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Its a standard Witter towball not the Alko type and I wanted to know the nose weight limit, ie, A Disco is 150 kilos but a Mitsubishi L200 is only 104 kilos , when Ive finished with him, Im going after the Keyboard player HA HA
Its a standard Witter towball not the Alko type and I wanted to know the nose weight limit, ie, A Disco is 150 kilos but a Mitsubishi L200 is only 104 kilos , when Ive finished with him, Im going after the Keyboard player HA HA
Ha ha ha sorry am I missing something or have you lost the plot....
i thought the legal / recommended max for any vehicle was 80kg?
most vehicles have a clearly defined rear-axle max. load, but do not define what the maximum weight can be placed in the boot (trunk). In this case, 75 kgs are applied to each of the 2 front seats, and 75 kgs are applied across the rear seat and the weight is measured under each rear tyre footprint. The difference between the sum of the rear tyre footprint weights and the maximum represents the available load in the luggage compartment – or more importantly – as a nose-load imposed on the tow-bar.
I haven't been able to find an official max noseweight for the Surf BUT since the 3rd gen is based on Colorado running gear and my (Colorado) Witter towbar is rated at 140kg that's what I take to be the max noseweight.
Realistically for most purposes it's irrelevant as the max load on the caravan or trailer chassis is likely to be far lower anyway - for instance the Alko chassis is only rated at 100kg !
Caravan Club recommendation is maximum of 7% of MTPLM, as is the caravan manufacturer's limit usually, unless a lower limit is specified for the car or by the towbar manufacturer.
I've taken mine up to 97kgs, which is the max specified for my van, without any problems, although I usually try to run it at around 80-85kgs as it's quite stable at that noseweight.
I couldn't find a specific limit for the Surf but based on similar vehicles and towbars, I would guess that up to about 110-115kgs should be OK.
unlike a car a 4x4 noseweight is not that important, the important thing is you load it proply, if the towball is set at the average height from the road, the caravan should sit level if loaded ok.
i loaded mine up on friday before the bala run, checked the level then out of interest put the van on a set of scales = 78-80 kgs.
cannt do any worse than a $$$$$$ i saw on friday heading into wales in a volvo estate towing a twin axel fleetwood his ball s were nearly dragging on the road, he was breaking ever tow rule going, would hate to see what would happen if a kid ran out in front of him
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