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I won’t hold anyone to it but in my 7m , 3500 kg motorhome , approximately how much weight can I safely put in the garage . The rest of the van will have 2 adults, clothes etc . I only ask because my son in Italy is taking our pending trip as an opportunity for us to ship down some items . The van is rated for 3850 .
 
Ours originally was an 8 meter A class on a 4.5 ton chassis. 250 Kgs was what we could carry in the garage

Kev
 
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A 7m van will have very little payload to spare at 3500kg. The van may be capable of carrying 3850kg but if it is registered at 3500kg that is your limit. You also need to consider the rear axle limit (probably 2000kg) and any specific load limit required by the supporting structure beneath the garage. The manufacturer should be able to give you the structural load limit of the garage and the rest you can get by weighing the fully loaded motorhome to see if you have any kg to spare.
 
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A 7m van will have very little payload to spare at 3500kg. The van may be capable of carrying 3850kg but if it is registered at 3500kg that is your limit. You also need to consider the rear axle limit (probably 2000kg) and any specific load limit required by the supporting structure beneath the garage. The manufacturer should be able to give you the structural load limit of the garage and the rest you can get by weighing the fully loaded motorhome to see if you have any kg to spare.
Sorry my mistake , I have had it updated to 3850
 
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The weight you can put in the garage will depend on what the manufacturer designed it to take. If they used lightweight chassis extensions then it may be quite low. Is there any markings on the garage doors giving the safe loading?

Obviously when loading you will need to take account of the overall loaded weight of the vehicle and the loading of the back axle.

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We have a 7.3m and the previous owner used to put a scooter in the garage! We still have the ramp in there but I wouldn't want to carry that kind of weight in there at all. Not when you consider that there's also potentiallt 2 adults sleeping in the bed above, as well as all the other paraphernalia that people carry. Still, having said that, the back end clearly never fell off!! :eek: :unsure:
 
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get the vehicle weighed when you are fully loaded with your touring load get both axels weighed and that will tell you how much extra weight you can carry .
your plated weight will be on the plate you obtained when uprating
 
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Chausson will confirm, but quite often 100kg is the limit for the garage, think large bulky, not small dense objects.
You can, [ like me] have additional supporting struts put under the garage area taking the limit up to 250kg.
To exploit this fully I added air bags to the rear, and changed the tyres to higher load version. We now max out at 4090kg.
2240kg on the back axle. 1850kg on the front.I carry a little Honda Wave in our garage, as an extra I also added a length of dexion angle screwed and glued on the front leading edge where the garage floor meets the upright, belt and braces.
Mike.
 
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Thanks all

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Based on others weighbridge results you'd struggle to carry 100kg in the garage based on the 2000kg rear axle if you travel in low anxiety mode (with some gas, water, food, clothes etc and a passenger on board).
 
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My 3500k van has a weight limit of 150k in the garage according to the bumf
 
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I won’t hold anyone to it but in my 7m , 3500 kg motorhome , approximately how much weight can I safely put in the garage . The rest of the van will have 2 adults, clothes etc . I only ask because my son in Italy is taking our pending trip as an opportunity for us to ship down some items . The van is rated for 3850 .
As others have said, 150 kg is the average on a light MH, the garage floor is usually aluminium chequer plate over a very thin floor, you may have the overall weight capacity, but the construction of the garage floor limits its use.
 
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My garage is rated at 150kg max. Pity as its enormous.
There are two single beds above it, with weighty persons sleeping in them at night, however the vehicle is not moving then.
You can increase the load carrying with the struts that bolt to standard Fiat chassis, this will give you an additional 100kg. There may be other kits that allow up to 500kg. You will need to check your axle loading and overall weight though.
Watlings Engineering used to be the go to people for this upgrade, but they shut up shop a while ago, but others may do the same upgrade. The kit can be sourced through a dealer, but a reasonable degree of mechanical and hand proficiency is required to fit it, and some metal cutting involved.
Mike.

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My 3500k van has a weight limit of 150k in the garage according to the bumf
See my post Nb 8. This is for the Sunlight T66.almost certainly the same chassis as yours.
The kit is made by the same people who supply the existing struts under the garage , [ Saweco ? spelling].
Mike.
 
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Thanks. It was a bit early for scrabbling around under the chassis looking for label.
Mike :LOL:
 
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My 3500k van has a weight limit of 150k in the garage according to the bumf
Mine too but I don't know if that is for the floor strength or chassis extension strength or weight on axles. In theory I could put 150kg in the garage and then stick 50kg of bikes on the rear. I also could fill the 140L water tank which sits behind the rear axle. Add the 2 of us in bed also both behind the rear axle so you can see I don't quite get what the 150kg limit in the garage refers to. Sounds like it's just floor strength.
 
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If you are on the light chassis and your upgrade to 3850 included semi air and 225/70/r15 tyres the max rear axle load will be 2240

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Mine too but I don't know if that is for the floor strength or chassis extension strength or weight on axles. In theory I could put 150kg in the garage and then stick 50kg of bikes on the rear. I also could fill the 140L water tank which sits behind the rear axle. Add the 2 of us in bed also both behind the rear axle so you can see I don't quite get what the 150kg limit in the garage refers to. Sounds like it's just floor strength.
I think your right on mine the chassis extension is not anywhere as good as chassis
 
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Mine too but I don't know if that is for the floor strength or chassis extension strength or weight on axles. In theory I could put 150kg in the garage and then stick 50kg of bikes on the rear. I also could fill the 140L water tank which sits behind the rear axle. Add the 2 of us in bed also both behind the rear axle so you can see I don't quite get what the 150kg limit in the garage refers to. Sounds like it's just floor strength.
It is probably down to floor strength.
Ours is a 350kg limit, the garage has a self supporting GRP floor. If you have the 450kg option they fit chassis rxtions under the garage floor.
 
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We’ve had 2 Adria’s both have 150kg limit for the garage.
 
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chassis extension strength or weight on axles.
these^^^^
In theory I could put 150kg in the garage and then stick 50kg of bikes on the rear. I also could fill the 140L water tank which sits behind the rear ax
& you would probably be over on the rear axle weight
 
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150kg for a garage seems very low, ours is 350kg with an option of 450kg.
150kg used to be the standard (pre 2007) I found with research when looking to buy my current van
It all seems a bit ambiguous though because my van has a 150kg maximum garage load but has proper chassis extensions under the garage that will allow towbar attachment 🤷‍♂️
I think manufacturers just under state the garage weight so you dont overload the rear axle.......who on here hasn't seen a person on site open a garage with about 2 ton of stuff in it 🤣🤣

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