Motorhome police weighbridge

DB1904

marlot said:

lordmountararat said:

Some motorhomes have ridiculously Low weight margins. I have seen them as low as 300kg excluding driver but including a half filled tank of fuel. Since the average adult weighs around 75kg, there really isn't much leeway. You see them lurching around corners, obviously grossly over loaded, or hardly able to keep in their motorway lane in a high wind.

Yes, I saw one which was advertised as a 4-berth.  Max gross weight of 3,500Kg.

But it it had a payload of less than 200Kg.  If you say 75kg for a second adult (one is included in the basic weight), a couple of 40kg teenagers, a 25 kg dog, you'd have to leave the clothes, food, water, camp chairs, bikes at home.  That sounds like a pretty miserable holiday.

Is it? By my maths second passenger, dog and two teenagers is 180kg. The driver can
only weight however much is within the 200kg limit, I don't think at less than 20kg they'd be fit to drive.

marlot

DB1904 said:

marlot said:

lordmountararat said:

Some motorhomes have ridiculously Low weight margins. I have seen them as low as 300kg excluding driver but including a half filled tank of fuel. Since the average adult weighs around 75kg, there really isn't much leeway. You see them lurching around corners, obviously grossly over loaded, or hardly able to keep in their motorway lane in a high wind.

Yes, I saw one which was advertised as a 4-berth.  Max gross weight of 3,500Kg.

But it it had a payload of less than 200Kg.  If you say 75kg for a second adult (one is included in the basic weight), a couple of 40kg teenagers, a 25 kg dog, you'd have to leave the clothes, food, water, camp chairs, bikes at home.  That sounds like a pretty miserable holiday.

Is it? By my maths second passenger, dog and two teenagers is 180kg. The driver can
only weight however much is within the 200kg limit, I don't think at less than 20kg they'd be fit to drive.

The figure was the Mass in running order (also known as MIRO). This refers to the weight of a motorhome when it came out of the factory with an average driver weight of 75 kg and a full tank of fuel.

Some motorhome manufacturers have even been fitting smaller fuel tanks so they can reduce the MIRO!

DB1904

marlot said:

DB1904 said:

marlot said:

lordmountararat said:

Some motorhomes have ridiculously Low weight margins. I have seen them as low as 300kg excluding driver but including a half filled tank of fuel. Since the average adult weighs around 75kg, there really isn't much leeway. You see them lurching around corners, obviously grossly over loaded, or hardly able to keep in their motorway lane in a high wind.

Yes, I saw one which was advertised as a 4-berth.  Max gross weight of 3,500Kg.

But it it had a payload of less than 200Kg.  If you say 75kg for a second adult (one is included in the basic weight), a couple of 40kg teenagers, a 25 kg dog, you'd have to leave the clothes, food, water, camp chairs, bikes at home.  That sounds like a pretty miserable holiday.

Is it? By my maths second passenger, dog and two teenagers is 180kg. The driver can
only weight however much is within the 200kg limit, I don't think at less than 20kg they'd be fit to drive.

The figure was the Mass in running order (also known as MIRO). This refers to the weight of a motorhome when it came out of the factory with an average driver weight of 75 kg and a full tank of fuel.

Some motorhome manufacturers have even been fitting smaller fuel tanks so they can reduce the MIRO!

As long as that's reflected on the plated weight then that's all well and good. Even so it's a very poor margin to have. Does that include water and gas?