Thanks for clarifying SW, glad I had the wrong end of that stick because you've brought a lot of good info into this discussion; all the technical stuff most of us don't know where to find. You mention a weighbridge in there somewhere. In addressing some of our fleet cars (when the place I worked still used Troopies) we realised that we were already above GVM before we even put a person in them. And that was just with steel roof racks, aftermarket bars & tools. I reckon most grey nomads would get a shock if they went over the weighbridge - maybe most of them already know...
D4D: people with highly stressed, obese 4wds that haven't fallen apart aren't lucky at all, cos they live in cities. well maybe not entirely true but its folks who use heavily corrugated or rough roads on a regular basis that cop it. Place a can of spaghetti on your coffee table, no problem. Now try throwing it. Actually my first prado was a second hand ex-city car. Looked like a real bush car with its giant ARB bar, steel roof rack, OME raised suspension, etc etc It had 150,000km on it when I bought it in practically showroom condition. 10,000km later it was starting to crack. When I sold after driving it for 60,000km the thing had well and truly self destructed. That was one of the early ARB jobs where the squash the body/chassis mount - imbeciles.
http://s1077.photobucket.com/albums/...rado%20cracks/
D4D: people with highly stressed, obese 4wds that haven't fallen apart aren't lucky at all, cos they live in cities. well maybe not entirely true but its folks who use heavily corrugated or rough roads on a regular basis that cop it. Place a can of spaghetti on your coffee table, no problem. Now try throwing it. Actually my first prado was a second hand ex-city car. Looked like a real bush car with its giant ARB bar, steel roof rack, OME raised suspension, etc etc It had 150,000km on it when I bought it in practically showroom condition. 10,000km later it was starting to crack. When I sold after driving it for 60,000km the thing had well and truly self destructed. That was one of the early ARB jobs where the squash the body/chassis mount - imbeciles.
http://s1077.photobucket.com/albums/...rado%20cracks/
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