My xB is coming shortly, like next week.

After hauling 6 - 50 lb bags of powdered sugar in the back of my van for work yesterday, I began to wonder if the new car will be able to handle that load in the cargo area, or if I'm going to have to put that kind of thing in the back seat. Anyone haul really heavy stuff in their cargo area? Does the cover over the tire have a chance of breaking under a weight limit?

Thanks,

Jill

 

300 lbs is not a ridiculous amount of weight if you spread it out. I personally wouldn't want to put that much in just the concentrated area behind the back seat. I would either put the seats down and move some of it forward, or put a few of the bags on the rear floor boards.

 

The total payload is 800 pounds (thats what I recall from reading the owner's manual anyway - you may want to confirm)
I would suggest distributing the weight with the seats down - or put some of the bags on the floor behind the front seats). The most I've carried is 160 pounds behind the upright back seats + a couple 200 pounds of passengers . Even with that relatively light load the steering felt light.

 

If you don't need rear seating all the time just take the seats out and you'll have a fine cargo area.

I hauled home a refrigertor in carton last night. True, it warn't no full sized job but then again it wouldn't have fit in nearly so easily if I had all the rear seat and cubbies and spare back there.


call me Zippy. I love my box stripped of dead weight.
All payload space and no mother in law seat.

 

I had the xB filled floor to ceiling and every crevice packed this past weekend. Looked like I had put on lowering springs but otherwise I had no problems. It even trucked up mountain roads just fine with all the added weight. I would guess there was about 400# of weight back there.

 

I too have had alot of weight back there...it really is a visual common sense thing in the end.....