Overloading

[Crusty181]

Has anyone noticed the new Navara had a reduced GVM when tow ball weight is added. A max of 300kg TBW reduces the GVM by 410kg. I thought that was interesting but made sense with the TBW being behind rather spread over the tray.

Not a new thing @Tone. My 2014 D40 and 2009 D40 before that has the same but the 200kg reductions not quite as bad as 410kg. I presumed all the utes would have some GVM reduction when you load up to the max ball weight

 

[Tone]

I guess the 300kg TBW is the max allowed
GVM 2910kg
Kerb Weight 1980kg for ST-X with full fuel/fluids
So with max ball weight leaves you 520kg for everything, canopy 70kg, front bar 60kg, towbar 20kg, 2 adults 200kg leaves 170kg before you start filling it up.

 

[cruza driver]

No @Kenshi123 you cant put this on your drawbar as it may overload it but it sure would make other travellers envious.

 

[bigcol]

now THATS camping in style

 

[Crusty181]

No @Kenshi123 you cant put this on your drawbar as it may overload it but it sure would make other travellers envious.

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It shouldnt overload it ..... because you wont need anything else in the back

 

[Kenshi123]

No @Kenshi123 you cant put this on your drawbar as it may overload it but it sure would make other travellers envious.

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Hahahaha. Awwww. How awesome would it be though!

 

[Dobbie]

Just caught up with this thread again as I've been away.

Funny thing I caught myself doing....while on Ghan I contemplated it's GVM, the tow ball weight of each of the carriages and the number of very overweight passengers etc etc and I even checked out the carriage springs.

Far too much information!

And the figures I guessed were mind boggling, particularly when I discovered it wasn't running till early last week after some problem with a freight train that had damaged the track.

I guess railway engineers have to consider ALL the relevant weights so maybe the experience they have can be transposed to road towing conditions.