How to weigh your car?

[knore]

Ive generally used the specified weight to determine what a car weighs, but i was wondering if there is somewhere you can actually get your car weighed properly?

First that comes to mind is just going to a council dump where you drive up onto the weigh bridge :wassup: then just subtract your weight from the cars

Considering this is like $10 ide say it would be the cheapest, and im fairly sure its accurate to 1 KG

[predator]

Weigh bridge. But yeah, i am curious too..

If you go let me know and i'll come also

Where else can you find them?

Although this is probably a QLD specific thread.

[Roy]

Most accurate way would be too take it to a susp place as they have coner weight scales to measure the weight under each individual wheel (All 4 are measures at once though)

Weigh bridges are calibrated in 15kg / 20 / 25 / 50 kg increments...whatever it is they arent accurate if you want to know plus/minus 5kg

[Cecam]

As above I think the dump site weigh bridge go in 20kg increments (sp?), but bulk carriers like grain warehouses sometimes have accurate (1kg) scales....

[Greg]

I took my car to ABS for a shock absorber test, and as part of the test they weighed the car - it showed weight on each corner. cost $30 for the test though.

[unwritten law]

are u trying to weigh that big stash in ur boot???

[knore]

Yeh, got a boot full of columbia's finest babby

Ide just like to know the weight of my car,

So whats the list so far:

Dump/Weighbridge

Suspension Shop

The most ide pay for it is $20, all i want is the weight not a fix/tune etc

[red900ss]

Call up whatever QLD calls the traffic authority and ask them where the certified weigh bridges are.

[rb25]

When i rego'ed my car in NSW i just took it to a chicken farm and had it weighed there and the RTA was ok with that. It put me in a lower rego bracket than that stated by the RTA too.

The 33 came in at 1350 and cost 2 VB tallies to weigh.

-rb25

[predator]

was that with you in the car?

I think r33 are a little lighter than people think. Should be able to get it down to a flat 1300kg with a few basic removals (spare, back seat,sub, etc). Most actual readings i have seen have not been up around 1400kg as people make out.

[Jetdat]

i had my datsun weighed for about 15 bucks at a weigh bridge used for trucks...

it seemed very accurate as it matched the figure quoted in the manual...

[rb25]

1350 was with 3/4 tank of petty and the spare/mats/tools/misc pieces of rubbish etc...

[Sumo]

mine was 1430kgs.... maybe mine is a fat pig

Sumo

[Whoneedstherapy]

Geez when my 32 gtr went over the weighbridge to get rego'd for the first time it smacked down 1510kgs with 1/3rd of a tank!

[MM2death]

Weighed my 32 GTS-t at a brick manufacturers own weigh bridge on the weekend. Weighed in at 1.40 tonne. Subtract my weight of 60kg, which equals 1340kg.

Scott

[MM2death]

It cost me nothing as well. It had it's own digital readout. I just went up the the forklift driver and he said go for it.

Scott

[knore]

Ok, well thanks for the info guys

but we still havent found a definitive, accurate and cheap place to weigh our cars.

We need somewhere all of us can rock up and get weights, quick and cheap.

[Sumo]

weigh bridges get tested every couple of years. They get the accreditation so that the weights are official when they weigh trucks... legally it binds them into a contract to deliver X amount of load to the destination.

[predator]

Just have to find a truck weigh station... be nice, pay whatever it is, and whack the car on. Should be plenty about.

I am sure they are pretty quiet most of the time.

[knore]

Ok, so are weigh bridges owned by the council/government or a company?