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I want to know what our car weighs out of morbid curiosity. The local truck stop says the scales won't be acurate, or may not even register) our small car. We have scales at work here, but we are the type of "big bad corporation" with nazi-like rules were I could get fired if they even found out I THOUGHT about using the scales here at work, much less actually used them.
So where can I get my car weighed?
How about if you take your car apart one piece at a time and use your bathroom scale, just have to subtract your own weight each time 
Not sure about the area you live in but here in Tampa, Waste Management has a drop off site for garbage. You can pull in, get weighed, not drop anything off, get weighed again and they will give you a printout showing the two weight ins. Since there should be no difference, they will not charge you anything.
Landfill
Scrap Metal yard
Junkyard
BTW- The operator at the truck stop is a moron. Those scales should measure a car just fine.
Landfill
Scrap Metal yard
JunkyardBTW- The operator at the truck stop is a moron. Those scales should measure a car just fine.
At Buttonwillow, we sweet-talked our way onto the scales in Wasco/Shafter/whatever the crap the town is called. The scale (CAT) has several modes, and several pads. The front pad is for the cab, the rear pad is for the trailer. We had to put the car on the front-most pad, and he had to figure out how to switch it to "low-range" mode.
Took some screwing around to figure it out, but we got our weight, and they didn't even charge us. Normally $10.
Chris
Or you could take the car to test-n-tune day at your local dragstrip. They'll have a scale, plus you can practice for future Lemons Drag-O-Rama events!
Most race shops have scales.. We have 'em Tons of SCCA and NASA racers have their own sets of scales.. find one near you.
Wight down the woad there's a cute wittow wexus.......
you can practice for future Lemons Drag-O-Rama events!
Sort of like this?
http://www.billetproof.com/billetproofv … tegoryid=3
That was a fun day, even as just a spectator. My '37 Plymouth wasn't quite up to the tech inspection, what with them wanting seat belts and all. So demanding....
Mike Harrell
Growing up in corn country I've been able to weigh my vehicles at any grain silo. The scales are usually still active even when the silo is closed.
Or you could take the car to test-n-tune day at your local dragstrip. They'll have a scale, plus you can practice for future Lemons Drag-O-Rama events!
any chance the drag-o-rama can happen at thunder hill? lol
I am strongly in favor of drag racing with Lemons.
Drag racing killed our transmission!
That picture is great, everyone must have thought WTF when you showed up.
Landfill
Scrap Metal yard
JunkyardBTW- The operator at the truck stop is a moron. Those scales should measure a car just fine.
No, scales are designed to work in a specific range, and in this case, a car weight is a small % of the designed scale range... I think the operator is right on, and you'd have to weigh with a truck on it too, or it will be way off. Here's an experiment you can do to demonstrate it. take something small and put it on the bathroom scale. Now do it with you on it, then you alone, taking the difference as the object weight. You will see its way different that trying to weigh something on the bottom end of the scale range.. Its just how it is....
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