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snowy747

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Have you been leading us up the garden path Meta1mickey lol?!

Phew, looks like your outfit is ok, ideally you need to know the unladen weight so you can subtract that from the design weight to give you the figure for how much weight you can place in the van.

Happy vanning!

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meta1mickey

12/5/2009 at 7:15pm
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lol its been driving me round the bend. There had to be a reason why it was coming out so heavy. To be honest i thought this is ridiculous i have bought a van which i have to tow empty.

meta1mickey

25/5/2009 at 12:31pm
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Hello again, I have tried in vain to find out the unladen weight of my caravan. As you can see, i have had quite a number of helpful replies. My van (as above) is an ABBEY 214 GT. The plate says (Design weaight 1045kgs) There are no weigh bridges near me where i live. Would anyone know the unladen weight of this van so its not overloaded. We dont take an awful lot of gear anyway but i would like to feel confident that i am well within the weight allowed. Thanks

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looking at all the other abbey range they tend to be a high with the unladen weights so that be at a guess it`s unladen mass to be sure ring swift up and ask them.

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Take a look at

www.whattowcar.com

It will match your car and caravan to give you the %

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the caravan is not listed on there so they need the weights and only having 1 part of the sums and not knowing which part you be out of luck

macbethandophelia

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there is one here for sale and the dealer quotes the unladen weight as 930kg

http://www.caravanselecta.co.uk/Advert/Display-Touring-Caravan-For-Sale.aspx?id=38348

meta1mickey

25/5/2009 at 8:43pm
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Thanks, but that is the gts vogue 214 smaller than mine. I have the Abbey 214 gt 1989. As said the Design weight is 1045kgs. Whats the unladen weight? Thats what im after.

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