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I am that has always said I would not, coz my primera 2.2dci copes more than adequately towing at 93%, flys up hills and  steadya s a rock at 60 on the motorway.............

But this weekend I got caught out, reversing up hill onto a sloping both ways pitch.........I can still smell that clutch (sickening smell).

One of the larger 4x4 next time round for me for me, my mind is made up!!

Stay with Nissan and get an x-trail

Mind even these have soft clutches and smell a bit when reversing

agree a sickening smell and it lingers for days

Having had an Isuzu Trooper, Mitsubushi Shogun and now a Land Rover Discovery Series2, I can categorically state that all the Japaneese 4X4's fit under sized clutches that get hot when having to slowly manouver a heavy caravan. The Discovery however does not suffer from this, in addition, it is possible to use the low ratio box without locking the differentials, thus you do not have to slip the clutch at all to move on to or off a pitch.

Also consider fitting a mover to the caravan. I have one due to a difficult drive at hone. However I now use it on site, as on some sites there is insufficient room to reverse a caravan on to a pitch with a large 4X4.

Hope this helps.

that's ok scarlet....you can say what you like...your Welsh!...unless zaccy123's also Welsh as well!!

anyway zaccy123 (mmm...you can count too) what's that digit after the word country? be a thing if you made an error as well!!

Quote: Originally posted by scarletsfan on 11/09/2005

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I am that has always said I would not, coz my primera 2.2dci copes more than adequately towing at 93%, flys up hills and  steadya s a rock at 60 on the motorway.............

But this weekend I got caught out, reversing up hill onto a sloping both ways pitch.........I can still smell that clutch (sickening smell).

One of the larger 4x4 next time round for me for me, my mind is made up!!

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Hate to say it, but on the way back from Cornwall towing a big van  up a hill in a jam for an hour our clutch stunk. And t's a big 4x4.

we tow our conqueror 630sal (max gross 1800kg) either with my volvo V70 awd or my wife's discovery

both cars are automatic, and over the last 10 years have never had a problem, on hills, backing up, etc.

ok fate, consider yourself tempted