How much do I weigh?

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Hi all

I would to know how much my van weighs. I have 2 main questions

1. What's the best way of weighing a van? Do I go full of petrol and water? Or as little as possible

2 Anyone know a good weigh bridge near sittingbourne in Kent?
 
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Hi don't if you're sorted yet, I live in sittingbourne too, I'm pretty sure Brett's at Oare Road (end of western link) faversham, will weigh your van
 
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Mr Colpot said:
If you google weighbridge near sittingbourne you will be able to find one. Our local one (West Sussex) is a metal recycler. Cost £5. Drive on for whole weight and then forward leaving rear wheels on scales for rear axle weight. Subtract rear from whole to give front. Ticket gives the weights and says driver and passenger included. We normally weigh ours with full water and fuel and all the stuff for a week away.
Weighed ours this week as we are having E&P levellers fitted soon and we have just removed a table from the dinette.
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Where abouts are you ? The ones around here in East Sussex are £15/£20
 
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We go a farm about 11 miles from York. you drive the front axle onto the pan and they weight it, then the whole van on and they weight it and finally you drive forward so only the rear wheels are on it and they weigh it. Give you print out with the 3 weights and sign it. You hand over the £20 (cash only😉) and off you go.
Have found that half the weigh bridges listed by the local authority are either restricted or have closed. 😕
 
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If you use a public weigh bridge they may not charge at all if you don't want a ticket. You can make your own note of the front, rear and combined axle weights. A ticket, like an MOT, is only good for that trip.
Some weigh bridges might insist on taking money (£10-£20) for a ticket but that should allow you two weighings within 24hours. For that, I suggest you get one completely empty, then return for another carrying what you'd expect to have when travelling.
Personally, I don't use weigh bridges (I'd rather not know how close I am) and I don't think I'm the only one. Others might claim to visit their weigh bridge routinely, but I cannot think why...
 
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If you have to pay per weight, just one axle and total would do.
 
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two said:
If you use a public weigh bridge they may not charge at all if you don't want a ticket. You can make your own note of the front, rear and combined axle weights. A ticket, like an MOT, is only good for that trip.
Some weigh bridges might insist on taking money (£10-£20) for a ticket but that should allow you two weighings within 24hours. For that, I suggest you get one completely empty, then return for another carrying what you'd expect to have when travelling.
Personally, I don't use weigh bridges (I'd rather not know how close I am) and I don't think I'm the only one. Others might claim to visit their weigh bridge routinely, but I cannot think why...
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Personally i think your just burying your head.
and from where I bury mine I cant even see you :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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Manic said:
If you have to pay per weight, just one axle and total would do.
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One ticket has space for two weights, but they don't need to be completed at the same time.
I like to know my minimum weight (half gas + fuel, no water or waste) as a starting point and then the weight in "running order", ready to go with all passengers.
If just one visit, go as you intend to travel (you'll probably need to take something off) and any two weights will give you the third. I would weigh both axles, then the rear.
 
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I only needed to weigh mine once as I have the same stuff for every trip which stays on board all year. The only variables might be food and clothes but even then the food and clothes weight varies very little from trip to trip.
 
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pappajohn said:
Evidently it depends on the type of scales.
Some old ones need you to be central of the platform and with most motorhome wheelbase that isn't possible to get the front off with the rear central. .
It probably works fine on modern digital bridges.
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We had the above happen to us when weighing at a scrap yard. According to their scales by this method [ whole van on scales , then drive front wheels off only, subtract difference for rear axle weight] I was 20kg over on rear axle!! Much manoeuvring later, and getting just the back wheels on the weigh bridge gave me a more pleasing, 100kg under on the back axle , [ fully loaded]. This also confirmed what our Reich scales said, so a good cross reference.
Mike

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donkey said:
I think it became posher on the day I left West Sussex.:cry:

Geoff
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Was that day before or after me? I left to start a new life, but the ex Mrs Marchie, a nurse, was determined to undertake one final medical exercise as a valedictory present; her last words, as I passed through the doorway were 'coff ...' :ROFLMAO:

Steve
 
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Eggs said:
This is my last go at this, go back and read post #4, is that the correct way to establish axle weights?
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This only works correctly if the entrance to or exit from the weighbridge is exactly level with the plate itself. If there is a slight ramp up or down then front or rear weight cannot be relied on.
 
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BillyKontiki said:
Try your local council cleansing where the bin lorries go, it’s free in Glasgow.
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Everythings free in Scotland because the English pay for it

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mitzimad said:
Everythings free in Scotland because the English pay for it
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Utter nonsense pedlled by the English Press. Scotland & Wales between them cover the English deficit by some 125%. The WM Government ceased publishing the surplus generated by Scotland in 1922, fearful that release of the figures would encourage Scotland to follow Ireland to independence. The GERS figures are also a work of fiction because of the allocated expenditure based upon the population percentage. Ian Laing, the then Secretary of State for Scotland admitted around 1992 in an email to John Major that the structure of GERS gave the WM Government 'certain advantages' over their political opponents.

Steve
 
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mitzimad said:
Everythings free in Scotland because the English pay for it
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That screen could do with a wipe.

Who's kidding who with the decimal precision?

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two said:
That screen could do with a wipe.

Who's kidding who with the decimal precision?
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I thought that after I took the photo.
Spec is +/- 5%, worst error I have had compared to weighbridge is 50 kg but after a bit of calibrating got it down to under 10kg.
Who cares when you have 300kg of spare payload. :rofl:

Tolerance on a weighbridge is either +/- 110kg or +/- 150kg depending on the type.
 
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Does your system show the distribution, side-to-side, Lenny HB ?
If you're fussy about axle loads, and precision to even 10kg, a sideways imbalance is just as important!
 
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two said:
Does your system show the distribution, side-to-side, Lenny HB ?
If you're fussy about axle loads, and precision to even 10kg, a sideways imbalance is just as important!
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No just front and rear axle.
Not important with air suspension van always rides level & same height regardless of the load.
 
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Well, air suspension may grant you some bragging rights, but I don't think it should be expected to compensate for a poorly loaded vehicle.
 
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