Towing
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slob
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no need to disconnect the prop if it has a series box fitted. it dunt got oil pumps that need driven. its a splash fed box.
if you had something like an auto box fitted then, depending how far you was towing it, you would have to remove a prop or two.
if you had something like an auto box fitted then, depending how far you was towing it, you would have to remove a prop or two.
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series = part time 4x4 (Ok to tow just make sure its in 2 wheel drive Red knob forward yellow knob up)
Defenders = permanent 4x4 (Bad to tow)
series = part time 4x4 (Ok to tow just make sure its in 2 wheel drive Red knob forward yellow knob up)
Defenders = permanent 4x4 (Bad to tow)
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Just remember it's illegal to tow a using a dolly except in an emergency. and both vehicles have to be taxed, mot'd and insured.
Yesterday I saw a guy driving a huge motorhome in Glasgow, causing traffic mayhem. He was towing a small car using an A-Frame. He had NO lights connected, no "ON TOW" sign, and didn't have the towing vehicle's reg number on the towed car.
Is it legal to tow this way for convenience?
It was NOT a recovery or emergency situation. It just looked like they wanted to take the little car with them as a runabout for after they arrived.
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most trailers i've seen dunt got working lights and the number plate is usually a piece of cardboard wiff the number writen on in yellow crayon. and plod dunt seem to give a fook, so its no wonder folk tow any old how they like , legal or not
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I heard that tow ropes where illegal these days, apparently you have to use one of them bar things
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Dollies are illegal, whys that then. Don't think tow ropes are illegal. I've heard that towing a car on an A frame behind a camper van in Europe was illegal but still OK in Britain.
And if anyone has an A frame can you measure it and let me know the dimensions. It's for towing a series behind a Disco if that makes any difference.
And if anyone has an A frame can you measure it and let me know the dimensions. It's for towing a series behind a Disco if that makes any difference.
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Hey Disco what was your trip behind Charlsey like?
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what a load of old bollocks!
please get yer facts straight before yer start spouting ****!
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Does that mean it's alright to be towed home by an ambulance if it's answering a 999 call?
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So which fact is incorrect then?
any vehicle which is on a public highway must be taxed, mot'd and insured.
Any trailer weighing more than 750kg must have over run brakes fitted.
and for the other posts on this thread no it's not illegal to use a rope to tow. Even on a motorway but it must be an emergency rescue.
National Trailer and Towing Association Ltd. try reading this.
Exsoldier Died In Truck Crash (from Lancashire Telegraph) and this
Car Transport or this.
oh and you seem to be the only person sprouting **** on this tthread.
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the second fact is true, but yer didnt mention that in yer first post and proper frames have overun braking cables anyway
Sorry YD, but it is true. Any sort of towing aside from on a trailer is illegal unless it is an emergency.
All these people towing cars around behind motorhomes are doing so illegally unless the vehicle they are towing is under a certain weight (500kg in France, not sure about UK) such that they fall under the regulations of an unbraked trailer.
BTW, in respose to the OP, the best way to tow a Series III is on a trailer!! I did it myself with the Disco a few days ago - great fun, especially through the narrow French villages, and even more so when you get stuck, blocking the whole village!
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even the ones that have over run brakes don't meet C&U regs and so it is illegal to tow a vehicle on a uk road using an A frame one of the links I posted does mention this. As I said before you can use them in an emergency which is why AA RAc etc use them but only to "move a broken down vehicle to a place of safety". So if you get pulled while using one (and the plod are starting to pull people towing trailers) and the vehicle's got no t&t on and their's no 2nd driver with you you'll get done. and they can seize and crush the towed car.
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You could do what we did last time we needed to shift a landy with out a MOT.
Instead of renting a trailer (£80) and dicking around picking it up, taking it back and £20 in fuel.
we found one of toughs guys who pick up old cars for scrapping, you know "cash paid for MOT failure" and paid him £60 to shift it 40 miles.
He turned up with a beaver tail transit and just popped it on the back.
No hassel, no regulations to think about.
Job done
Instead of renting a trailer (£80) and dicking around picking it up, taking it back and £20 in fuel.
we found one of toughs guys who pick up old cars for scrapping, you know "cash paid for MOT failure" and paid him £60 to shift it 40 miles.
He turned up with a beaver tail transit and just popped it on the back.
No hassel, no regulations to think about.
Job done
