Up plating? How about down plating?

[LittleGreyCat]

How practical is it to down plate to 3500 kg?
Probably pretty easy if plated around 3700 kg but how about 4000 kg or more.
If you can increase from 3500 presumably you can go the other way assuming that the unladen weight is below 3500 and still leaves some payload.
Anyone done this?

 

[Lenny HB]

A few have done it, you just need a weighbridge ticket to show you have enough payload to operate below 3500kg, no need for an engineers report like you need when uprating.

 

[LittleGreyCat]

Of course it has to be legal to drive to the weighbridge.
So needs someone with a big vehicle licence.

 

[Tombola]

get one of your older relations on the job

 

[LittleGreyCat]

get one of your older relations on the job

My older relations are almost all dead.
From old age.

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[Derek’soldvan]

I down plated because I don’t have grandfather rights licence, it’s a paper exercise if it’s been up plated.
I had enough payload to enable this, although, I can get “close to the mark” & do need to watch what I put in.
If you need to then carefully consider it or think about a change of van if you’ve got to make too many compromises

 

[dunnah01]

Could be a more common process if you live in one of the new LEZs

 

[68c]

How practical is it to down plate to 3500 kg?
Probably pretty easy if plated around 3700 kg but how about 4000 kg or more.
If you can increase from 3500 presumably you can go the other way assuming that the unladen weight is below 3500 and still leaves some payload.
Anyone done this?

Mine was sold as 3400kg, then someone up plated to 3700kg, we downplated it to 3500kg. Weighbridge showed weight with full fuel, no personal effects, driver or water was 3000kg. So under 3050kg unladen so can drive at 70mph.

 

[Barclaybasher]

I downplated from 3850kg about a year ago, just filled in the section on the V5 and sent a pic of the 3500kg plate under the bonnet

 

[Fdhadi]

Could be a more common process if you live in one of the new LEZs

Believe it or not, some motorhomes are better off being over 3.5t for most of the LEZ zones. Ours being one of them.

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[sonar]

Mine was sold as 3400kg, then someone up plated to 3700kg, we downplated it to 3500kg. Weighbridge showed weight with full fuel, no personal effects, driver or water was 3000kg. So under 3050kg unladen so can drive at 70mph.

I bought it was 3400. Was going to up plate to 3700. But found out loaded was 3400 so up plating now to just 3500.
as you did

 

[pappajohn]

Of course it has to be legal to drive to the weighbridge.
So needs someone with a big vehicle licence.

Legally yes, but I reckon there's more chance of growing a third arm than getting stopped.