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Originally Posted by bmgoodman
Anybody give any thought to the 900 pound weight limit for passengers & cargo with the TCH? (I think the standard Camry is 1100.) This means that 5 180 pound men can ride together, but only if they have no luggage. Frankly, the way people eat in this country, it's not overly difficult to get very close to 900 pounds with 5 adults. Just curious if anybody has gone much over 900 and "lived to tell the tale".  |
With my best estimate, I have gone about 780 pounds with people and luggage.
Those "prescribed limits" are just educated guesses by the engineers, not definitive, actual "limitations."
They are required for legal reasons to assign a number. But that number does not necessarily mean that exceeding it does any damage or voids a warranty (as if they could ever prove anything anyway) nor does it mean that when the load hits 901 pounds the engine shuts down and Toyota is paged. (I crack myself up.)
Personally, unless you are using the TCH to haul 25 loads of bedrock in the trunk on a daily basis, I'm pretty sure you can ignore that 900 pound number.
