And although I don't advise doing it a large percentage of the 3/4 ton diesel pickups you see towing RVs are over their payload capacity but stay within their GCWR (combined gross weight of pickup plus RV). Note again that the weight provided by GM on your car data plate is with a full tank of fuel and GM doesn't "cheat" on weight measures like some of their EU competitors who often show a dry curb weight. If you are really worried put just enough fuel in the tank for your trip, gas weights a bit over 6 pounds per gallon so half a tank is another 50 pounds. Although I wouldn't greatly or regularly exceed the vehicle's rated cargo weight a slight excess for a limited period of time is OK with reasonable driving. The ATS has excellent brakes so although stopping distance goes up with weight you will still have good control but adjust speeds and allow for a slight increase in stopping distance. A little extra weight isn't going to blow out tires or cause the suspension to collapse but don't start out with underinflated tires. With a full passenger load plus an overloaded trunk you would be putting a lot of weight on the rear end so watch that luggage. These are for base vehicles and this will be reduced by options with options like the sunroof being the heaviest.įor a trip to the airport even if you are 150 pounds over I really wouldn't worry UNLESS you are overloading the trunk. Severely overloaded is bad but an extremely heavy tail load is far worse in terms of degradation of handling performance other than an increase in traction for RWD vehicles.įrom a quick look at the 2016 specs the 2.0T in RWD form has the largest carrying capacity at 1,147 pounds and the 3.6 in AWD comes in the lowest at 1,049 pounds. Most people who overload passenger cars do it by putting too much in the trunk, with pickups it is usually people trying to tow too heavy of a fifth wheel/gooseneck resulting in excessive pin weight. Driver plus passengers plus luggage shouldn't exceed weight carrying capacity and luggage in trunk should not exceed its rating. I am not sure exactly which year/model you have but with passenger cars the two primary considerations are the absolute capacity which is the GVWR minus "wet" curb weight (wet includes all fuels and fluid) and also the separately rated maximum weight that can reside in the trunk (which loads the rear tires heavily and causes the car to be tail heavy).
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