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Towing on an A-frame

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landroverkeith:
there illegal cos of the towing weight of a trailer cant exceed 750 kg without having brakes on said trailer i think anyways u need a braked trailer to tow 3.5t legally ;)

thumbs:
what about the rac and aa, ive seen them use these!

the universal ones are quite regularly seen being used these dyas, i.e behind motorhomes,

if it is now illegal, why hasent their been anything advertised to inform people

Miniman:
I think we all need to search the net and see what we can find about the legality of A frames

muddyweb:
It's been covered above.

An a-framed vehicle counts as a trailer.  So, if it is more than 750kg, it has to have overrun brakes... hence towing a LR isn't legal.

The recovery companies have special exemptions in many cases.

A lot of the motorhome a-frames have attachments to hook up to the car's brakes, hence allowing them to be legal.

So, in order to do it with an LR you would need to do something with the braking... but you can't really use the transmission brake, so it would need to be some sort of modfied rear axle.

muddyweb:

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Because that would make it hard to sell them...  There are lots of things you can buy which aren't legal for use on the UK roads....  just think of some of the lights & tyres you can buy  :?

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