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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

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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

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

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.

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