I am trying to estimate an average weight for stuff I carry as I am considering insurance from a French Insurance Company as I leave my 'van there this year. I have to give the gross weight and I know the manufactured weight. I carry a 6kg gas cylinder and a telly and sky box, 4 chairs, sat dish, BBQ, water and waste holders and the usual foods, a few bottles (of course) and the normal amount of clothes/bedding etc an awning mat but no awning.
I know I can weigh at a public weigh bridge but I just want an estimate.
You need to be careful, don't assume the MIRO is the weight of the delivered van.
It might be but its often the base spec of that van or that of a not quite finished prototype.
I had my new one accurately weighed [load cell under each wheel]as a condition of acceptance and it was 68 kg over its MIRO. In my case I think a prototype derived issue, but one requiring replating of the production vans.
Returning to the 220kgs, well I have weighed everything that came out of my last van and all that went in mine and its easy to get to 220. I had over 220 but well within the quoted payload
Battery, mover, awning, crocks, gas cylinders, spare wheel, cable, chairs, food clothes etc. You do the same it's frightening how the overall weight grows.
To make a list and weigh each lot is the only way to do it properly.
Relative to our peers we don't seem to carry a huge amount so from our work I am confident many are well overloaded.
You will be surprised how much things weigh, we have just set up our van- going on first trip at the weekend, we have weighed everything as it has gone in (as we have in the past with the folding camper) and have just about reached the weight allowed. My advice is don't guess!
To save you the trouble of towing your van to a weighbridge, why not weigh your car when you next pass a weighbridge, load it with your kit & then re-weigh it to establish the weight of your equipment. Inform the weighb ridge clerk what you're doing & you probably won't get charged until you get a weigh ticket.
Would the insurance cost that much more if you logged the weight to the max allowed for the van? At least you know you'll be covered if you're confident your equipment doesn't weigh that much.
I'd just insure for the MLTPM (unless that make the insurance prohibitively expensive) - we've weighed everything going into our caravan and are over 200kg.
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Topic: Weight of Caravan Equipment
