Thread: Towing Weights

Originally Posted by Tombie

In the grand scheme there's about 4 (excluding F trucks and the like)..

LC, Disco, Defender and some Patrols.

Not a single DC ute can be at 3,500kg and be useable.

And dont the DC ute adds flog the 3500Kg towing capacity , wonder how many believe they can load up a DC to the max and pull a 3500kg van .

Originally Posted by veebs

Following with interest...

Has anybody figured out what the 'empty' weights on the D4 axles are? I would assume the car is front heavy when empty, so guessing at 55:45 split of the 2583kg kerb weight means:

Front has 1421, Rear has 1162

If we assume 200kg of payload is distributed front to rear (eg passengers) we come up to 1521/1262 (note, we're now exceeding the front axle limit)

Putting the balance of the 657 payload into the back, we get 1521/1719. There is an argument to be made that weight added behind the rear wheel would present a weight saving on the front axle (by way of a lever of course), but I've ignored that for now.

If I go back and set the kerb weight to be split 50:50, we get 1391.5 / 1848.5 when 200kg distributed and 457kg in the boot (or on the towball). All within limits, but the 50:50 ratio strikes me as somewhat unlikely?

id really like to find someones measured rear axle weight on a stock d4 5 seater with full tank

re some earlier comments regarding the often touted 350kg ball weight capacity, and 3.5 towing, this can be missleading, and there's no way a landrover is carrying 350 or even 300 ball weight without going over the rear axle limit.

something to keep in mind also is that if you have 3.5T Trailer/caravan, youll find the actual weight limit of the van axles is less, for my van its 3305kg , so at max capacity you could only have a ball weight of 195kg to be able to stay under the max total limit of 3.5T,

this is a ball weight percentage close to 5% which is well under LR limits of 7% , so to get that (which im ok with but many will try and argue you need 10% which is almost impossible for a 3.5t van) you would want to drop your max van axle weight by 50-100kg and add about 50kg to the ball