Towbar
Posted By : John Davies, 09-Apr-2007, 12:04pm
Towbar design and installation was the subject of a long thread here a while ago.
Search, and you shall find!
John
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Posted By : Leon Guyot, 09-Apr-2007, 04:31pm
Not to be confused with the much inferior Witter Towbars.
TSSC Offers used to sell them
Regards
L&195;&169;on
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Posted By : Christian Sargent, 09-Apr-2007, 06:40pm
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Posted By : Garth Jupp, 10-Apr-2007, 03:42pm
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Posted By : Nigel Gibbins, 11-Apr-2007, 08:39am
Isn't that technically illegal?-
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Posted By : Jonathan Binnington, 11-Apr-2007, 09:14am
Oh Nigel! gasp!
just because someone may have tried to write a law to govern it doesn't make it illegal...
just think about trailer brakes, they have to reach 50% efficiency, 50% of what and that there isn't a way to measure it doesn't matter at all.
Tow bars and trailers, if you are able make it and make it strong, don't try to sell it and see how other people have done it prevoiusly.
No, it's not illegal, and you would only commit a civil offence, not a criminal offence, if you tried to sell products that had not recieved a type approval (and I'm not even sure that is needed)
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Posted By : Kevin Rochfort, 11-Apr-2007, 09:39am
>>>>Isn't that technically illegal?
No, not on "our" cars, they are all too old - even the Acclaim is old enough to be exempt !
European type approval for towbars was introduced with directive 94/20/EC, which applies to cars first registered on or after the 1st August 1998. It does not apply to cars first registered before this date, therefore you can do what you want with one of our cars.
See the Q&A's on the Witter Towbars site for a more in depth explanation, especially if you are looking at fitting a towbar to a modern car, or transplanting a towbar off an older car onto a modern car. http://www.witter-towbars.co.uk/quality_standards/...-
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Posted By : Garth Jupp, 11-Apr-2007, 10:03am
Nigel,
Both Kevin and Jonathan are correct I think 1970's some when is the cutoff. Put it this way if anyone had run into the back of my other Herald the 4" box section that was fixed against the diff would have speared the car behind and recked it. I pulled a folding camper around Wales from the IOW and then on to Stafford and back home with no trouble at all. I used this box section with some angle welded on the end for the tow ball to bolt through. There were lugs welded along the box section and bolted through the wheel well. There were two arms that went out to the boot outriggers to provide lateral restraint. All the longitudinal loading was taken by the chassis section that supports the rear of the diff.
Garth-
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Posted By : Jonathan Binnington, 11-Apr-2007, 10:27am
Garth, never knowingly underengineered, huh? -
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Posted By : Nigel Gibbins, 11-Apr-2007, 01:16pm
Ouch! ... it is hot in here isn't it?
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Posted By : Jonathan Binnington, 11-Apr-2007, 01:20pm
we outlaws are revolting...-
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Posted By : Nigel Gibbins, 12-Apr-2007, 01:08pm
well you did have to sit downwind at Silverstone...
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Posted By : Dennis Benson, 12-Apr-2007, 00:45am
bought about 25 years ago - still havn't fitted it and never will now !!!!!
it's the very neat stanpart version that fits behind the rear valance
if you want it please send me your contact details and i will call you - cheers dennis
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Posted By : Raymond North, 13-Apr-2007, 03:43pm