230Kg. Currently has ARB bar and Magnum 9000lb winch, 106 litre LR tank, Kaymar rear bar with one wheel carrier, one jerry can carrier, Expedition roof rack, Black Widow drawers and 50l Waeco. We took the No 6 and No 7 seats out.

Went over the weighbridge with one fat bastard (me) and a full tank. Front axle 1350Kg (only 100Kg spare) and rear axle 1500kg. Still to come is the Kimberley Kamper with drawbar weight of 115Kg and the Mrs (not going there...) plus another fridge and 55Kg of gear to go on the roof.

I reckon we'll be about 100Kg under top weight when we start travelling six weeks from now.

Excuse my ignorance but do you simply drive up to the weighbridge? Do you have to pay?

Does anyone know the nearest weighbridge to Glenfield / Ingleburn???

Sorry for the dumb question but I've never used one before.

It's all good and well to drive onto a weighbridge and go away either happy or sad but for those who drive away happy, consider the following:

As Russell H correctly noted, he has 100kg spare over the front axle... You MUST weigh each axle group if you are nearing your GVM, you may find yourself just under GVM but over on one or the other axles... This still renders you illegal on the roads.

Have not yet done the weigh in, FULLY equiped Troopy, with every gadget you can think of(incl 4 batteries) etc etc, will way before we travel next i'm guessing it will be something stupid like 4000 for the vehicle and 1500 for the boat. Will be hiding lots of stuff in the bush if the worst ever happens!

Mazda Bravo 4x4 diesel farm ute. Steel bullbar, steel tray, towbar.
2000kg with only driver.

Bare cab chassis is 1530kg so allowing 75kg for driver that makes the bullbar and tray 393kg. A lot isn't it! GVM is 2930 so I can still put a real tonne on the tray,almost legally.

Phil I

how do you work out the front axle group just go by tyres or is it half max wieght

steve