Soldato
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA thats amazing.
i've reconsidered, let him carry on posting.
This is gold.
Does a car being towed need insurance?
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA thats amazing.
i've reconsidered, let him carry on posting.
This is gold.
it's possible...
Not that is correct. Otherwise 50% of people who go in there cars would have a crash.
I didn't. I suggest an MX-5. The guy above me recomended an MGB/midget. If you are going to get one of those anyway, spitfires are much cheaper.
There really not that bad, but obviously there not great for bad weather...
it's a cheap option and easy to get away with.
So to conclude you came up with no valid examples.
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Then people like me have to pick up the bill. When you've paid £1400 on insurance for a 12yr old Escort then you might understand why some people get a bit tetchy about the subject.
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Yes, although a frame isn't exactly heavy.
[TW]Fox;13647611 said:And what are the chances of the OP actually wanting to tow a frogeyed Sprite
low, but it wasn't a serious suggestion at all. I was just saying what you could do if you really wanted to.
[TW]Fox;13647611 said:What, just like that? Haha, how do you suggest you do that?Even if by some miracle you managed to 'just connect the brakes' you'd have a non type approved braked trailer. These are... wait for it...
... Illegal. Fancy that.
Obviously you'd have to connect them up by doing some rewiring. I don't know how exactly you'd do it though. It's obviously possible though.
So you say that would be ilegal anyway, fair enough, but it doesn't change the fact that it is possible to do it legally as long as your car isn't more than 750KG. Lots of cars are under that, and even more if you do some weight saving.
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Don't blame me, I don't do it, or plan on it. It's the insurance companies fault for being so extortionate in the first place.
I rather suspect it isn't obviously possible at all.
I would have thought the number of cars on the road in the UK at less than 750kg kerb weight is less than 0.5%.
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Of course it would be, as long as you can control the breaks on the towed car by electronics it'd be possible.
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Probably, doesn't change the fact that it is possible though. I wasn't seriously suggesting he did, as I've said many times. People on these boards need to lighten up a bit.
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Next door neighbour has just been fined £800 for using an a-frame to tow a smart car (730kg) with their motor home. He showed me the paperwork - 5 items apparently:-
1: Towing an unbraked trailer (a frame + car weighed 760 kg).
2: No emergency brake mechanism on trailer.
3: Exceeded gross towing weight of motorhome (by 10kg)
4: Tail lights on trailer not within 10 degrees of the horizontal plane.
5: Tail lights on trailer non operative.
The tail lights on the motor home are high level ones but it appears the lights have to be on the most rearward panel - in this case the Smart car (which is why it was failed for being non operative).
1: Towing an unbraked trailer (a frame + car weighed 760 kg).
2: No emergency brake mechanism on trailer.
3: Exceeded gross towing weight of motorhome (by 10kg)
4: Tail lights on trailer not within 10 degrees of the horizontal plane.
5: Tail lights on trailer non operative.
The tail lights on the motor home are high level ones but it appears the lights have to be on the most rearward panel - in this case the Smart car (which is why it was failed for being non operative).
How?
Yeah big ones do. Smaller ones don't.
How in the name of anything do you rewire a car to connect the brakes??
They are hydraulic.Lots of cars under 750kg? Do you actually have any concept of how heavy a car is? Something lightweight such as the S1 Elise is 790kg. Mk1 Golfs (which are lightweight compared to todays hatchbacks) are 800 and up.
So big trailers have a pumped vacuum system?
How in the name of anything do you rewire a car to connect the brakes??
The same way caravans are connected to the brakes.
Of course. I know most cars are not under 750kg! But there are plenty of cars that are, especially older things. Old minis are 640kg for example, and they are pretty common.
