Practical Caravan explains noseweight
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Useful and well explained, but I'd add two points:
1. The caravan should be level when you measure the nose weight
2. The Reich TLC (the electronic gauge) is placed into the caravan hitch which is then lowered onto the tow ball.
Do you know your noseweight? Get up to speed with John Wickersham's expert advice!
Very well described. I would like to see a new edition for measuring nose weight of a larger twin axle caravan, where it becomes much more difficult to influence the nose weight of the caravan.
Lovely lovely man! ... the best in advice and straight logical solutions in such a small bite size video.
In Aus, design standards here suggest between 8 and 10% on the ball for stability. Our roads are probably way worse and trips are way longer than yours though.
And many of our caravans are grossly overweight due to archaic construction methods.
Thank you very helpful seeing visuals to explain
Your a top bloke 👍
He should have mentioned that the van coupling should be at the same height as when hooked to the car, or the result will be wrong, possibly significantly. The load gauge on the car towball (3rd method) is fundamentally wrong therefore. All his methods look unstable (he has a job to control that load gauge thing), especially if the handbrake is off as Pete Stothers said, so it is better to put the bathroom scales on the caravan steps and add any more height needed with wooden blocks.
Thanks.
Great video but you forgot to mention the handbrake must be off when measuring nose weight.
Why is that then?
My axel on my micro caravan is about 75% of the way along with the chassis. So the only way to decrease the nose weight is to add 40kg of sandbags at the very rear, just behind the axel. Is this in this case a good idea or would it be better to just run as it is with a very heavy nose weight.
a very knowledgible man he sadly died in 2015 aged 73
I don't get how the car and van should be all the same level as some cars the towball is higher then others...........
High I have 2020 Swift Elegance grande caravan that shows on plate MRO is 1740 and mtplm is 1900kg if i use your calculation of 7% that would mean my nose weight should be no more than 133kg can you tell me if this is right as everyone talks about being between 80kg and 100kg please help.
Good
Just buy a truck and pull it.