Oh dear, I’m overweight

Then try to shift as much as possible weight to the front. Otherwise you cant use the full 4000 kg .
And assuming the tyres to be LI 112/ maxload 1120kg makes max allowed axleload 2240kg . Hope they wont be difficult about the 10 kg missing then, but am afraid they will be.

Your first weighing was F1600 R1850.
Plus 250 kg .
Assuming F 1700kg and rear2250kg in the end, makes 3950kg, so not fully used max permissable vehicle weight of 4100kg new.
Probably enaugh for you.
 
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My converted bus went down, when I finished it and had it registered as a motor home (hgv). Was £240 , dropped to £165 ?
 
In Holland , where I Live, the roadtax is related to the empty-weight of the vehicle.
And as motorhome checked and approved , you pay 1/4 of tax .
I dont know how this is in England, but if also empty weight for tax, this has not chanched, so no more tax in new situation.

But make me wiser, always ready to learn.
 
Once you go over 3500 you are classed as Private Heavy Goods vehicle and the roadtax is only £165pa. Compared to £265pa for me under 3500. Save £100pa but have lower speed limits on occasion, but if you drive sensibly they won’t be an issue.
 
to give an idea, when we had a fiat ducato , max 3100kg , empty weight administatively 2400 kg , we payed 504 euro a year.
a not motorhome would do then 4 times that is 2016 euro a year.
a "little bit ' more then you pay , even that reduced 504 euro.
 
I have just lightened the load on my rear axle by 132kgs....that equates to 3 lead acid batteries, 1 jack and some metal brackets that have been there for ages. I have replaced them with 2x100 amp lithium batteries weighing in at 27kgs for the two.i am now running on 16in alloys with 215/75/16in rated 116/114 + air suspension.Really must take it down to the weighbridge and get it weighed .
 
SimonM
How did you get on checking tyres?
With that rear axle capacity you'll probably need 118 load index.
I found that the best solution was Michelin who do 225-75-16 in a Camping tyre.
Unfortunately I messed up my order with KwikFit and ended up with Agilis van tyre fitted and used before I realised.
They are a 10 ply rating so good for sustained load.
I've not noticed any downside to not being a camper tyre and will probably never change them given expected life and annual mileage.
But I will be more careful when I replace the fronts as I'm prepared to believe that there will be benefits in ride quality, noise and handling.
 
To my opinion a CP tyre ( Camping pneu),campertire is mainly a marketing thing, they are not that much different as C(omercial)-tyres.
And you already noticed no important difference( @ markd) .
Even mostly a CP tyre is D-load/8PR so maximum load AT 65 or 69/70 psi, though they mostly give 80 psi maximum cold pressure .
Except the Continental group gives both reference ( that AT 65 or 69/70 psi) and the maximum inflation pressure ( = maxcold) of 10 psi higher). And then the tyremaker allows higher pressure then mostly written behind AT , wich they dont allow anymore for C-tires ( if not given maxcold on sidewall) , in earlyer days they did.
Now rear axle is often overloaded( forbidden but you must be realistic), and so needs higher pressure then behind AT. And the CP and C-group tires allow that higher pressure , so youu better use that to cover that overloading, but tyremaker does not support that higher loadcapacity then maximum load .

Mind that valves and rimms must also be allowed that higher cold pressure , normal rubber snapp in valves only upto 65 or 70 psi cold pressure and there are standards for howmuch higher pressure it may get , this is for temperature rising when warmed up by driving or other factors.
The HP snapp-in valves of the TR600 series are tested for about 95 psi cold pressure so are allowed for 80 psi cold of CP and 10 pr.
You can check if normal rubber , push valve gently from the side, if it bends its a normal snapp in valve, if not its a HP valve( metal goes troug to the end . And metal valves can be recocnised because they are metal, and are tested for 10bar/145psi and up.

Information about rimms are harder to get.

The brands I collected that are part of Continetal-group and give both pressures.
Continental
Vanco
Semperit
Barum
Viking
Uniroyal
But if you see those double pressures given, google the brand, and fat chance that it is also in the Continental-group.
Viking tyre with max inflation
Viking tyre with 65 psi behind 107/105R

That sise 225/75R16 is exeption to the rule 10PR/E-load with AT 5.25 bar/77psi .

Once wrote an American tire engeneer, that posts a lot on American fora as Tireman9 about this sise.
In short 10PR C-tire in this sise Load-index 118 At 5.25bar/77psi.
And LT E-load LI 115 AT 80 psi/5.5bar, so lower maxload for higher pressure.
He wrote back that some sises have given a load-index in the past that does not fit in to the official calculation used, and this is one of them.
If now 10pr is to high given maxload or E-load given "to" low,so wich is ecact to mother natures law right, I don't know.
Can sent you the mail-contact if you give me a personal message with your E-mail adress.
Then give it cripted like this( so you can also mail me direct using it) , my mail-adress is at hotmail.com with username jadatis( spamm machines cant combine this way , you can).
 
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Continental tech department will advise best tyre pressures for your van/axle leadings. They came back to me saying 4.5 bar would be best on the new Four Season tyres which is what I was running on the old Vanco tyres
 
Am I right to think that as the unladen is not being altered the speed limits applying to the van are the same as a car?
I'm thinking of upgrading the weight limit on my 2016 Autocruise Forte but wouldn't want to be subject to lower speed limits lol

Col
 
If unladen weight is over 3050kg then speed limits are reduced to 50mph on single c"ways and 60 on duals - just like basic vans such as transits or even the smaller non 'car derived' vans. Which are not as obvious as you might think - there are a lot of vans that look very similar to the car model that aren't cdv.
Quite a nightmare for fleet managers to explain to their users - hence the blanket stickers you may see inside them.
Disappointingly a lot of hire companies don't advise on the reduced limits.
 
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UK speed limits for vehicles registered with body type Motor Caravan have nothing to do with MGW. The speed limit is related to the Unladen Weight, 3050kg Unladen Weight and below it is the same as for cars. Above 3050kg Unladen Weight and it is 50/60 70 for Single / Dual /Motorways. The rules for vans and cdv's are completely different.
 
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Am I right to think that as the unladen is not being altered the speed limits applying to the van are the same as a car?
I'm thinking of upgrading the weight limit on my 2016 Autocruise Forte but wouldn't want to be subject to lower speed limits lol

Col
If you can demonstrate with some form of documentation that the Unladen Weight is 3050kg or less then Yes.

As an aside the UK speed limit for vehicles is stipulated in the Road traffic act 1984 Schedule 6 Part 1. If it is NOT in the table then the National Speed Limit for the class of road applies e.g. A passenger vehicle, motor caravan or dual-purpose vehicle not drawing a trailer being a vehicle with an unladen weight NOT exceeding 3·05 tonnes or adapted to carry more than 8 passengers: .
A passenger vehicle, motor caravan or dual-purpose vehicle not drawing a trailer being a vehicle with an unladen weight exceeding 3·05 tonnes or adapted to carry more than 8 passengers:MDS
(i) if not exceeding 12 metres in overall length706050
(ii) if exceeding 12 metres in overall length606050
 
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