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Payload Remaining

The plate gives you a maximum; the family, the luggage, the roof box and the caravan's nose all take a bite out of it. Add them up here before the weighbridge does it for you.

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Payload · v1.0

Plate minus everything you load

From the plate or the V5C / COC

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EU documents include one 75 kg driver; most handbook kerb weights do not.

What gets in and on

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Model default 75 kg; children pull it down, adults in coats push it up.
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Zero if nothing is hitched. Set it properly here.
85kg payload remaining

Inside the plated maximum

    Plate figures and loads are yours; the only assumptions are the 75 kg driver inside an EU mass in running order and a 50 kg margin below which the result is flagged tight. Axle limits are not modelled: a nose-heavy load can be under the MAM and over the rear axle.

    Where the kilos go

    Payload is a subtraction nobody does until the fine. The maximum authorised mass on the plate is the whole budget. Kerb weight is the car with fluids and, on EU paperwork, one 75 kg driver already sitting in it. What remains has to cover every other person, every bag, whatever is on the roof, and the downward push of a trailer on the towball. A modern estate with 550 kg of payload loses 225 kg to three passengers, 120 kg to luggage, 45 kg to a roof box and 75 kg to a caravan nose, and arrives at the campsite with 85 kg to spare.

    Vans and motorhomes live closer to the line. The 3 500 kg ceiling is a licence boundary, so converted vans are built right up to it, and water, gas, bikes and a full fridge come out of a few hundred kilos. The honest method is a loaded weighbridge ticket once, then this sheet before every trip.

    What the tool does not do

    Axle limits are separate figures on the plate and a nose-heavy load can be under the total while over the rear axle. Fuel is treated as already in the kerb weight (EU convention: 90 % full). Neither is modelled here, on purpose: both need measurements rather than arithmetic.

    FAQ

    It depends on the document. An EU mass in running order includes a 75 kg driver and a 90 % full tank; a UK kerb weight from the handbook usually excludes the driver. The tool asks which figure you have and counts the driver once either way.

    Yes. The nose presses down on the towball, so those kilos count towards the car's maximum authorised mass and its rear axle limit, exactly like luggage in the boot.

    Because the 3 500 kg ceiling is a licence line, converted vans are built up to it. Many leave 300 to 500 kg for people, water, gas, bikes and food; two adults, full tanks and a rack can use all of it. Weigh the vehicle loaded once, then keep this sheet.