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Ausfish Platinum Member
Re: anyone know of any cheap but good 4500kg tow vehicles? please post or pm
you can't exceed the manufacturers maximum towing capacity of a vehicle, unless you have the vehicle engineered to do so by a vehicle engineer and a mod plate fitted or there is no manufacturers recommended. Then you can go 1.5 times the tare.
Here is a list of what can do what
http://www.newcastlerental.com/Vehic...%202012%20.pdf
http://ozhitch.com/wp-content/upload...idenov2007.pdf
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Ausfish Platinum Member
Re: anyone know of any cheap but good 4500kg tow vehicles? please post or pm
this is a good summary (SA but same except for trailer brake wieghts)
https://www.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/...-less-8.14.pdf
can go 1.5 times tare if no gcm or max tow weight specified by manufacturer. Note all this applies to vehicles below 4500 kg GVM. (car license)
As mentioned previously I am working towards an over 4500kg gvm option and will post proof and pics up if successfull shortly
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Ausfish Platinum Member
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Ausfish Platinum Member
Re: anyone know of any cheap but good 4500kg tow vehicles? please post or pm
You'll have the quickest washdown at the ramp
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Ausfish Platinum Member
Re: anyone know of any cheap but good 4500kg tow vehicles? please post or pm
To summarise all I learned for anyone else there are two vehicle bulletins for Qld. (Under review they said) One designed for slightly oversize loads. It's for hang glider trailers, dragon boats, horse floats, boats. To fall under this criteria you have to be below 4.5t, below 4.3m high and under 2.9m wide. If so you can tow with car license provided you don't exceed vehicle manufacturer maximum tow limit. For vehicles under 4500 gvm this is set in stone. So u are limited to old Range Rovers at 4t. Australian f250' s after 2003 (memory a bit hazy). Which has grossly inflated price of these. GMC sierras etc. Imports I think might be limited to 1.5 times gvm. (Didn't go this way so lost interest). Modified six wheelers with secondary manufacturer plate can tow 1.5 times gvm but still might not get to 4.5t. now some 6wheelers specify gvm to 4.5t. allow 22k on top of vehicle for mod.
There's a Lovell 200 series mod to 4t.
Old f350s or anything else without a manufacturers max tow weight can only tow 1.5 times gvm so not enough.
You can then step up to the higher class heavy trailer bulletin which has a max height of 4.6m (I had height issues) and can be wider etc (unsure of limits) with more road and time restrictions (Easter, Christmas, some roads I'm Brisbane) but this was never an option as the tow vehicle must be 4.5 t gvm or over which means truck rego ($2k pa) and a truck license which was unaffordable for me and too restrictive for resale of boat.
Hope this saves someone else some time one day ☺️
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Ausfish Silver Member
Re: anyone know of any cheap but good 4500kg tow vehicles? please post or pm
I like the idea of the truck set up. Beware of the aviation drums, if they are avgas the drums are most likely painted inside and diesel will lift the paint off and will end up in your fuel system. I know this from first hand experience. The paint lining may have changed over the years and it might not lift off anymore. If they are Jet A1 drums then from memory they are OK (I think).
TMC
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