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04/9/2015 at 8:52pm
Location: Sweet Home Inversneckie
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'Dirty air' , ''Cars displaced air pressure', what am I missing here.
Also are you tyres rated for 81 m.p.h Francais?
I know I was overtaking at 70 m.p.h. in the summer on the M 6 when the traffic eventually eased. But all the while I was a little apprehensive. Despite my 13" wheels.
81 m.p.h.. and towing for 1000's of miles seems a bit adventurous.
Please correct me.
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04/9/2015 at 11:13pm
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Yep tyres are rated 75T so safe upto 118mph!, well they would be it's a French Trailer.
Just a case of setting the Cruise Control and watching the miles roll by, been doing that since 2010, tyres still good for another 5 years having only done 8k miles.
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05/9/2015 at 9:26am
Location: Sweet Home Inversneckie
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Mine are N rated only good till 87 m.p.h.
Need to curb my enthusiasm and certainly not try to chase you!
Tried cruise control last weekend. Found it an experience that I wasn't sure I liked. Certainly felt the engine was working harder.
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05/9/2015 at 10:21am
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I find that MPG improves when using Cruise Control, it's the hill sections on the autoroutes both up and down were Cruise Control really seems to come into it's own.
On the firms Mk7 Golf that I drive, it has a Radar Detector which will adjust the Speed to keep you a distance from the vehicle in front.
For me that was always the problem with the earlier versions of Cruise Control, you were forever knocking it of and setting it back up again.
Having said that, Cruise Control is pretty useless on UK motorways during the day, and I had hardly used it until we got over to France.
No Hand Brake on the Mk7 Golf, now that did take a little getting used to, having had a Hand Brake since I started driving 38 years ago!
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05/9/2015 at 3:45pm
Location: Midlands
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I have a 102 and my FIL's mobility scooter fitted in just nicely.
Adding high sides is OK for lightweight bulky stuff but adding the sides will reduce your carrying capacity.
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05/9/2015 at 5:02pm
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Puzzled as to how adding sides will reduce carrying capacity.
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05/9/2015 at 11:39pm
Location: taffy like butt !!
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The weight. It costs in the load the trailer can carry. I got a edre 122. Now it's 60kg approx. I added sides and a lid that took it to 92kg. That difference reduces its load by 32kg. So Max gross is 400kg. With a load of 340kg. By adding sides the weight is taken off.
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05/9/2015 at 11:42pm
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The issue with camping gear is always weight. My tent is the greatest item at 30kg. But after doing my trailer build I found clothes are so bulky I need to add a topbox to put them in as most of the weight went into the cars boot. As all the space was taken up with clothes for 5 for 2 weeks.
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06/9/2015 at 1:28am
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Quote: Originally posted by Rhj296 on 05/9/2015
Puzzled as to how adding sides will reduce carrying capacity.
The trailer has a loading capacity limit, say a gross weight of 350kg for example.
The trailer may weigh 75kg on its own, then add a spare wheel and the bracket kit making another 25kg.
So your 350kg trailer can now only carry 250kg.
Add the weight of the sides and anything else you want to fit and your decreasing that limit further.
I have seen some pictures where people have extended the sides in 1/2" ply which is not light and then added a top or plastic canopy and then asking about sticking roof bars on top of that.
Sometimes you have to wonder what it weighs and is there any spare capacity left to put anything in it.
Wife hands me the bags to load the car every year and i say thats not going in the roofbox. Light stuff only.
Yet everyyear we have the same argument. I just say now that if she can pickup all the bags with one hand and hold them for 10 seconds i will put them in the roofbox.
Amazing how empty it stays since saying that, until next year...
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06/9/2015 at 2:25am
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Understood. I was thinking of volume rather than weight.
I am corrected.
I have a 750 kg trailer which I have extended twice.
I weighed it at Easter time, fully loaded and if came in at overv 600 kg.
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06/9/2015 at 1:44pm
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1/2" ply is a bit over kill lol. I used 12mm. And used a light weight frame to support it for the windbreaks to go on top. However I am looking at a roofbox for it. I can use alu flat bar to make a frame for the box to secure to. Clothes only. Its actually harder to load a trailer than you would think. As I am no where near the load limit and no room left in the trailer.
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06/9/2015 at 7:48pm
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We have an Erde 102 and cage extensions,
Purchased from Towing and Trailers. Great service and very happy with it.
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To many mountains not enough time.
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