donny_daz

Im gonna be towing a pourly scoob tomorrow about 12 miles with a rope by my works van with a tow bar. Was gonna use a bar but ive been told there is a good chance it could **** my front bumper. Its gonna be a busy saturday so just need a few pointers that may help me.

Cheers

rossi_classicwrx

can you not borrow a car trailer mate.. would be a safer bet. Think you can hire them daily for pretty cheap too

motoxxxr

yeah i would to say a trailer would be best mate, as i have found out, was getting towed by my misses and some one in front of her slammed his brakes on and put in reverse to park up at the last min, so my misses slammed her brakes on, as you would imagine i went straight into the back of the car and smashed them both in,

good job it was only an escort hey, we can laugh about it now

as you would know the brakes are useless unless your engine running and it the other drivers on the road you should worry about

chocolate_o_brian

iTrader: (22)

did your mate buy a scoob then, or did you get yourself a bargain daz...

by the way (off topic i know - apologies) but the cars running sweet.

andy

TonyBurns

iTrader: (3)

You can rent a braked trailer for about 40 quid for a day's hire, much easier

Tony

donny_daz

yeh mate bought a terzo but the engine is ****ed

chocolate_o_brian

iTrader: (22)

was it the mate who was there when i bought your car. have you given up on buying a scoob for the time being?

andy

simplesteve

I'm probably too late now, but you shouldn't tow a four wheel drive of any description... you'll knacker the diffs.

500

No you wont, it is safe to tow so long as all 4 wheels are on the ground, if you cant get a trailer or an A-frame, just tow as normal. advise is to take it easy and let the car being towed do all the braking.


Adam

Chelspeed

May be too late, may not but it's also b*ll*cks.

What you musn't do is tow it with two wheels on the ground and two wheels in the air, what the recovery people call the "suspended tow", typically done using a spectacle lift. If you do this the rear wheels are turning and the front wheels are prevented from turning (or vice versa). This will mean the centre diffs taking up all the difference which it doesn't like.

The Subaru owner's manual has a section on "Towing with all wheels on the ground" so it must be OK. Why do you think they build towing eyes into the front bumper of the car?

LegacySTi

iTrader: (13)

Advice from AA themselves is do not tow over 40 mph for risk of damaging diffs.

simplesteve

Then I stand corrected! Only what the AA bloke told me when I broke down in my STI. He wouldn't even tow me the 6/7 miles off the motorway into the services - I had to wait for a flatbed to come and get me from the side of the road...

Chelspeed

Maybe the 40mph bit then? It'd be a bit dangerous sticking to under 40mph on the motorway. There's nothing in the manual about a speed limit but I guess it's just the AA covering themselves against a claim for damaged diffs.

chief-long-shin

Maybe he wouldnt tow because its illegal to do so on the motorway - or so i thought.