|
 Topic: Front tow bars
|
Page: 1 2
  |
27/1/2013 at 2:32pm
Location: Rushden Northants
Outfit: Mercedes 614D Conversion
View Profile
Reply
Quote
|
Joined: 03/7/2011 Platinum Member 
Forum Posts: 581
| Site Reviews Total: | 0 |
|
| Site Reviews 2025: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2024: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2023: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2022: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2021: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2020: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2019: | 0 |
|
| Site Nights 2025: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2024: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2023: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2022: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2021: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2020: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2019: | 0 |
|
Quote: Originally posted by paul1966 on 24/1/2013
front towbars are not type approved and so insurance companies might not like them fitted, that's if you tell them in the first place. i looked into getting one but in the end got a used motor mover for the van.
Why would you need to tell them? You're not towing on the roads, it's only used for parking the trailer/caravan.
I think we told our insurers but they said it was 'non-notifiable' item and didn't need to be reported to them.
Peter
|
28/1/2013 at 5:55pm
Location: Llanidloes Powys
Outfit: Skoda Yeti SEL4x4 +Bailey Ranger 460-4
View Profile
Reply
Quote
|
Joined: 28/6/2009 Diamond Member 
Forum Posts: 1969
| Site Reviews Total: | 12 |
|
| Site Reviews 2025: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2024: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2023: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2022: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2021: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2020: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2019: | 1 |
|
| Site Nights 2025: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2024: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2023: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2022: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2021: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2020: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2019: | 7 |
|
Because you are required to notify your insurers if you make any changes or additions to the standard specification of the vehicle, whether that modification or addition is going to be used on or off road.
All in the small print, but of course very few people bother to read it.
|
28/1/2013 at 7:46pm
Location: None Entered
Outfit: None Entered
View Profile
Reply
Quote
|
Joined: 07/3/2011 Gold Member 
Forum Posts: 209
| Site Reviews Total: | 0 |
|
| Site Reviews 2025: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2024: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2023: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2022: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2021: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2020: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2019: | 0 |
|
| Site Nights 2025: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2024: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2023: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2022: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2021: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2020: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2019: | 0 |
|
LlaniDavies has a valid point, it is worth checking with your insurer, I very much doubt they would be bothered by it, I've never met an insurer yet that was bothered about a proper towbar which I always thought odd as there is surely a greater risk element towing, if only from a cost of potential claim point of view. Best to be safe, too late when you are manoeuvring onto your pitch or storage space and ram your neighbours unit only to find your not covered.
|
29/1/2013 at 9:57am
Location: Yeadon Leeds!
Outfit: Swift Challenger & Defender 110SW
View Profile
Reply
Quote
|
Joined: 27/6/2005 Diamond Member
Forum Posts: 3331
| Site Reviews Total: | 10 |
|
| Site Reviews 2025: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2024: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2023: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2022: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2021: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2020: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2019: | 0 |
|
| Site Nights 2025: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2024: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2023: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2022: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2021: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2020: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2019: | 0 |
|
Quote: Originally posted by listerdiesel on 27/1/2013
Why would you need to tell them? You're not towing on the roads, it's only used for parking the trailer/caravan.
I think we told our insurers but they said it was 'non-notifiable' item and didn't need to be reported to them.
Peter
because whatever receiver it uses is still attached to the vehicle when you ARE on the road.
some will be bothered, some won't, just as some class a normal towbar as a mod, others not.
|
13/2/2013 at 3:02pm
Location: None Entered
Outfit: None Entered
View Profile
Reply
Quote
|
Joined: 08/7/2009 Diamond Member
Forum Posts: 2262
| Site Reviews Total: | 1 |
|
| Site Reviews 2025: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2024: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2023: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2022: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2021: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2020: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2019: | 0 |
|
| Site Nights 2025: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2024: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2023: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2022: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2021: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2020: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2019: | 0 |
|
funny how this post from 2010 nearly two and a half years old keeps showing up. ??????.
-------------
alpiner
|
14/2/2013 at 12:56pm
Location: Midlands
Outfit: Mondeo Avondale Gram
View Profile
Reply
Quote
|
Joined: 11/5/2008 Diamond Member
Forum Posts: 6893
| Site Reviews Total: | 2 |
|
| Site Reviews 2025: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2024: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2023: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2022: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2021: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2020: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2019: | 0 |
|
| Site Nights 2025: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2024: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2023: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2022: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2021: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2020: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2019: | 0 |
|
MikeBusby, There is no comparison a mover is way ahead of a front mounted towbar.
Ont the link you put try having 2 longers cars in those bays and parking tha caraven between them without using the block paved area. A mover will.
I was so glad i had the mover fitted last year, Where i needed to position it was through a gateway about 2ft wider that the van.
As i swung it in the hitch was brushing the wall opposite the gateway. And it was on a slope.
Front mover would have been useless and trying to do it by hand would have ended in damage.
|
24/2/2013 at 3:14pm
Location: None Entered
Outfit: None Entered
View Profile
Reply
Quote
|
Joined: 16/8/2008 Gold Member
Forum Posts: 215
| Site Reviews Total: | 2 |
|
| Site Reviews 2025: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2024: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2023: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2022: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2021: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2020: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2019: | 0 |
|
| Site Nights 2025: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2024: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2023: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2022: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2021: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2020: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2019: | 0 |
|
Quote: Originally posted by LlaniDavis on 28/1/2013
Because you are required to notify your insurers if you make any changes or additions to the standard specification of the vehicle, whether that modification or addition is going to be used on or off road.
All in the small print, but of course very few people bother to read it.
As most vehicles have a screw in offset towing eye, simplist thing to do is get another towing eye, get another towball, get it welded to the towing eye and just screw it in as you need it, no need to even bother telling the insurance company if it worries you because in a few minutes you would be unscrewing it to remove it.
|
26/2/2013 at 4:05pm
Location: West Wales
Outfit: Kia 999.9 ccs
View Profile
Reply
Quote
|
Joined: 25/10/2006 Silver Member 
Forum Posts: 167
| Site Reviews Total: | 0 |
|
| Site Reviews 2025: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2024: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2023: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2022: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2021: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2020: | 0 |
| Site Reviews 2019: | 0 |
|
| Site Nights 2025: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2024: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2023: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2022: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2021: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2020: | 0 |
| Site Nights 2019: | 0 |
|
ad210358 Food for thought there - my merc has has no screw in towing eye such as you refer to, but it has an extremely sturdy built in vertical towing eye which I am now busy planning a bolt on bracket to accomodate a slot in push hitch.
-------------
If if it aren't totally broken its probably best left alone.
|
|
