Hi,
I have recently won a pug 306dt from ebay for a whopping £100, the thing is I am in Sheffield and the car is in kent, At the moment the 306 isnt running as the radiator is gone,
Anyway I can hire a transporter trailer for £30 for the day, the thing I was wondering is would my 406 pull it and the car, I only have the 1.8 engine and I know that the 306 dt is quite heavy.
What do people think? I have access to a 306dt that does run, would this be better?
Also I have seen some car towing 'dollys' has anyone used one, does anyone have one I can borrow! or know where I can hire one of these!!
Mike
Towing with a 1.8
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Re: Towing with a 1.8
Not sure if a 1.8 would pull the car on a trailor.
My brother (and me really, as i own half but he keeps it) have a A frame. Very impressed with it, just fasten it to the bottom arms and on the towbar away you go. Major advantage is that not pulling the weight on the car as such but only have the rolling resistance of the car.
He has pulled number of cars with it using his old a4 1.8. He used a 1.9 none turbo 406 to tow a few cars recently.
My brother (and me really, as i own half but he keeps it) have a A frame. Very impressed with it, just fasten it to the bottom arms and on the towbar away you go. Major advantage is that not pulling the weight on the car as such but only have the rolling resistance of the car.
He has pulled number of cars with it using his old a4 1.8. He used a 1.9 none turbo 406 to tow a few cars recently.
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Previously - 1999 406 Executive HDI
Previously - 1999 406 Executive HDI
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Re: Towing with a 1.8
its not so much if it will pull it, but if the combined weight of the trailer and car does not exceed the maximum towing weight stated in your owners manual
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Just went through the registration papers of my 2.0 petrol 406. Here´s what it said: "maximum towing weight with a trailer (with brakes) 1500kg." So I don´t know about the 1.8 model but I´m pretty sure it´s somewhere near that...
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Re: Towing with a 1.8
Kerb weight of a 306dt is 1165 kgs.
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Re: Towing with a 1.8
306dt's towing weight is 1000kgs with a braked trailer
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curious (..or just dumb) Finn asking: what´s a "ball rating"
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New one on me too, nose weight?
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It is how much physical weight you can have on the tow ball. I know in Australia the 406 has a very low rating and you can't tow anything more than 500kg usually!
I dont think the 406 makes such a good tow car anyways - with three people in the back seat and a set of alloy wheels in the boot I've had it scrape and bottom out. I would hate to see what its like with a boot full of luggage, two kids on the back seat and then towing a 4 berth caravan!
I dont think the 406 makes such a good tow car anyways - with three people in the back seat and a set of alloy wheels in the boot I've had it scrape and bottom out. I would hate to see what its like with a boot full of luggage, two kids on the back seat and then towing a 4 berth caravan!
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I was looking for some guidelines from DVLA or something and came across this little gem. Now you have to pass more driving tests to tow stuff?! WTF?!!
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Re: Towing with a 1.8
This is the case in Finland too...steve_earwig wrote: Now you have to pass more driving tests to tow stuff?! WTF?!!
Re: Towing with a 1.8
steve_earwig wrote:I was looking for some guidelines from DVLA or something and came across this little gem. Now you have to pass more driving tests to tow stuff?! WTF?!!
Blurb.
Yeah, we discussed this in painful detail a couple of months back... You've got to work really really hard to figure out exactly what you can and can't pull on a normal licence...
<steve_earwig> I think this forum is more about keeping our cars going with minimal outlay than giving our cars more reason to go bang
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Sorry to drag up old stuff but it's news to me. More bored beaurocrats dreaming up more legislation, extra revenue generated is not a factor of course.
Actually, my brother has filled me in on a few of these frankly silly new laws that have come in since I left. I hear that you can't do anything to the elctrics on your house without the right qualifications, instead of that you have to get ripped off by someone that does. And you can't give your neighbour's kids a lift to school with yous unless you have a child care qualification. Oh yes, and of course the smoking, I hear that you can only smoke behind a locked door wearing an asbestos suit surrounded by fire extinguishers with the light off. What's next?
You're no longer allowed to shag your wife without a government inspector giving her a trial run as a risk assessment for back injury.
Most accidents happen in the home so they're going to fill all inhabitable spaces with polistyrene beads.
As an effort to reduce deaths by heart disease all hearts will be surgically removed and fed to squirrels.
By 2010 all bananas will be genetically modified so they have no skins.
Actually, my brother has filled me in on a few of these frankly silly new laws that have come in since I left. I hear that you can't do anything to the elctrics on your house without the right qualifications, instead of that you have to get ripped off by someone that does. And you can't give your neighbour's kids a lift to school with yous unless you have a child care qualification. Oh yes, and of course the smoking, I hear that you can only smoke behind a locked door wearing an asbestos suit surrounded by fire extinguishers with the light off. What's next?
You're no longer allowed to shag your wife without a government inspector giving her a trial run as a risk assessment for back injury.
Most accidents happen in the home so they're going to fill all inhabitable spaces with polistyrene beads.
As an effort to reduce deaths by heart disease all hearts will be surgically removed and fed to squirrels.
By 2010 all bananas will be genetically modified so they have no skins.
Unskilled meddling sin©e 2007
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Re: Towing with a 1.8
406 1.8 towing weight is 1315 kg (braked trailer) and noseweight is 75 kgold codger wrote:306dt's towing weight is 1000kgs with a braked trailer
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