Weights on vin plate

[Shaun929]

Just had full air suspension fitted on my Malibu and was thinking of up lifting the weights on the the v5.
On the V5 it shows it has a 4250kg but have found a Vin plate in the door well showing it has a 4400kg with line 1 at 2100kg and line 2 at 2500kg. I am unsure which will be correct, anyone got any ideas why these will be different?

 

[Two on Tour]

Your line 1 is the max weight you can have on your front axle and line 2 is the max weight you can have on your rear axle and the 4400Kg is the overall max weight you can have for your entire vehicle, so you can see that you can not have both your front and rear axles to their max load at the same time. If your have your rear axle loaded to it's max of 2500Kg the the max you can load your front axle to will be 1900Kg.

The DVLA has a habit of not having the correct weight on the V5, I had to have them correct my V5 after I had our van up-plated when they sent the V5 back with the wrong weight.

 

[Carpmart]

Line 1 is your front axle load limit, line two is you rear axle and the cumulative (not mathematically of course) is the combined maximum weigh

 

[Langtoftlad]

...and of course if the air suspension was a retro-fit you 'might' have increase axle permitted maximums.
SVTech is usually your first port of call to discuss options

 

[tonka]

Just had full air suspension fitted on my Malibu and was thinking of up lifting the weights on the the v5.
On the V5 it shows it has a 4250kg but have found a Vin plate in the door well showing it has a 4400kg with line 1 at 2100kg and line 2 at 2500kg. I am unsure which will be correct, anyone got any ideas why these will be different?

The one from Carthago will be the revelant one as its the convertors and will be issues after the original vehicle. So if the door well states 4400 and the dealer has registered it wrong..

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[Shaun929]

I have had this van from new and I was told it has a payload of 4250kg and this is correct to the V5 but I think the one in the door well is the Fiat one showing it at 4400kg so will this one be wrong because it is not from Carthago?

 

[nicholsong]

The VIN plates fitted by the chassis builder, the converter and, if applicable, Alko will all be date stamped. The latest date is the one applicable.

If stopped for a weight test the DVSA and any other authority will go by the VIN plate regardless of what the DVLA have put on the V5(often a fictitious document written by a student temporarily employed, from unemployment)

[Question for those in the know, if Alko can issue a VIN plate for their modification, why cannot air suspension modifiers do the same? Maybe they need authorisation from presumably DVSA and do not want to go through the process.]

Geoff