Tow Bar...and Trailer...

esta · Post by **esta** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 4:08 pm

Anyone got a tow bar i can borrow for the 480? Locally?

And maybe a trailer i cant rent for a nice price...???

Its all for a 480 if that helps sway you!!

lee · Post by **lee** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:52 pm

what are you after towing?

esta · Post by **esta** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 12:15 pm

a 480!!

owen080808 · Post by **owen080808** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 5:06 pm

i recomend one of these:
http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/produ ... n-products

an assistant, and a set of these:
http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/produ ... -twin-pack

cheapest way i found of towing a dead 480.

just make sure and have a spare battery if you need lights at night!

edit: you could also run into difficulty (not least with the police) if your towing more than the weight of your car, im not aware of the exact rules, but i can guess that weight of trailer+weight of dead 480 = more than weight of towing 480...

esta · Post by **esta** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 5:13 pm

Yeah, i would prob use a larger car anyway, as i would only be a hypocrite-the amount of times i have sat there slagging off fiesta drivers for towing caravans!

Maybe i could persuade work to let me have a Landy lol!!

cheers for the link!!

gltease · Post by **gltease** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 6:20 pm

Best thing to tow a 480 is another bigger Volvo !!

Whats the smallest legal device for towing a car which is not occupied?
Are A frames illegal now ?
Also check out your yellow pages for car trailer rental, think its around Ã‚Â£40-60 for the day.

lee · Post by **lee** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 6:54 pm

you will need something bigger than an volvo 850 to tow a 480 on a trailer. You can just get away with an XC90/S80.

To stay legal when towing a car trailer loaded you must first of all have a B+E licence and then a trailer which is rated with a payload of 1.5ton. Then add the weight of the trailer this would be around 300kgs so the gross weight would be 1.8ton which is the max an XC90/S80 can legally tow. An 850/V70 is even less than that. If you towing without a B+E licence and get stopped you will be done for driving otherwise in accordance of licence. this is a Ã‚Â£60 fine and 3 points on your licence. Then if you are overweight this is fineableand is normally around Ã‚Â£1000-2000.

Of course anyone worth their weight knows of a way round these laws.

lee · Post by **lee** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 6:55 pm

just to let you know that the above post is fact. Any further questions on towing or laws PM me

esta · Post by **esta** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 7:01 pm

Lol will indeed!

The website kinda confused me, i was trying to work out if i was legal, cos it said summit about a combined weight of 3500kg if you just had a plain old B-which i do...

So i think i must be wrong, dammit!!

Big Brother · Post by **Big Brother** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 7:06 pm

Thats strange. I wanted to bring a 480 spares car back from Kent a few years ago so called the DVLA and asked if I could tow on my license, I gave my license number over and they told me I could tow with a combined weight with the vehicle I am driving of 3.5 tons. So I used my dad's 850 and an a-frame, I also had a light board strapped to the back of the 480. Loads of police cars went past as I was only doing 55 mph all the way back and none of them took any notice.

lee · Post by **lee** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 7:44 pm

like i said any driver worth their weight.

Also you used a A-frame which weighs about 40kgs not putting the 850 overweight

lee · Post by **lee** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 7:45 pm

Also bear in mind that the weight factor when using a trailer doesn't go on actual physical weight but on the plated weight

JohnTurbo · Post by **JohnTurbo** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 12:00 pm

Yes, i was going on about this in another thread, and to my friend. Plated weight of car + plated weight of trailor must be less than 3500kg.

Friend wanted to tow an rx7 with a shogun...plated weight of shogun = 2700kg, plated weight of trailer = 2500kg.

no chance without a +E

martinholmesuk · Post by **martinholmesuk** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 1:36 pm

Just get a recovery to pick it up. look on ebay and get quotes from all.

lee · Post by **lee** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 3:17 pm

the reason i know about the plated weights is that i was refused by a trailer company a car trailer when i said i was towing it with a 850 as it didn't have the legal tow capacity. Also at the time i didn't have a B+E licence so would be allowed anything over 750 kgs

I have all the licences and tools now.

owen080808 · Post by **owen080808** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:26 pm

is there not also some towing qualification which used to be standard on your licence (i.e. my dad has it as he passed his test yonks ago) but where i having passed in the last ~5 years no longer automatically get the towing part on my licence and have to sit another test?

Big Brother · Post by **Big Brother** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 7:19 am

owen080808 wrote:is there not also some towing qualification which used to be standard on your licence (i.e. my dad has it as he passed his test yonks ago) but where i having passed in the last ~5 years no longer automatically get the towing part on my licence and have to sit another test?

I think thats the D1. Also lets you drive a vehicle with more than 7 seats.

Bear · Post by **Bear** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 5:58 pm

D1 is a 16 seater minibus basically, but not used for Hire or Reward!

sambo · Post by **sambo** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 9:55 am

I got my Turbo home without any problemsÃ¢â‚¬Â¦.. my friend drove my pug deisel towing me about 80 miles by tow rope! Its not illegal as long as your Ã¢â‚¬Ëœtowing off the motorwayÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ Ã¢â‚¬Â¦..i think!! Plus insurance was a slight issue, but thatÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s another problem.

My friend is a slight nutter, he got the speed up to 86mph while I was going crazy at him from the 480!

chris1roll · Post by **chris1roll** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 7:27 pm

volvo-bigbrother wrote:
owen080808 wrote:is there not also some towing qualification which used to be standard on your licence (i.e. my dad has it as he passed his test yonks ago) but where i having passed in the last ~5 years no longer automatically get the towing part on my licence and have to sit another test?
I think thats the D1. Also lets you drive a vehicle with more than 7 seats.

No, the B+E is car plus trailer, which you got automatically. I think you probably got D1 automatically too, but now all you get is B,B1 and f, k, and p.

Bit shit really.