Unloaded vehicle weight?

garywg58 wrote:
Hello all. We are picking up our 2014 Thor Hurricane 32A next week and have a question about weights. The Certificate of Origin for a Vehicle, from Thor, says the "shipping weight" is 15,522. Is that the Unloaded Vehicle Weight?

The manual says the following:

Unloaded Vehicle Weight (UVW) is the weight of this motor home as

manufactured at the factory with full fuel, engine oil, and coolants.

I don't want to subtract the weight of the full, 6 lbs/gal x 80 gals = 480 lbs. twice in determining the carrying capacity.

I will be lucky in that I can weight it on a scale right after we take delivery, and it will have minimal stuff in it, not including ourselves. So I can see what that weight is, subtract the weights of all the fluids and us, and see how close that is to the above figure.

Thanks.

G Man

All you need for an idea of CCC, is to subtract the listed UVW from the fully loaded weight, so you need to load the coach to the hilt, along with adding in people weights, so that you can compare such with the listed GVWR. This is also required, so you can properly air up the tires according to an inflation chart and if like me, adding a 10-15psi cushion for all the variables. Now subtract this loaded figure from the GCWR, so you'll know what your towing capacity is and just in case you have a toad or other.