In the white corner weighing 3.5t

I think we all need to weigh our vehicles if just to open our eyes to what we are asking of a 4WD when we go bush or a long trip.

4t, thats a heck of a lot aye Wayne.

Yeah I weighed the GQ a few weeks back at 2.72 ton with full fuel load of 95lts
Add two adults and tucker and clothes and two extra spares ...another 320kg and she weighs in at 3040 which 240kgs over the 2.8 ton GVM

Then the trailer goes on the back with the extra 240lts fuel and camping gear weighing in at 750kg all up.

Hit a head wind and you can see the fuel gauge move...lol

Hi Wayne,

Hi Wayne,

Should live in the country.....can get my Troopie weighed any day, or every day if wanted....and for nuffin.. lol

Regards
Michael B (SA)

So we are all driving illegal vehicles . . .

No wonder scruby loves us

Got our Troopy weighed a couple of years ago. 78 series pop-top camper ready for the bush, 5 days food, 45l water, 180 diesel, 2 people, dual batteries and all gear including spares and recovery gear - 2.9 ton.

Stevesub

roachies gotta take this out going by what I read on here

It is easy to get a troopy to weigh around the 4 tonne mark, when we did the CSR in 92 our old 2h powered 75 series weighed over the 4t when we left Halls Crk
Two adults, 3 kids, food for a month, 250 litres diesel, 120l water, camping gear, clothes etc.
We then flog it over sand dunes, it's a bloody wonder they never break. Must accelerate the wear though.
Part of the reason I bought the Humvee weighs 3t as it is and has a GVM of 4.2t and is rated for continuous duty at full GVM.

Our local tip has a weigh bridge and they are very helpful. I recently dropped in fully loaded with the CT in tow. Drove over the bridge a few times.
vehicle and CT
vehicle only
vehicle with CT, but with trailer wheels off bridge (ie vehicle and ball weight on bridge)
trailer wheels only on bridge (ie vehicle and ball weight off bridge).

He wrote it all down for my; no charge.

From that I can calculate any number of different weights.

What surprised me is the CT weight. When fully loaded with 200Lt water, 80Lt fuel, 2 AGM batteries, gennie, full kitchen, etc etc, it weighs just on 1,500KG. I had 'estimated' at least 150KG less than that.

As others have said, it really is worth the effort to know your vehicle, CT and ball weight.

Hmmmm. Interesting exercise. Now that you all know what the vehicles actually weigh, what are you going to do next???

Had a 4.2L patrol ute when working for a very large mining, excavation machinery company and it weighed in at around 3.2 T. Had all my tools on board + myself and a bit of diesel, but it had no extra's, of which we used to carry all the time. Don't think I would like to know what it weighed.

Greg S

Hi Wayne.
You know your industry, on the mechanical side of things I would be very concerned with a 9 - 10 YR old vechicle carrying that weight on corrugated roads for any lenght of time. Fatique with stub axles is something that can creep up with out warning.

Cheers Axle.

Thing is at least you could easily get your gvm uprated at your local ARB - to 3700kgs I believe. Only wagon with decent load carrying capacity really. Load a GU or 100 with fuel, people, water, bars and racks and you're illegal. You can put about 980kgs in from the factory floor with the troopy, depending on model.

I'll swap mine for Peters humvee though. Actually been watching the price of them and they seem to still want lots of money for very old ones unfortunately,
Matt