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towing advice please

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Hangover:
It's amazing how when some people are faced with being towed by a rope all their common sense flys out of the window,get one of those bars from your local accessorie shop,they are about 30 quid and worth every penny.
Kev

hobbit:
:lol:

Yes know what you mean, went out last week to a recovery, all I was told was the throttle cable was broke, could have gone out in the disco and towed it back the guy was not happy being towed

So had to unload a dead car off the transporter to run out to the van, when I got there all that the problem was the plastic clip holding the throttle cable onto the injector pump had broke off, got a piece of elastic from an old seat cover and tied the thing back onto the spindle and he drove it bac, he hadn't even looked under the bonnet

Still had to reload the car on the wagon when I got back.

Bit annoying though, I live virtually half way between the garage one way and where the breakdown was the other way :roll:

Hangover:
A friend of mine told me a story of how he towed another car useing a washing line,he had also rigged up a trailer board in the back window of the towed car, the washing line snapped and the trailer board(still attached) flew from the rear of the car nearly giving the poor driver a whack on the head.
Kev

alaric:
If you need to use the motorway at all, you are no longer allowed to use a rope only tow - you must use a rigid bar.

Alaric.

muddyjames:
I got towed once when my fanbelt snapped in my old S3 and the person towing me told me to do most of the breaking. Stopping a S3 and a disco with S3 breaks is challenging!


It was the most scariest things in my life as they flew round the roundabout bouncing the front end round as I couldnt get a good a steering lock as they could and on a bit of rope at 50mph wasnt pleasant.

Also my step mum towed me once and she did not know how to tow anyone. I needed to stop as I could see the rope slowly undoing off her car and so I was hooting my horn etc and she just waved back to me. Luckily when we got to a junction with me keeping the rope taught and foot on brake when she pulled away it undid the rest of the way so she had to stop!!

Only time I have felt happy being towed was behind an AA van on a bar. Still scary as you cant see where your going next or stopping!

But it was kind of everyone to tow me any way. I have only been towed those 3 times!!!

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