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Originally Posted by TazDaz
Missed your post earlier. Yep, just seeing if I can tow a track bike around the country.
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Again, what car you driving? Also what bike is it you want to tow and how heavy is it?
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Originally Posted by 7755matt
One of the important things to remember is to use the Maximum Gross Weight of the trailer involved. A lot of people make the mistake of thinking its the actual weight, hence a lot of horse trailers being towed by unsuitable cars
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Aye, also check your vehicles max towing weight, I was talking to someone who has a gritting company and one of their drivers got a fine not sure about points but deffo a fine as he was towing a trailer too big for the vehicle.
He just assumed as he had a 4x4 he was fine, I think it was a Mitsubishi L200 (could have been a Nissan Terrano) and it turns out his vehicles max towing weight was a 2.7 tonne braked trailer whereas my Disco has a max of a 3.5 tonne braked trailer.
(No idea why, maybe it's to do with chassis and/or axle design or that the Land Rover is permanent 4 wheel drive whereas the other one wasn't)
He got done towing an empty 3.5 tonne trailer, they said even though it was not loaded it was plated for 3.5 tonne and his vehicle was not allowed to pull it because for all they know he could have been loading it up and bringing it back.
Of course I was not actually there so cannot guarantee it happened but they sounded a quite narked off when talking about it so inclined to believe them that it happened.