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[Andy B]

......
 even SWMBO can park ours up.

My SWMBO has only driven my car once in over 5 yrs  .... & that was only around a caravan site .... no chance of towing and as for reversing a caravan, she only goes backwards in her car if she really really has to.

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Mine drives the Jeep at every opportunity says she prefers it to her Forester, but dislikes the Merc to drive.

Apparently my R Class is too big & has a 'funny' gear selector  (it's on the column) 

[2boxerdogs]

Got to admit that mine is an excellent driver, her dad was a real car nut having everything from V8 Fords to Aston Martins really miss the old boy ,he passed away 12 years ago , but she shared his passion for big motors which suits me fine!

[YZ250]

In order to be allowed to go out and about towing a burger van, it should be compulsory to have a vehicle capable of accelerating at a reasonable pace and powerful enough to get up inclines without slowing to 35. They are fine on motorways, but you don’t want to get stuck behind a 1.6 focus towing even a small van on a country road.

I agree, and in the twenty five years of towing various new caravans, I have been known to overtake dawdlers on single carriageway 'A' roads with the van on the back. I should never be in that situation but some drivers are just too slow. Mrs YZ says "you're not seriously going past are you" as I select 'sport' or manually downshift, to which I reply "don't spare the horses, we're coming through".    It makes them look twice when they see over twenty five feet of caravan coming past.
I do honour the speed limit though (well, sort of) as I'm well aware that things can get messy really quick.

[Lizzie Zoom]

Got to admit that mine is an excellent driver, her dad was a real car nut having everything from V8 Fords to Aston Martins really miss the old boy ,he passed away 12 years ago , but she shared his passion for big motors which suits me fine!

Us woman have no trouble driving big vehicles no more than men if we want to. You just get used to the dimensions and the vehicles turning circle and away you go

[Doctor Gollum]

No, I mean fog lights

Drls are front only, so easy to spot by way of zero rear illumination

I see that a lot too, but the two examples were from my commute to work this evening 

[2boxerdogs]

Got to admit that mine is an excellent driver, her dad was a real car nut having everything from V8 Fords to Aston Martins really miss the old boy ,he passed away 12 years ago , but she shared his passion for big motors which suits me fine!

Us woman have no trouble driving big vehicles no more than men if we want to. You just get used to the dimensions and the vehicles turning circle and away you go

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I just think it's sensible for her to be able to tow the caravan ,for example I was taken ill two years ago in Yorkshire while we were away for a few days (gallstones) no way was it safe for me to drive home she did it easily in fact the 4x4 drives better when towing.

[YZ250]

Will never understand it, buy caravan at huge cost.
I'll give you that one. 

Depreciation of it is just as bad as car....
Not too bad actually, I've always had pretty decent PX against new purchase, provided you do roughly under four year old exchanges. 

Get horrible MPG towing.....
Buy a vehicle that's crap on fuel anyway and you barely notice.   

Then when you arrive you cook your own dinners...
The same applies to renting a cottage. 

empty your own cr@p
A short walk to the disposal point as opposed to hauling bloody great big suitcases around for miles. 

A hotel...

Ah, I believe these are the places full of lots of rooms that you pay decent money for and spend hardly any time in them. You feel obliged to get up early'ish for breakfast and when you return to your room you have to get out again before the maid/cleaners arrive. You then sit by the pool, have lunch, more pool time/sight seeing, followed by evening meal. You don't want to spend your holiday in a room so you go out again, returning later in the evening to go to bed. You may even get to socialise with other guests in the early hours when you pop out to the corridor to ask them to shut the f**k up and to stop bellowing in the corridor. 

with pool......
Contrary to public opinion, some caravan sites do actually have swimming pools. 

Just to put the above into perspective. 

[Viral_Jim]

You are certainly right my old Terracan used to tow with ease, haven't tried the Jeep yet my cousin is bringing the correct towbar over from the USA in the spring but I really don't forsee any problems with the power that's got !

Drifting slightly OT here, but can you tow (and be insured) with an SRT? My understanding, or to be more accurate, my father’s understanding when he looked at one to replace the P38 RR was that they basically had no approved towing weight in the uk so you couldn’t tow with them on a standard insurance policy.

[henryd]

You are certainly right my old Terracan used to tow with ease, haven't tried the Jeep yet my cousin is bringing the correct towbar over from the USA in the spring but I really don't forsee any problems with the power that's got !

Drifting slightly OT here, but can you tow (and be insured) with an SRT? My understanding, or to be more accurate, my father’s understanding when he looked at one to replace the P38 RR was that they basically had no approved towing weight in the uk so you couldn’t tow with them on a standard insurance policy.

Pretty sure the srt8 can tow but with reduced capacity to do with the centre outlet exhaust *compromising the hitch

* if fitted 

[2boxerdogs]

You are absolutely spot on has a reduced rate of 3500 lbs which is fine for my needs , was going to tow with the Subaru but after speaking with my cousin he is getting the towbar kit shipped over with a furniture consignment in the spring ,Jeep UK quoted me a ridiculous amount for the kit.

[Nick W]

You are absolutely spot on has a reduced rate of 3500 lbs which is fine for my needs , was going to tow with the Subaru but after speaking with my cousin he is getting the towbar kit shipped over with a furniture consignment in the spring ,Jeep UK quoted me a ridiculous amount for the kit.

Will an American kit meet the UK requirements? Your MOT tester is supposed to check!


And American spec towbars look really sketchy to me.

[henryd]

You are absolutely spot on has a reduced rate of 3500 lbs which is fine for my needs , was going to tow with the Subaru but after speaking with my cousin he is getting the towbar kit shipped over with a furniture consignment in the spring ,Jeep UK quoted me a ridiculous amount for the kit.

Will an American kit meet the UK requirements? Your MOT tester is supposed to check!


And American spec towbars look really sketchy to me.

If it's a dealer supplied hitch should be same for everywhere surely.

[2boxerdogs]

According to Jeep UK it is an approved item & will meet MOT requirements ,  when you look around at some of the vehicles towing over here you really wonder if they are inspected on the test.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Will an American kit meet the UK requirements? Your MOT tester is supposed to check!


And American spec towbars look really sketchy to me.

Their towing weight regs are obviously very different to ours and I was quite shocked when I first went over there at some of the car/trailer combos you see going around. 

Especially some of the huge trailers towed by the big pick ups! Yee haa! 

[2boxerdogs]

In the manual the towing capacity is stated at 5,000 lbs that is of course for the USA.