Is your caravan compliance plate a little bit of BS, How does a manufacture arrive at the numbers to stamp on a compliance plate ?
One could suggest from the start everything is a guess until the van build is complete, it's then they establish the TARE and the EBM (empty ball mass).
The next step would to add a fictious number to establish the ATM then the EBM is subtracted from the ATM to give you the GTM.
IE. Tare 2200kg plus 600kg equals ATM 2800kg minus EBM 220kg gives you a GTM of 2580kg, In theory you is have a load availablity of 380kg, but we all know this is not the real load availability.
You load your van ready for the big lap, fill the water tanks and gas bottles add another battery upgrade the solar panels.
Are you game enough to just go on your adventure or do you go to a weighbridge to check your weights, this is when reality bites, WTF I'm overloaded.
We bought our caravan new/secondhand. It was new on the dealers block, someone was interested in buying it & got a rollout awning plus air-conditioner added to it by the dealer. They changed their minds & pulled out of the sale. We came along & bought it at a much reduced price. It had done about 20kms. The weight figures engraved on the compliance plate don't allow for the additional equipment. We ran it over a weighbridge & found that we could only put 300kg of our belongings in it. We've been traveling with some of gear in our ute with a canopy. Our weights are OK because our caravan weighs 1620kg fully loaded (compliance plate figure) with a ball weight of 170kg. Our Navara has a towing capacity of 2800kg & a maximum ball weight of 280kg which reduces when carrying a load in the tub. If we fill the water tank in the caravan we're overloaded. We carry a couple of water bottles in the tub & only have about 1/4 of a tank in the caravan.
-- Edited by 86GTS on Monday 14th of February 2022 04:05:09 PM
