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Could I weigh my Cup accurately using this?

MarkCup

MarkCup

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I've got one at work with 1,000 kgs limit.

If I jacked up my car then let it down with one wheel on the pallet truck, and did that for all four corners then added up the results...would I have an accurate total car weight?

I can't think of a reason why it wouldn't work.

But I still don't think it will somehow :S
 
you'd have the corner weights, so in theory yes.

EDIT; I thought you meant you had 4, then it would work... but doing that you say the car would lean in theory taking a slight bit of weight off of that said side.
 
what? How would putting your car on for of those things weight it? They just move pallets?
 
MarkCup said:
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I've got one at work with 1,000 kgs limit.

If I jacked up my car then let it down with one wheel on the pallet truck, and did that for all four corners then added up the results...would I have an accurate total car weight?

I can't think of a reason why it wouldn't work.

But I still don't think it will somehow :S
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I would have to say no as you should well know.lol. You will be changing weight distribution in the car. If you got four of them however, it will work, or if you could return the car to exactly the same orientation then maybe...
 
Not really unless you could jack the whole car up onto the pallet truck..

Think of it as if u put one leg on it and weighed your self, then the other i wouldnt come out correct would it :dapprove: as your shifting your body weight.
 
Find a place that does waste disposals, skips, etc...they use weighbridges!!! That would be the best way, but finding one that would be willing...now there's a challenge!
 
How about if I jack up each corner and drop it onto a pallet. Then one by one, took a pallet out of each corner, before putting it back on the pump track up at the same height as the other 3 pallets before reading the weight?

That would work wouldn't it?
 
it would work if when one wheel was on the pallet truck the other three wheels are the same level
 
Mark i wouldnt recomend that.

You will almost certianly crush brakelines and the exhaust.
 
Eh?

I'm letting each tyre back down onto the pump truck using my trolley jack and the usual jacking points each time...the tyre's the only bit in contact with the truck.
 
I work for a company that has a weigh bridge, I'll sit my Cup on it and get a weight.... i'll have to remove the sub first though, LOL
 
you's need to sit the chassis rails on e a palet and try jaking it from the middle, inless oyu had two and put one set of wheels on each and lift it at the same time. that should give you the total weight, i know a guy who wighed his saxo on the morrisons sissor lift ( we didnt have a loadign bay so had a sissor liftwhich lifted about 4 feet and could fit 2 pallets and trucks on and it had a weigh gauge on it, cant remember the read out though. but once he was on he couldnt get out the car lol the doors wouldnt open becuas eo fthe safety rails, so he weighed himself and after lol.

had a thought
jack one end and put a pallet between the wheep base, and put 4 bricks on each corner of the pallet, so the jacking ridge should sit on the bricks when you bring it down if yours is low enough, but once you start to use the truck it should lift it a couple more inches enought o take the weight off the suspention.

found a flaw in my plan the pallet its self is only wood and crap wood at that, so iti'd break. dambit i thought i was onto something.
 
When I went to see a mate racing at Silverstone I weighed my car on the platform they use. Just ask they normally let you!
 
Interesting thoughts.

I'm going to give it a go.

If all 4 corners add up to anything close to 980 kgs then it works.

I'm hopeful for 950 though - might have to lose a door card next.
 
MarkCup said:
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I've got one at work with 1,000 kgs limit.

If I jacked up my car then let it down with one wheel on the pallet truck, and did that for all four corners then added up the results...would I have an accurate total car weight?

I can't think of a reason why it wouldn't work.

But I still don't think it will somehow :S
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No, you can't weigh your car one wheel at a time. Because of the springs and the anti-roll bars and the body rigidity transfer weight between the corners. Think about it. If you jack up the front right wheel the whole right hand side of the car gets lifted off the ground, so the jack must be lifting about 500 kgs. Do the same at the rear right. Another 500 kgs. The rear left. Another 500 kgs. The front left. Another 500 kgs. Your car weights 2 tonnes? No.

You could weigh the front of the car and the rear and add them together and get pretty close to the right answer.
 
Our local dump has a weigh thing, surely you could walk in one of them with a tenner as a sweetner for one of the blokes there if its an accurate readout, no-one decent will say no if you wave a £10 under there nose for 30 secs work..
 
Our weighbridge is calibrated to +/- 30kg @ full load. And it weighs 30 tonne lorries. lol. I'll stick my FF onit if they'll let me, but I'm worried I might break it.
 
We have 2 public Weigh Bridges near me. Costs you between £7 and £14 to put your car on it.

I knew someone that worked on one and did it with a few cars, the factory weights are not all that accurate to be fair.
 
Nah, I'm going to bring my trolley jack in and have a go with it propped up on pallets.

That has to work.

If it didn't, no-one would pay £800 + VAT for a set of these - which is in effect what I'm replicating.

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As saner said, aren't there accurate weigh bridges at the track that you could use?
 
Tried a weighbridge, it gave erroneous results - no way my car weighs 1,240 kgs.

Can't be bothered with trying to find another weighbridge. I walk past our weighing pallet truck 20 times a day, and I've got stacks of pallets at my disposal - plus a couple of warehouse bodies to help me do the weighing :approve:

So for one hour's effort, I could have a result accurate enough to rival expensive bespoke scales like the one's in my previous post.
 
I'd imagine if you measured the car four times with the pallet truck under a different wheel each time and with all four wheels as close to the same height as possible then the reading should be quite accurate!
 
you could prob rent a few more pump trunks (or what ever they are called) for a day for abou£50 and lift each corner with one at the same time. if you dont mind renting them
 
get ur cup down the nearest scrap yard, they should have scales big enough to just roll ur car on. :)
 
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