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<blockquote data-quote="Dihusky" data-source="post: 434479" data-attributes="member: 10304"><p>You've raised an important point about many of the campers, the distance between wheels and hitch. </p><p></p><p>A major issue common to may campers is that most of the load that is added prior to a trip sits in front of the axle and this plays merry hell with the weight on the hitch. We had a MDC Cape York, great camper but we discovered when we loaded it up for the first big trip, the hitch load ended up exceeding the tug's allowable hitch weight by almost 100kg, so we had to do some serious mods to bring this down.</p><p></p><p>When the manufacturers quote hitch loads of around 175kg before you add the fridge, food, beer, gas bottles, firewood, etc etc, the hitch weight climbs fast and many of this style of camper ends up overloading the tug's hitch.</p><p></p><p>The Police and Inspectors are very aware of this and are now targeting overloading, particularly in peak season and a recent combined event in Vic discovered that something like 60% of caravans, campers etc were overloaded.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dihusky, post: 434479, member: 10304"] You've raised an important point about many of the campers, the distance between wheels and hitch. A major issue common to may campers is that most of the load that is added prior to a trip sits in front of the axle and this plays merry hell with the weight on the hitch. We had a MDC Cape York, great camper but we discovered when we loaded it up for the first big trip, the hitch load ended up exceeding the tug's allowable hitch weight by almost 100kg, so we had to do some serious mods to bring this down. When the manufacturers quote hitch loads of around 175kg before you add the fridge, food, beer, gas bottles, firewood, etc etc, the hitch weight climbs fast and many of this style of camper ends up overloading the tug's hitch. The Police and Inspectors are very aware of this and are now targeting overloading, particularly in peak season and a recent combined event in Vic discovered that something like 60% of caravans, campers etc were overloaded. [/QUOTE]
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