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 3329 Posts Member #: 184 Senior Member Melton Mowbray, Pie Country |
9th Feb, 2007 at 09:35:46pm
Monster, perhaps I should give you belief again. I have just recently traded in my Elise (apparently you can't get baby seats to fit) for a 250bhp Saab 9-5. The diesel is just my commuter and work horse. http://www.twin-turbo.co.uk
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4309 Posts Member #: 1321 Post Whore Wiltshire |
9th Feb, 2007 at 09:44:44pm
Nic.
On 7th Oct, 2010 5haneJ said:
yeah I gave it all a good prodding |
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 428 Posts Member #: 39 Senior Member Bristol |
9th Feb, 2007 at 09:44:44pm
Thanks dude, meant it tongue in cheek.. |
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 9326 Posts Member #: 59 First mini turbo to get in the 12's & site perv Herefordshire |
9th Feb, 2007 at 09:50:11pm
On 9th of Feb, 2007 at 09:44pm minimole23 said:
Nic. A medium horse weighs about half a tonne!  crumbs!!!! 
is that the sort of size you see people riding around with on the road? The type where you come round a corner, gears screaming, then back off and press the clutch to roll by, when just to make a good impression the dump valve goes HISS |
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 2514 Posts Member #: 1217 I like nice quiet girly Minis Cheltenham, Gloucestershire |
10th Feb, 2007 at 11:59:11am
On 9th of Feb, 2007 at 06:03pm Ben H said:
RogerM, Cars made after 1998 can still be fitted with a towbar at home. The approved part is to do with the manufacturer and the type of car. If the car has a tow raiting then it is fine. Type approved is not going to cause much of a problem. Lots of answers here, you can buy pre 98 cars for the rest of your life. http://www.witter-towbars.co.uk/quality_st...s/EC_QandA.aspx Ben, you are spot on and I probably should stop reading and replying to this forum when I am pushed for time ......... that way you guys might have a clue what I am going on about!!! You can fit the bar yourself for sure but the bar, ball and wiring has to be both approved and fitted in the approved way with the approved fasteners etc. The last time I checked it was not really any more expensive to have a bar fitted than buy a bar on it's own (around here anway). The main reason I drive a 97 Passat is that it was all I could afford 4 years ago that would do the job and had the only car manufactures badge I trust (VW) on the bonnet. Since I am a senior engineer working for one of the worlds largest automotive component suppliers I have to put up with shitty american work ethics and being paid no money so when the Passat goes pop I'll be back on £100 run arounds like I have driven for the rest of my life!!!! I like to spend my "car fund" on something fun .. never going to be a tow car ... LOL Thus the chances are I'll never own a car newer than the one I have now, nothing to do with towing .... unless I can get a job with a proper company ..LOL However that said the towbar fitted to my car would be illegal if the car was a few months newer! Edited by RogerM on 10th Feb, 2007. Every day is a school day ...........
On 27th of Sep, 2007 at 12:45pm Jimster said:
why do you you think I got a girlfriend with small hands? |
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Site Admin  15300 Posts Member #: 337 Fearless Tom Fenton, Avon Park 2007 & 2008 class D winner & TM legend. |
10th Feb, 2007 at 12:10:08pm
Hmm this is all interesting reading, my Audi is a September 1998 car, fitted with a brink detachable towbar. It looks a pukka piece of kit and brink are a well known towbar company but I am now wondering if it has this type approval bollocks! I hope so!
On 29th Nov, 2016 madmk1 said:
On 28th Nov, 2016 Rob Gavin said:
I refuse to pay for anything else Like fuel 😂😂 |
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that sounds better. Bet you'll miss the Elise abit.
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