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Topic: Astra as tow car?

carter840

29/5/2010 at 4:37pm
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Ok I know it will not be ideal but towing with a diesel Astra will be possible will it not? The van will have to be light and smallish any ideas on weights?

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29/5/2010 at 5:04pm
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Any idea of year/model/engine of Astra? just look in your car handbook for towing weights or look on kerbweights

Vectratot

29/5/2010 at 5:32pm
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I used to tow an old Elddis Whirlwind with max weight of 800 kg with an Astra 1.6 petrol (old F reg) then with a R reg (97) 1.6 petrol. They both did struggle a little on hills, but did North Wales and many times to the Lake District.

robsonalan

29/5/2010 at 6:16pm
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I have an 2007 Astra Estate 1.9 CDTI 150, it has a max towing weight of 1400kg. We tow a Adria Altea with a max weight of 1300kg. It does a fab job.

carter840

29/5/2010 at 11:07pm
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Well it looks as it will do a job, just! Any recommendations for a van? Smaller, lighter and older would be OK!

Opensauce

30/5/2010 at 12:06am
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..Eriba Puck.

Tunstallwood

30/5/2010 at 5:49am
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Folding caravan? Esterel, Casita, etc

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Nobody can make any serious suggestions because you still have not posted full details of the car you actually have. If it is a modern diesel Astra you can go to about 1100kg which gives you a reasonable choice.

G7ACU

30/5/2010 at 10:09am
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Personally, although the Cuddles site is an ok starting point, I find it of date and inaccurate.
Take a look at UK Tow

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carter840

30/5/2010 at 6:27pm
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G7ACU, excellent info, that will do the job! Cheers.

Cobe27

31/5/2010 at 10:12pm
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I have a 2.0 tdi astra, towing a 1993 Sprite Muskateer. Does the job nicely.

robp1970

29/6/2010 at 9:41am
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Just one word of warning... I have a 1.9CDTi 150 hatch that I was using to tow our van when we first bought it... It towed it well with no problems...

But since then the car has had to have new rear springs (One of the existing ones snapped) & then a completely new gearbox as it started making some scraping noises in 3rd & 4th gear... Luckily this was all under warranty!

On reading a few other forums - Astra Owners Network - for one, it appears that the gearbox & spring failures are common on this model of Astra, it has a high torque & some say that the gearbox is really only just strong enough to cope with it... so adding the weight of a caravan on the back, MAY - and only may, have attributed to the failures...

I still have the Astra as i love it... but we have changed the wifes car for a Nissan Xtrail so we use that to tow with now.

pstuart

13/7/2010 at 9:37pm
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Go 'whattowcar', you might be very suprised at what the Astra can tow.

Thinking of downsizing the Vectra for one.

Towing an Adria 532lt

petra8315

14/7/2010 at 7:16pm
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have a look at a freedom caravan, its very lightweight made of fibre glass so dont leak ours is 600kg unladen

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