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[Martian]

Chris,

If you can lay your mitts on a braked trailer, I have access to a vehicle that can legally pull it.

[Kevin Wood]

Chris,

If you can lay your mitts on a braked trailer, I have access to a vehicle that can legally pull it.

There's a place near me who hire them out at £30+VAT per day.

[aaronjb]

Chris,

If you can lay your mitts on a braked trailer, I have access to a vehicle that can legally pull it.

There's a place near me who hire them out at £30+VAT per day.

That's cheap! May need to get their details off you when I need to pick up bits of Dax The last braked trailer I hired was more like £60+VAT!

[albitz]

Last one I hired was around £100.

[Kevin Wood]

Chris,

If you can lay your mitts on a braked trailer, I have access to a vehicle that can legally pull it.

There's a place near me who hire them out at £30+VAT per day.

That's cheap! May need to get their details off you when I need to pick up bits of Dax The last braked trailer I hired was more like £60+VAT!

http://www.southerntrailers.co.uk

One word of advice, though. Don't confess to getting get a puncture.

[aaronjb]

Chris,

If you can lay your mitts on a braked trailer, I have access to a vehicle that can legally pull it.

There's a place near me who hire them out at £30+VAT per day.

That's cheap! May need to get their details off you when I need to pick up bits of Dax The last braked trailer I hired was more like £60+VAT!

http://www.southerntrailers.co.uk

One word of advice, though. Don't confess to getting get a puncture.

  Expensive bill? Other than that their rates seem extremely reasonable; £30 even for the tilting bed trailer..

[Kevin Wood]

  Expensive bill? Other than that their rates seem extremely reasonable; £30 even for the tilting bed trailer..

Charged for a new tyre. A can of tyre weld would have been cheaper.

Then again, I was glad that the previous hirer hadn't bu66ered the spare, so...

[Kevin Wood]

.. and I suspect it could all have been avoided by not parking it next to Westfield's scrap metal bin.

[feeutfo]

Further thought, it's a private sale, would it be easier for the owner to insure it temporarily, just to get it taxed for 6months? Then cancel the insurance once taxed? Not aware if an Mot issue, presume Mot in place. I can drive it away then. Not sure if sorned though.

That's how I just picked up the Jag - although I heard some post offices will refuse to tax a car on temporary insurance cover so I insured it for 12 months, sent the seller the PDF insurance cert, he went off and taxed it and I turned up the next day with the price of the car + price of the tax and drove it home.

Now I'll cancel the insurance and cash in the tax..

Almost certainly cheaper - even at the full cost of the tax - than hiring a flat bed big enough to carry a 2 tonne car.

That's was what I suggested in the end, and tbh if a cars being sold as a going concern, it really should have tax, I'd want to at least be driven in it to make sure it all works.

[Auto Addict]

I thought the new rule was the total combination must not exceed 3500 kgs., else you need another license.

Big 4 x 4's and twin axle caravans are causing drivers probems at the minute.

[Kevin Wood]

I thought the new rule was the total combination must not exceed 3500 kgs., else you need another license.

Big 4 x 4's and twin axle caravans are causing drivers probems at the minute.

Ditto glider trailers (and in some cases, drivers are having to choose lighter cars to tow them to stay under the limit - how daft is that?). However, that's due to the default level of entitlements which are applied to a new driving licence and, with the greatest respect to the OP, unless he took up driving "late in life" it won't be an issue.

It is, I'm told, an issue when you reach the age at which you have to re-apply for your licence but I wouldn't expect someone as youthful as yourself to be worrying about that, AA.

You need to take an additional towing test to get the entitlement, IIRC.

[aaronjb]

You need to take an additional towing test to get the entitlement, IIRC.

I hope it includes "How to reverse a trailer" (Ah, the comedy on Saturday morning as Mark and I tried to reverse my little Erde into the garage .. comedy because despite my shouting, he couldn't hear my directions, didn't understand my hand signals, and we ended up going forward and backward lots .. until he reversed it into the MR2, anyway. D'oh! Good job that side of the bumper was already knackered after someone drove into the car while parked a year or two ago )

[Auto Addict]

You need to take an additional towing test to get the entitlement, IIRC.

I hope it includes "How to reverse a trailer" (Ah, the comedy on Saturday morning as Mark and I tried to reverse my little Erde into the garage .. comedy because despite my shouting, he couldn't hear my directions, didn't understand my hand signals, and we ended up going forward and backward lots .. until he reversed it into the MR2, anyway. D'oh! Good job that side of the bumper was already knackered after someone drove into the car while parked a year or two ago )

Some people can't reverse a car, let alone car & trailer

[feeutfo]

Chris,

If you can lay your mitts on a braked trailer, I have access to a vehicle that can legally pull it.

Thanks Martian, but I think the guy needs to pull his finger out tbh. Or it's a no go.

[aaronjb]

You need to take an additional towing test to get the entitlement, IIRC.

I hope it includes "How to reverse a trailer" (Ah, the comedy on Saturday morning as Mark and I tried to reverse my little Erde into the garage .. comedy because despite my shouting, he couldn't hear my directions, didn't understand my hand signals, and we ended up going forward and backward lots .. until he reversed it into the MR2, anyway. D'oh! Good job that side of the bumper was already knackered after someone drove into the car while parked a year or two ago )

Some people can't reverse a car, let alone car & trailer

True! I actually thought that to myself just now as I swung the (enormous) Jag onto the drive backwards beside the Omega after doing the slalom of other cars parked at the end of the road like numpties (and you've seen how small the end of the road is) with only one functioning wing mirror.. I wonder how many people (present company excepted, because we're all awesome driving gods ) could do that without breaking a sweat?

I know I work with plenty who'd have bounced off every nearby object in the process and still failed!