Corner Weight & Cross Weight Calculator

Enter your four corner scale weights to get total weight, front/rear and left/right split, and cross weight, the number you adjust when corner balancing on coilovers.

Total
2,400 lb
Front / rear
52.1 / 47.9 %
Left / right
50.0 / 50.0 %
Cross weight (RF + LR)
48.8 %
−30 lb on the RF/LR diagonal vs 50%

Weigh with the driver (or equal ballast) in the seat, fuel at your usual level, tire pressures set, on level pads.

What cross weight is

Cross weight (or diagonal weight) is the right-front plus left-rear weight as a percent of the total. At 50%, the car carries the same load on each diagonal, so it turns the same way left and right. Off by a few percent, the car can push in one direction and get loose in the other.

How corner balancing works

On height-adjustable coilovers, raising one corner's spring perch moves weight onto that corner and the diagonally opposite one. So to raise cross weight, you'd raise the right front or left rear perch (or lower the other two), re-weigh and repeat. Set ride height first, then balance with small, matched adjustments.

Front/rear and left/right can't be fixed with perches

Adjusting perches only moves weight between diagonals. To change front/rear or left/right split you have to move mass: the battery, ballast, seat position, or simply who's driving. In a left-hand-drive street car, the driver alone usually makes the left side heaviest.