load weight

[lee 4x4]

Anybody know how much weight I can carry in the back of my t2 lwb with the seats down. I need to pick up some breeze blocks but not sure how many to take at a time. They will be spread out from the front seats back.

 

[Banshee]

Anybody know how much weight I can carry in the back of my t2 lwb with the seats down. I need to pick up some breeze blocks but not sure how many to take at a time. They will be spread out from the front seats back.

Well I had 1.5 tonne of ballast in the back of my SWB and I didn't even know

 

[rustic]

Well I had 1.5 tonne of ballast in the back of my SWB and I didn't even know

There is a legal limit, ie difference between gross vehicle weight and kerbside weight, so it is around the 600 kg mark, but depends if swb or lwb, but 1500 kg is excessive:augie

Even distribution is key to vehicle loading, we've had over 600 kg of sandstone, some on the front passenger foot well, some on rear passenger foot well, then the rest over the rear floor over the folded down seats. There was tons of spring left in the suspension.

In my lwb Mav... it's a 7 seater, so all could be rugby players at 100 kg each...:augie

 

[lee 4x4]

So 50 blocks is going to damage anything in a lwb

 

[rustic]

So 50 blocks is going to damage anything in a lwb

Depends on how much each one weighs...

There are some really light ones available.

 

[lee 4x4]

I was thinking a 100mm block was about 5kg lol. Just checked and their 13.7kg

 

[Lazy-Ferret]

I looked once before, but could not find it written down anywhere.

On our Long wheel base T2, when we go to Wickes for Sand and Cement, we get it when it is on offer, usually getting 40 bags of sand/shingle, and 5 bags of Cement, which all weigh in at around 25Kgper bag, except when they store the sand/shingle in the yard and it had rained, I dread to think how much they really weigh then.

We put 18 in the trailer, as it's limit is 450Kg, and the rest in the car, so that would be about 675Kg in the car boot. This tends to be with the rear most seats removed and the other rear seats in the upright position, so does put most of the weight behind the wheels. It definitely makes the back end go down nearly to the stops, and I would not want to drive a huge distance that loaded, so if I was you, I would stick to around only putting 40(ish) in at a time.

 

[lee 4x4]

I looked once before, but could not find it written down anywhere.

On our Long wheel base T2, when we go to Wickes for Sand and Cement, we get it when it is on offer, usually getting 40 bags of sand/shingle, and 5 bags of Cement, which all weigh in at around 25Kgper bag, except when they store the sand/shingle in the yard and it had rained, I dread to think how much they really weigh then.

We put 18 in the trailer, as it's limit is 450Kg, and the rest in the car, so that would be about 675Kg in the car boot. This tends to be with the rear most seats removed and the other rear seats in the upright position, so does put most of the weight behind the wheels. It definitely makes the back end go down nearly to the stops, and I would not want to drive a huge distance that loaded, so if I was you, I would stick to around only putting 40(ish) in at a time.

That's OK then.I wanted 40 and not far to go,,,just didn't want to break anything which would of been my luck :augie

 

[Lazy-Ferret]

That's OK then.I wanted 40 and not far to go,,,just didn't want to break anything which would of been my luck :augie

I know that feeling... :doh

Now in true American style, the small print....

I must add, I am not recommending you do this, I am purely stating what I have done 7 or 8 times in my own T2....:lol

 

[lee 4x4]

Lol. While were on the subject of load weights, my roof rails say a Max of 50kg. That doesn't seem a lot :nenau

 

[Lazy-Ferret]

Lol. While were on the subject of load weights, my roof rails say a Max of 50kg. That doesn't seem a lot :nenau

I know, I think my roof box weighs 20Kg... there is an Irony that the bigger the roof box, the less you can actually put in it...:lol

 

[walshie]

Yeh I can confirm roof bars can take a lot more, I had ten sheets of plasterboard on mine, only realised when I got home they were 25kg each and the bars were only rated to 50kg.

 

[Terrano Steve]

I used to work for a company manufacturing concrete blocks, 100mm x 215 x 440mm or 4" in old money are over 19kgs each.
That is unless you are talking about light weight insulation blocks Thermalite/celcon/durox etc.

 

[solarman216]

Anybody know how much weight I can carry in the back of my t2 lwb with the seats down. I need to pick up some breeze blocks but not sure how many to take at a time. They will be spread out from the front seats back.

if your rubber bump stops/spring assistors are OK then one tonne, Rick

 

[solarman216]

Lol. While were on the subject of load weights, my roof rails say a Max of 50kg. That doesn't seem a lot :nenau

think that is 50 per cross bar so 100 in total, think that would be enough anyway for stability, take it easy on roundabouts etc, Rick