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Its amazing just how it all tots up, have a butchers at this

Just for the record the empty weight of my is excludluding the spare wheel,gas bottle and battery. This was clarrified by coachman.

if your unsure take your carvan to a weight bridge and weigh it leave the battery in, that should give you your start weight then you'll know exactly what you,ve got to play with. as the sheet above shows it's very easy to tot the weight up.

i took my van to a weigh bridge before we went on holiday once and found we were 70kg over and that was before i planned to put 4 bikes in. The promted the sheet and a bike rack

Bessie    

Thats my point my list is at 138 kg with out clothes and as we holiday in this country its 4 x warm weather stuff and 4 x artic clothes.The 10kg of food is just tinned food ie beans soup hotdogs so no real meals.

Bessie   

The unladen weight excludes both, with so many types of batteries and gas bottles the manufactures would only be guessing

Bessie   

I'd actually weigh your bikes aswell as you'll be shocked at just how heavy they can get

Bessie

  I Had old roof bars cut them to fit between seats and put cycle carriers on them. Put in the 2 boys bikes 2 bungey straps and away you go.

I used this as a basic guide and found it very useful:

http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/articles/view.asp?id=14

The only way to be absolutely sure how much everything weighs is to invest in a good set of scales and literally weigh everything you put in the van.

To double check, I would suggest going to a local weighbridge to double check the weights as if you are over the vans MTPLM and get pulled by the police you can get into some serious bother and you also invalidate your insurance and any warrenty, which wouldn't be a good start to your holiday!