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Saw a similarly overloaded car on the A30 a couple of weeks back. It was upside down on the grass verge.
@slowol how much does that lot weigh and are you over the max load capacity of the car? My guess is yes, by miles.
its pretty hard to overload a car with small kids on board. my zafira tourer is 1680 unladen and has a gross vehicle weight of 2350. allowing 150kg for the wife and I, and 50kg for 2 kids, there's no way I'm able to put over 500kg of kit inside/on top of it. Stuff might look big, but it weighs a small amount.
looking at the ceed, it has a 440kg allowance for people + stuff, take 200kg off for people, I doubt you're loading on significantly over 240kg, but I might be wrong
That load is almost certainly less than the max load. Tent is heavy at 30 kg, bikes and racks maybe 60kg. Most stuff is relatively light. Although the 360litre roof box is full I estimated 30ish kg as roof weight is max 60 and there is a bike too. Kids are also not heavy (both together weigh much less than 1 adult). The boot is nominally similar volume to the roof box, so not big!
Even though I misjudged a speed bump and had to drive some rough tracks it never hit a bump stop.
Yes it's full, yes it finds hills even harder work for the 1.4 engine but I don't think it is over max weight and the engine never got warm journeying through mid Wales and has more power than our old T4.
The issue with smaller cars is most often purely one of physical space!
You have reminded me that I forgot to check whether I left anything in the spare wheel well though!
I thought I'd replied to this thread but apparently not...
Anyway here is how we currently do it:
Big trailer thing is a folding caravan which holds our beds, some outdoors seating, stoves and hookup cable, plus wellies, waterproofs, and flipflops in the front box.
Car boot holds coolbox, clothing (in the grey plastic boxes), hard foods (in the blue box), car toolkit. So it's mmostly stuff in boxes, and I then pack the nooks and crannies with the inevitable bits and bobs.
Roof box holds bedding, blankets, raincoats. That stuff isn't heavy but is bulky so is good up top.
In the cabin up front we usually end up with a massive pillow bag in the central seat (FR/V is a six seater in two rows of three) plus drinks and snacks for travel and soft food.
I have no idea how I will add bikes into the mix but that's the increasing refrain 🤣
its pretty hard to overload a car with small kids on board.
It depends on the car - payload allowances vary a lot as I was surprised to discover.
New Kia Ceed is 440kg max payload according to their site, so not too bad.