Bad dealer Advice is he just after a sale???

[Mikey_74]

We're still looking for our van, we've a budget of around £10k I phoned about a van from a dealer we loved the layout, very similar to the Lunar 615 layout with rear end bedroom, bunks coming down the length of the van with a single seater dinner opposite asking about the MTPLW and he wouldn't tell me, he said in all his years he's never bothered with this weight, it the miro I should be considering, the laughed and siad if you're going to take any more than 70kg's over the miro weight then put the stuff in the car!!!!! I couldn't believe my ears, is it right in what he's saying or is he just after the sale, he strikes me as the kind of dealer that would sell a 25ft twin axle van to somebody with anything bigger than a Ford Focus

 

[Mikey_74]

Sorry should have added, surely by the time you've added a couple of gas bottles, battery and awning surely that'd be getting close to 70kg or are these type of things included in the miro weights???

 

[TD42]

the answer to this is the MIRO is without anything at all in the van.the weight difference in the MIRO & the MTPLM is the total payload of the van,& weight of ,battery,gas bottles,mover,ect must be deducted from this payload figuer before loading the van with cloths,water carriers,pots pans ect.

If the MIRO were the only weight to consider you could easily fall foul of the legal max tow load of your vehicle,& possibley the gross train weight if all your equipment were put in the car

In short the salesman was telling porky's or a complete idiot

 

[Martin24]

I think I would be going elsewhere!!!

 

[marlot]

The max weight definately matters to someone who passed their test after 1997 - following his advice they could well be towing illegally

 

[Glenn_5132962]

The guys an idiot. I physically weighed everything that came out of my old van before I sold it & I had over 200kg payload accounting for everything including clothes and food for 4. If I carried the kids bikes & awning thats another 50kg. Lots of little things add up. I fact I was probably over the MTPLM at times in blissful ignorance & the van was not obviously overloaded (ie it didnt look cluttered when packed for a holiday). My advice would be to always buy a van with a lower MTPLM than your car is capable of towing & then weigh stuff as you load it up to make sure you dont exceed the payload allowance.