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Different Tow Hitches
muddyjames:
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is there a place for the electric socket to be fitted
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fit the towing socket onto the back door like I have. Very easy to do and you will never scrape mud into the socket ever again!
Darren:
--- Quote from: "Range Rover Blues" ---I'm not sure that's true, I can't remeber who but someone has type-approved their towbar for the DII.
It's not that hard to do.
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I'm happy to be proved wrong but I had a long conversation about this with an engineer from www.watling-towbars.co.uk earlier this week and I've no reason to doubt what he told me. It's apparently a very expensive process (several thousand pounds) and also very bureaucratic in nature - his words to me were "there's no room for common sense".
The two inch receivers offered by Scorpion and Discoparts aren't approved (and that particular design is never likely to be apparently) and, although Southdown now make a version of their excellent tank guard for the DII, they state on their website that the design isn't type approved.
If anybody knows of a similar low profile demountable system that is type approved I'd be very interested as I've just bought a DII :roll:
redhand:
--- Quote from: "Darren" ---
--- Quote from: "Range Rover Blues" ---I'm not sure that's true, I can't remeber who but someone has type-approved their towbar for the DII.
It's not that hard to do.
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I'm happy to be proved wrong but I had a long conversation about this with an engineer from www.watling-towbars.co.uk earlier this week and I've no reason to doubt what he told me. It's apparently a very expensive process (several thousand pounds) and also very bureaucratic in nature - his words to me were "there's no room for common sense".
The two inch receivers offered by Scorpion and Discoparts aren't approved (and that particular design is never likely to be apparently) and, although Southdown now make a version of their excellent tank guard for the DII, they state on their website that the design isn't type approved.
If anybody knows of a similar low profile demountable system that is type approved I'd be very interested as I've just bought a DII :roll:
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Presumably then he first one to get type approval is gonna make a mint, and have a long waiting list for the towbar "you have to speculate to accumulate"
redhand:
Scorpion Racing are advertising a demountable hitch, Towbar for a disco 2 I'm assuming they have gained type approval. I will be phoning them Tuesday to confirm. If they haven't then a complaint will be going in to VOSA and advertising standards.
Darren:
As far as I can tell, their ad in the latest LRO only shows it on the back of a DI, for which type approval isn't necessary. It only applies to vehicles registered after 1st August 1998.
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