Thread: Y62 patrol

Originally Posted by Tombie

Sounds like you’ll be shopping for a GVM and GCM upgrade!

Atleast you can get a gvm upgrade for them

Originally Posted by Tombie

Sounds like you’ll be shopping for a GVM and GCM upgrade!

L494 RRS TDV8 has plenty of headroom standard so it is looking most likely. GCM 6700kg, GVM 3200 and tare of 2398 without extras so probably close to 2500kg. That should give me 400kg for passengers and gear with the van hooked up. there is only 3 of us with a combined weight of 170kg.

Originally Posted by Geedublya

L494 RRS TDV8 has plenty of headroom standard so it is looking most likely. GCM 6700kg, GVM 3200 and tare of 2398 without extras so probably close to 2500kg. That should give me 400kg for passengers and gear with the van hooked up. there is only 3 of us with a combined weight of 170kg.

So the nissan has a gvm of 3500, payload of 785 (about 15kg less than the rover) gcm of 7000. And you can get a gvm upgrade for it.

I haven't seen a GVM upgrade for the Patrol as yet only the 200 series. The Patrol is already off my list for other reasons.

Originally Posted by Vern

So the nissan has a gvm of 3500, payload of 785 (about 15kg less than the rover) gcm of 7000. And you can get a gvm upgrade for it.

Yes but unlike the Landy the Nissan eats GVM once you put more than 250kg on the tow bar. So that quickly becomes 655kg

Originally Posted by Vern

Atleast you can get a gvm upgrade for them

You can GVM upgrade others if you hire the engineer and pass the tests.

Originally Posted by Tombie

Yes but unlike the Landy the Nissan eats GVM once you put more than 250kg on the tow bar. So that quickly becomes 655kg

How does it differ between the makes? I never realised gcm eats into gvm

Originally Posted by Tombie

Yes but unlike the Landy the Nissan eats GVM once you put more than 250kg on the tow bar. So that quickly becomes 655kg

Yes but it still has a 7000kg gcm. Even with 100kg less payload assuming you have 350kg on the tow ball you still have a payload of 680kg. I dont know about you but my mrs, myself and my daughter wouldnt total 160kg. Even a average family with 4 adults would struggle to tip the scales at 400kg average id imagine.

So lets add a bullbar at 80kg, slightly bigger tyres (40kg), fridge (30kg) and we've deducted a further 150kg from our payload. Therefore 150kg+400kg is 550kg total leaving me with 130kg up my sleeve. The kicker however is i have a true 3.5ton tow capacity as part of my 7000kg gcm. I dont know about you but i reckon i could fit a lot of things in the van as there aren't that many vans that actually weigh 3.5 ton, most weigh under 3.2 so i dont see any issue here at all.

Am i missing something here?