Atchafalaya_man wrote:
The 'brochure weight' was 2900 pounds. A sticker inside a cabinet door reads:
"Camper weight is 3324 Maximum when it contains standard equipment, 46 gallons of water, 56 pounds bottled gas, 6 cubic feet refrigerator. Consult Owners Manual (or data sheet as applicable) for weights of additional or optional equipment."
Other stickers reads in part:
"Camper weight is ....3707 pounds with factory installed optional equipment in excess of 20 pounds. This weight does not include equipment under 20 pounds...... Consult data sheet....bla bla."
Dealer installed two batteries (110 pounds) plus who knows what for a possible admitted to, 3957 pounds.
We added solar panels, carpet, folding steps, shelving mods, etc. and only then did we load bottled water, pots/pans, clothes and food, etc.
Our current Lance 1181 claims to be about 3600 pounds 'dry' yet we find the same stickers in the cabinet admitting to 4690 pounds before we we add our things to reach the 5200 at which it scales.
Different brands may do it differently so weigh up, fess up. :)
While we were camper shopping, I ignored any and all brochure dry weights. I only used wet camper specific weights for comparison. It was often a pain getting the dealer or owner to go actually look for the wet weight label. Many never knew there was one. We got lots of "oh, it about XXXX pounds" (wrong) or they would quote the brochure. If they wouldn't go look we moved on.
