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21/5/2009 at 8:33pm
Location: East Yorkshire Outfit: Bailey Pegasus 546
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Quote: Originally posted by Bill Terry on 21/5/2009
This dosent start till the 1st of Oct, plus vosa will have the power to take lorry`s coaches CARAVANS of the rd from this date. At the moment they only have the power to snatch cars off the rd.
Hi Bill
I don't know where October came from, the towbar test is in now, and VOSA can prohibit any vehicle from continuing a journey if it is overloaded or has a significant mechanical defect, caravans, cars even motorcycles included, and from 28th May will be issuing fixed penalty tickets and putting points on licences.
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12/7/2009 at 11:37am
Location: Essex Greater London Outfit: Bailey Phoenix 640
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Howdy peeps, just nipped on to say......
Many thanks to the marvellous emailed newsletter thingy from our beloved UKCS because this was the first we'd heard of the new MOT bit regarding the checking of towbars. There certainly IS an article about it one of the Caravan club mags that we get every month, but to my shame.....neither of us had actually read it before we got our email newsletter from this site.....
Having now managed to plough through several back dated issues of our CC mag.....(8 w-h-o-l-e months to be precise when clearing out the magazine rack and realizing that we'd not even opened them! Shame on us, they're sooooo informative we REALLY should read them as they arrive), on a sunny afternoon sitting in the garden last week, I found the same information.
I asked my SIL if he was aware of this now being a part of the MOT as he was, (until earlier this year), a vehicle technician, (aka...mechanic), when he left his job to start his own business but he said that as he was no longer an MOT tester.....he hadn't a clue.
Thankfully, the towbar we're now using is on my motability vehicle, only one year old, so will not require an MOT until it's handed back in 2011 by which time we'll be changing it for another vehicle anyhoo but there's still the one on my hubby's old Vectra to be considered.....best he tries lugging me along with it to do a strength test as since my increase of vastly excess poundage, I reckon I might be a tough test for it.
Once again......a humnugous to dear, dear UKCS, where would be all be without ya!
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02/9/2009 at 3:22pm
Location: None Entered Outfit: Swift Challenger Sport 524 VW Carave
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I have just been looking at the towbar MoT test requirements on the VOSA website. As a retired development engineer, I can only say "what a shambles".
Method of Inspection: Visually assess the towbar for wear and pull on the towbar and/or its mountings to check for security, corrosion fractures or damage.
(1) Pull how/with what? If manually (by hand), this will not detect movement that may occur under accelerating and braking conditions with a trailer/caravan in tow. (2) corrosion - Many towbar fixing points have their end mountings enclosed in the bow sections of the chassis, and are not visually accessible without some dismantling. Also, corrosion often creates a tightening effect due to rust scaling, which then diintegrates when subjected to loads, and only then does insecurity show itself.
How will the wear be assessed? Towbar components will be rejected if they become reduced by more than 25% of their original thickness. That can take them below the strength designed into the as-new safety factors.
For towballs the amount of acceptable wear is considerably less, therefore a towball will be rejected if the visual assessment indicates that the towball is obviously excessively worn. The recommended wear at which point a towball should be replaced, is when any part of the spherical surface drops below 49 mm diameter. This can happen and the towball still be visually in a satisfactory condition, particularly where a towball is frequently cleaned to accommodate the friction pad type couplings. Here, the only true way to check it is to use a micrometer.
Detachable towballs: They will be checked for security in their anchorage brackets, and will be allowed up to 3 mm play at the towball. I find this scary. In engineering terms, this is like dropping a penny down a drain grating. With such play, the repetitive sideways forces exerted by the caravan would constantly work on this amount of play so as to progressively worsen it.
I have a detachable towball. My last one, after 4 years, had virtually imperceptable
shake; perhaps 2 to 3 thousndths of an inch max. at the ball. My current one, only a few months old, has none.
It will be interesting to see how this MoT works in practice.
Bertie.
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