Towing weights for GQ - puzzled, what's the go?

[pearcey]

My GQ is fitted with a Hayman Reese bar and the compliance plate reads Max tow rating 2500 Kgs
Max ball weight 120 Kgs. Had my van weighted and it turned in at 1850 Kgs and the ball weight was 90 Kgs
which is about where it should be. 5% is the figure the yanks use and there trailers tow a lot better than ours

[89gqpatrol4x4]

GQ 4.2 diesel lwb can tow 2500kg braked.

[monty]

Hi and thanks so far for replies. So far we have manual towing capacity of 3.2T and another of 2.5T...oh well...In any case I need to get t/bar examined as I think it might be H/Reese but not certain - the plate attached is completely unreadable now. Anyway thanks for clarifying the ball weigh/GCM stuff; that helps to keep that in mind when I start looking at vans, especially the way they sit and single v dual axle. Cheers all

[BillsGU]

Last year we had a guest speaker from RTA (or whatever they are called this week) at our 4WD Club meeting. We asked him all these questions and many more and he could not answer most of them! This is still a grey area. He did say that (in NSW anyway), the braked towing weight for a vehicle was 1.5 times the unladen weight of the vehicle. When we asked what if the manufacturer has a higher figure, is this weight legal? again he had no answer.

When are we ever going to get uniform Australia wide road laws that are easy to understand and actually work?

[Robo]

are all state the same now , ie if you comply in qld , do you comply across the country ?

Gaddy

My brother inlaw just sold his 80 series yota and bought a 2013 ford ranger, as QLD have recently changed laws and he can't tow his c/van up there any more as a result.
mind you it's a bloody big dual axle c/van
"So things have changed".

[Robo]

The fitter a work was telling me we now have what's called east coast Rd rules for trucks to make them uniform.

humm, dont know ,something may of changed for the lighter trucks like patrols,?.
some one know the RTA's fellers number?.

[93patrol]

you have to remember your vehicle brakes as well the GQ's have smaller disks and calipers than the GU's so their braking isnt as good. My gq td42 ute had all the stickers down the side of the drivers door hope this helps

[Robo]

Humm Early GQ front single piston caliper is 2.5t.
so what about late model dual piston caliper models, has tow capacity increased also?.

[93patrol]

Probably would have but only to 3t at the most