I weighed my TDV6 this afternoon and found that I can't tow my caravan with what I normally carry, which isn't much! It was 2800 (1540 on rear axle) with full tank, my 82kg wife and 200kg of stuff that I normally carry, including a second spare. compressor, tools and recovery gear etc. I also was astounded and have been spending all afternoon looking into what the extra weight is above the weight in the specs of 2160 not including fuel or driver. So much for the extra payload of the TDV6! With me and my wife in the car I have 120kg left for the 260kg TBW from my caravan.
The main extras that weigh a lot that I have found are the panoramic sun roof (could be up to 100kg), side steps (around 50kg), dual battery and radio, probably around 50kg, 275 tyres x 5, say 25kg above standard. I also think the tow bar must not be included in the spec weight, despite them being standard in Australia. Still short of a couple of hundred kg I reckon, so I am going to a different weighbridge to see what happens.
I also have a wheel weight scale, which seems to read at least 10% high. I used that to weigh the rear wheels and with adjustments for the inaccuracy I got a rear axle load of 1541, so perhaps the weighbridge value of 1540 is correct.
It just goes to show that 200 series with much less payload than a RRV and then bull bar, large wheels, suspension lift and drawers etc added must be way over loaded when towing if they don't have a GVM upgrade.
Edit 11/6/20: I just went to a second weighbridge and the weight was 2790, so almost identical to the other weighbridge, unfortunately.
