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Subject Topic: Nose wight recommendation swift 500 Post Reply Post New Topic
02/7/2012 at 1:38pm
 Location: N. Yorkshire
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Hi there we have just bought a new to us swift 500 year 2005. Our car has a max nose weight of 80 kg, can anyone let me know what the nose wight of the van should be for the optimum ratio....many thanks in advance

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02/7/2012 at 4:40pm
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Depends how accurate the scales are that you use or used.

As close to 80kg as you can get.

Its recommended that you get 7% of the caravans weight. You dont say what caravan you have and its gross weight but figures i have for the 500 models are well over your limit at 7%.

7% would be in excess of 100kg.

So load as close to 80kg as you can get. If you use the caravan noseweight gauges, Make sure its a calibrated one. The others are not very accurate.




02/7/2012 at 5:01pm
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HI it's A swift challenger 500 series...if that helps


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02/7/2012 at 5:03pm
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And it's max load weight is about 1449

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