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15/6/2022 at 9:12am
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Mass in Running Order weight: 810 kgs
Maximum allowable weight is: 1000 kgs
so that leaves us with needing to find out what engine size and year your current car is, it may be just a case of you adjusting your expectations of your car
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15/7/2022 at 9:58am
Location: West yorkshire
Outfit: BMW 520d Bailey Ranger 550 6
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Hi Wooster
I've copied a link for you here
https://towcar.info/
This gives great information.
With a budget of £1500 I'd be looking at a 2.0 diesel Insignia. If looked after they are decent tow car. There are plenty on the market.(Auto trader)
I've towed with an insignia, amongst others. and it has been a very, very good tow car
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26/7/2022 at 1:37pm
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Rich73 - sorry but I would not touch the towcar.info site with a barge pole. Outfit matching sites in general are notoriously inaccurate and this is one of the worst. It's a Dutch site and many of the cars contained in its database are not to UK spec, which affects the weights and potentially also the towing capacities. There is no substitute for obtaining the information for the specific car and caravan that you actually have (or are looking to buy) and working out for yourself whether it is suitable.
Wooster - as Rob has said, we need to know the weight of your caravan to be able to help you here. Look for a small metal plate, normally by the bottom of the door but occasionally on the drawbar. There will be two weights on here - the Mass in Running Order (MIRO) which is the weight of the caravan as it left the factory and the Maximum Technically Permissible Laden Mass (MTPLM) which is the maximum it can weigh when fully loaded. The latter may be labelled Maximum Authorised Mass (MAM) which has exactly the same meaning. Feel free to give us both of those weights.
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