How much is too much?

I had a worrying experience today. I went to the builders yard and got some materials. 200 bricks, some paving slabs 4 bags sand and some cement. As I stacked the bricks in it looked like the neat vertical stacks were sagging in towards the middle. I got home quick and unloaded. I calculated that I had probably put 350KGs in the back. It doesnt look like theres any damage and things have come back to normal.

My question is this. How much is too much. How much are you supposed to be able to safely put in the back of a Disco 1?

I hope this may go some way to helping you. I regularly carry 15 x 25kg bags of animal feed in my 1995 300Tdi which totals 375kg. It copes with that very well and the only noticable differences are that the car rolls a little more on corners and the ride up our farm track is a much softer/smoother one. I have just been looking at my car manual page 126 if you have one and it suggests that the rear axle Kerb weight for a basic 5 door vehicle is 1035KG and that its Max rear axle weight is 1650KG.
I assume the difference between the two of 615KG would be the maximum weight you could carry in the boot over the rear axle.

Hope I'm right and that it makes sense to you.

Ok that makes sense. On my initial guesstimate of weight I thought the bricks weighed a kilo. Just weighed one and its 2.3kgs which means the bricks alone were 460KGs plus 4 bags of sand at 25kgs each thats 100Kgs plus bag of cement another 25kgs plus 3 paving slabs about 15kgs each. Thats a total of 630kgs - no wonder the back end was a bit low down and the floor sagging! oops!

You must have been close to losing track of the horizon!

Didnt think much of it at the time. It is only about 300yds from the builders yard to my house. I just didnt think 200 bricks was that much really til I put them in and then the other stuff. It was the sagging effect across the rear floor that worried me. It seems to have recovered now though!

Dont worry,but you might find that the fuel tank has only half of its original capacity now !

I did think about that!