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Quote: Originally posted by Grampian91 on 19/3/2013

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Is it a calibrated gauge or a cheap one which falls apart?

A guy at my storage yard was trying to get his noseweight right. But everytime he tried the gauge he got a different reading.

Whilst checking to see if it was sticking it fell apart.

Noseweight should be close to but not exceeding the max for the hitch or max for the car whichever is lowest.

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If it's a Milenco noseweight gauge then you have the best on the market to which they retail around £32 brand new. Regarding the noseweight, it isn't the caravan so much that you have to worry but more the towcar. If you have a vehicle handbook it should give you a recommended towball weight because rear springs can be stronger than other vehicles plus it's calculated regarding the rear overhang from the rear axle and the limit regarding the lift of the front end of the towcar. When you find out what the figure is then the advice is to aim for that target weight as this creates stabilty providing the caravan is loaded right. If you don't know the towball weight of the car then provide some details of the towcar and I can most probably find out. Below are some details from the Milenco website with information regarding their noseweight gauge.

http://www.milenco.com/products/noseweight-gauge/

Quote: Originally posted by johnjory on 20/3/2013

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"Is it a calibrated gauge or a cheap one which falls apart?...."

A Nose weight Gauge is a nicety which you don't really need.

Place a length of wood under the coupling head and put the other end on your bathroom scales.

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Quote: Originally posted by johnjory on 20/3/2013

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"Is it a calibrated gauge or a cheap one which falls apart?...."

A Nose weight Gauge is a nicety which you don't really need.

Place a length of wood under the coupling head and put the other end on your bathroom scales.

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Our Avondale always weighs nose heavy, and our spare wheel is right over the axel, gas bottle is in a side locker reasonably central.

we have to put the awning slightly behind the axel to get it to correct nose weight. while i know this is not great, we are at a loss as to what else to do.

i know i will probably be abused for even writing this but i am genuinely asking for advice.

I don't think it is too much of a problem if the awning is just slightly behind the axle, we used to struggle to get our noseweight down on our Sterling Europa and ended up travelling with the spare wheel in the boot of the car and not in the front locker.