camper how heavy?

**bigcarle** · 28th April 2011, 07:08 AM

i bought a Castle Camper trailer not long back and have been out in it a couple of times now.
i am just curious as to the weight of some of the camper trailers?
mine on the rego papers says 600KG and i guesstimate with other gear 750KG all up

, which the 300TDi works well but knows its there, i had imagined it would be more like towing a box trailer

.
i have read a thread in the forum about a camper that weighed 1200KG

and i thought that made mine look light so hence the question at the start of the thread
how much do some of these camper trailers weigh??

**wouldbeowner** · 28th April 2011, 07:13 AM

I had a FULLY off road soft floor one that was 990kg dry and approaching 1500kg fully laden (included 180kg liquid, 2 batteries and 2 spare tyres). The vehicle I had at the time (2.9l CRD auto transmission) managed to tow it bottom to top up the telegraph track without any issue at all.

**vnx205** · 28th April 2011, 08:06 AM

I know you didn't ask about slide-on campers, but one of the advantages I saw in having a slide-on rather than a trailer is that my Trayon weighs about 360 kg empty.

I believe that some of those slide-ons that look like a caravan with no wheels weigh about twice that much.

**tas130** · 28th April 2011, 04:56 PM

we just bought a camprite trailer on the weekend and it has a tare of 845kg on the rego papers

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 28th April 2011, 05:19 PM

mine was 1200kg,,,,

empty.

**cewilson** · 28th April 2011, 06:02 PM

Our Trak Shak is just over 1000kg loaded. The electric brakes make a big difference.

Our Defender is running the 200tDi and I've had no issue towing it anywhere (and I mean anywhere), although it can be a tad slow up decent hills.

Cheers
Chris

**mechanic2you** · 28th April 2011, 06:19 PM

Hi

My camper says on the rego papers that it weighs 950kg but suspect it mat weigh up to 1200kg (will have to put it over the weigh bridge)

**bigcarle** · 29th April 2011, 07:26 AM

thanks so far for the replies, gee mine looks like a light one so far.
i should say mine has the water tank, kitchen, semi-off road suspension and big tool box on it (these are extras for the Castle Camper) and the tent is 13ft X 17ft.
the 300TDi goes a little slow with it on the back but then again i don't bury the right foot to far either, return around 26mpg

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 29th April 2011, 01:46 PM

Hey bigcarle,,
Christmas 2000 with the camper on,, Toowoomba to Bundaberg, 400kays in 4 hours,,

It took 92 litres,,,,

**justinc** · 29th April 2011, 08:21 PM

JC's Rangie

At post #24, This is mine, a full body Cape York Trailer type 3. Tare is 850kg, Loaded would be a bit close to 1200 at least. Easy to tow, but steep hills behind a Tdi auto is a bit of a struggle

(behind a 4bd1 turbo in RRC is no problems at all

)

JC

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