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Frontera 2.0l Sport V's Freelander Td4
Range Rover Blues:
--- Quote from: joe90 on February 05, 2008, 20:17:25 ---
This leads to another question tho - if its used for business and the total train weight is over 3.5t am i right in thinking it needs a Tacho fitting?
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Glad to see you are on the ball Joe, yes it does need a tacho fitting though AFAIK it won't need a comercial test on either car or trailer.
Any sort of signwriting on either car or trailer and expect a pull to see the tacho, obviously "billy blog's trailer hire" won't raise any eyebrows, but "the tidy bush" landscape gardeners might ;)
For towing cars htough, I'd choose the Funtera, when it goes wrong (towing 1 1/2 tonnes minimum it will go wrong) it will cost less to fix and the tyres will survive better.
666:
TBH if it was me (and i do tow a transport trailer) i would have to go for a LWB frontera or perhaps a disco just for the extra weight, extra power/engine braking (and perhaps being rated to tow more)
My Fronty hitched up ready to go quiet a few years ago before all the modifications :shock:
Cheers
Mark
BK:
We had a isuzu trooper 3.1td and it was amazing at towing it would tow all day long at 60mph and I used to forget I had the van on the back,the frontera is a trooper in disguise but a mate of mine had a 2.0 petrol and it was VERY thirsty,get a diesel for towing
EvilEd:
IMHO, most of these are not suitable for towing another car!
Avg light trailer is 750Kg. Basic 90 is what, 1700Kg without to many toys. Most of these have a towing weight of ~2000K don't they.
I use a Merc ML for towing, 3500Kg tow limit, used to use a Paj LWB which also had the 3500kg tow limit. IIRC the Daihatsu fourtrack was the only SWB to have a good towing weight last time I looked (a few years back) of ~2800Kg (I've not gone off to check these, they are just off the top of my head)
EE
BK:
Yep,if your gonna tow summat big and heavy you need a big heavy motor with plenty of torque not power to do the job (trooper,disco,lwb paj,4trak,landcruiser)if you dont youll knock 7 bells out of the clutch,cooling system and suspension, trooper was spot on 4 towing when we had it :D
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