Weight calculations for ClassA
Looking at a nice class A motorhome that I think was built marginally too heavy for the chassis that's it's on. UVW=20605, GVW=22000 and GCVW=26000. My Chevy equinox that I want to tow weighs almost 4...
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wtmtnhiker wrote:
Looking at a nice class A motorhome that I think was built marginally too heavy for the chassis that's it's on. UVW=20605, GVW=22000 and GCVW=26000. My Chevy equinox that I want to tow weighs almost 4000.
Unless I'm figuring wrong we have 1400 lbs we can put in the coach rounded up from 1395 (GVW-UVW). Between my wife and I we weigh 300 so now we have 1100. I do allot of dry camping so a full tank (70 gal) of fresh water would be 560 leaving 540 and a full tank of propane (19.5 gal) would be 157 leaving 383 I can put in the coach. I'm thinking 383 wouldn't be enough with food, clothes, tools, etc. Do I have this right?
I'm not familiar with the abbreviation "GVW"; mostly I see it expressed as GVWR or "Gross Vehicle Weight Rating." Assuming, however, that the two are the same, then yes, it looks like your calculation is correct. That does seem surprisingly low (more like Class C capacities, rather than Class A). We travel very light, even for extended trips, but even for us, we load up with more than 383 pounds of "stuff."
Very interesting,
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