MunkeyBoy

Gravelled what was my front lawn last weekend and given the good weather, decided to use the S to carry three loads of five gravel bags from local garden centre.

S seems to drive as before but a niggling paranoid thought that i may have damaged the rear suspension keeps popping into my mind .

Am i right to worry?

euan

Do you know how heavy each load was?

I have put 2 bags of building sand in the bag of my S before, as part of my winter traction control system (the B&Q bags which I think are the max allowable weight you can sell nowadays - 25kg each?) and not had any problems.

The thing I worry about is damaging the cardboard boot liner when you have the tool/jack insert out of the car. If you had the insert in, I doubt you could have fitted enough gravel in the boot to have overloaded it.

Is there a max boot weight figure in the handbook at all?

MunkeyBoy

Not from memory but i'll check in the handbook

Thanks Euan

Beardie

There'll be a max load weight for the car. Might be on the tyre pressure panel on the door frame.
Very unlikely to have damaged anything, just reduced the life on certain suspension components.

Lets face it the S's boot ain't that big.

MrV

Dont forget you can use the passanger seat for 3 more bags if you need to ,not that I would


No probs so far

AquilaEagle

Except your usually sat in it James!!

Useful

A passenger's going to be about 3 bags of Gravel (75kg).

Wouldn't think it would do anything!

MunkeyBoy

That was my rough calculation so an extra two bags in the boot should be well within load limits.

scov

Try it in the snow. Plus a splade, a bag full of salt and a supermarket shop in the boot.

Don't fear whether it will break... It won't. How does it handle?

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Nick Graves

Get some HKS Coilovers, you cheapskate!

We put loads of bathroom tiles in the Civic for that Riceboy slammed look, too. Looked mean, brakes were crap, but it lived!