Over weight passengers?
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Seems like a bit of a strange question I know! But I'm having problems here, a friend, who is incredibly overweight (23 stone) wants a ride in my Griff, I think I'm going to have to somehow say no, I'm worried that the extra weight might damage the car in some way, am I right to be worried about this?
I'm 5ft 10 and just under 15 stone, so our all-up weight will be around 38 stone, this can't be good for the car surely?
Anyone else been in a similar situation?
I'm 5ft 10 and just under 15 stone, so our all-up weight will be around 38 stone, this can't be good for the car surely?
Anyone else been in a similar situation?
had to get reinforcing bars put in to stop it happening again.If the car cannot take a couple of 25 stone adults, plus a full boot, then there is something seriously wrong with it.
If you think of the weight of the whole car, then the engine / drive chain / brakes, are not going to be too bothered by carrying an extra 10 stone of weight (above two, say 15 stone passengers). Very surprised about the floor giving up and cannot believe that there was not something wrong with it.
I am not "light" myself and know a couple of other "large / heavy" TVR Owners / driver and have never heard of a problem.
If you think of the weight of the whole car, then the engine / drive chain / brakes, are not going to be too bothered by carrying an extra 10 stone of weight (above two, say 15 stone passengers). Very surprised about the floor giving up and cannot believe that there was not something wrong with it.
I am not "light" myself and know a couple of other "large / heavy" TVR Owners / driver and have never heard of a problem.
BIG DUNC said:
If the car cannot take a couple of 25 stone adults, plus a full boot, then there is something seriously wrong with it.
I'm not being rude here, but 50 stones is 317kg, that's 30% of the car's weight - added - that's a LOT. It'd slow the car down significantly for starters.was8v said:
crikey how to these cars perform in a crash if the seat comes adrift that easily...
The seatbelts are anchored to the chassis and these are the 'safety structure'. In 'modern' cars the seat does form part of the 'safety structure' and is built accordingly.I would be wary of putting such weight on the glassfibre floor too. Whilst it may be more than capable of taking it, the jostling to get in and out may well be the time when damage occurs.
Unless, of course, the sensible decision was taken to add cross members to mount the seats too as part of a chassis refurb.
The floor in both my S3s and the Wedge were damaged aound the seat mounts.
It is a bit of a surprise when you first see how rubbish the standard seat fixing is. In addition the seat itself is not the strongest of things. Would think that most people who have removed the seats will have done something to make it a bit more sturdy after seeing the original offering.
This weight thing is turning out to be quite a problem. As I said, I'm sort of OK, I'm 15 stone, my girlfriend is 17 stone, we are both on diets, but these things take time. That's a total weight between the two of us of 32 stone.
I didn't go out in the car as much as I'd like to have done over the weekend because I couldn't go on my own, I told my girlfriend that we needed the BMW as we had things to carry, it's getting ridiculous.
Worse still, I have another friend coming to stay soon, he's way over weight, about 21 stone, same old story, I'm going to have to make up more excuses.
It's not the cars fault, it's a performance vehicle, it's not supposed to have large people in it. But, saying that, there are a couple of guys in our TVR club that are way bigger than I am, and they take their wives on long trips in their cars so....
I didn't think it would be such an issue, but it's turning out to be so.
I didn't go out in the car as much as I'd like to have done over the weekend because I couldn't go on my own, I told my girlfriend that we needed the BMW as we had things to carry, it's getting ridiculous.
Worse still, I have another friend coming to stay soon, he's way over weight, about 21 stone, same old story, I'm going to have to make up more excuses.
It's not the cars fault, it's a performance vehicle, it's not supposed to have large people in it. But, saying that, there are a couple of guys in our TVR club that are way bigger than I am, and they take their wives on long trips in their cars so....
I didn't think it would be such an issue, but it's turning out to be so.
griff59 said:
This weight thing is turning out to be quite a problem. As I said, I'm sort of OK, I'm 15 stone, my girlfriend is 17 stone, we are both on diets, but these things take time. That's a total weight between the two of us of 32 stone.
I didn't go out in the car as much as I'd like to have done over the weekend because I couldn't go on my own, I told my girlfriend that we needed the BMW as we had things to carry, it's getting ridiculous.
Worse still, I have another friend coming to stay soon, he's way over weight, about 21 stone, same old story, I'm going to have to make up more excuses.
It's not the cars fault, it's a performance vehicle, it's not supposed to have large people in it. But, saying that, there are a couple of guys in our TVR club that are way bigger than I am, and they take their wives on long trips in their cars so....
I didn't think it would be such an issue, but it's turning out to be so.
It's not really, get whoever services it to fit some support bars across the seat mounting points, job done I didn't go out in the car as much as I'd like to have done over the weekend because I couldn't go on my own, I told my girlfriend that we needed the BMW as we had things to carry, it's getting ridiculous.
Worse still, I have another friend coming to stay soon, he's way over weight, about 21 stone, same old story, I'm going to have to make up more excuses.
It's not the cars fault, it's a performance vehicle, it's not supposed to have large people in it. But, saying that, there are a couple of guys in our TVR club that are way bigger than I am, and they take their wives on long trips in their cars so....
I didn't think it would be such an issue, but it's turning out to be so.
forget about it ever being an issue.Gassing Station | Griffith | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff