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[Andy B]

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Only if you passed your test after the early nineties.
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1st Jan 97 to be exact! 

[r1]

i towed a 2.5 petrol on a trailer with my 2.5 diesel about 200 miles and think i was overloaded as both rear mud flaps were touching the road.moved the car back slightly and got home no proplems,but i have done a lot of towing and would not RECOMENED this.also car would only do 50 mph and died on hills

[vxlnut]

I have a towing 'A' frame and have towed many vehicles with it (nothing as big as an omega though) and have found it to be very good, far superior & safer than using a towing bar.  The mind boggles how the safest option can be the illegal one.

Could you use an 'A' frame and have someone sitting in the drivers seat as if it were a towing bar?  This saves worrying about steering and braking.

and I thought you had to have the car you are towing insured if you are using a bar / rope?

Come to think about it, can you tow at all if you do not have a be & E licence?

[Gaffers]

I have a towing 'A' frame and have towed many vehicles with it (nothing as big as an omega though) and have found it to be very good, far superior & safer than using a towing bar.  The mind boggles how the safest option can be the illegal one.

Could you use an 'A' frame and have someone sitting in the drivers seat as if it were a towing bar?  This saves worrying about steering and braking.

and I thought you had to have the car you are towing insured if you are using a bar / rope?

Come to think about it, can you tow at all if you do not have a be & E licence?

with simply a B cat license you can tow upto 750kg.  I have B+E and C1+E  (upto 3500kg iirc) 

I was unable to get the driveshaft off safely due to the location of the car but I have 2 more options to get it back.  One involves an A-Frame a friend has  

[tunnie]

Is this car driveable & legal on the road? I am in Camberley now! Although only for another hour or 2, but i am usually down this way a fair bit.

[Lazydocker]

I have a towing 'A' frame and have towed many vehicles with it (nothing as big as an omega though) and have found it to be very good, far superior & safer than using a towing bar.  The mind boggles how the safest option can be the illegal one.

Could you use an 'A' frame and have someone sitting in the drivers seat as if it were a towing bar?  This saves worrying about steering and braking.

and I thought you had to have the car you are towing insured if you are using a bar / rope?

Come to think about it, can you tow at all if you do not have a be & E licence?

with simply a B cat license you can tow upto 750kg.  I have B+E and C1+E  (upto 3500kg iirc) 

I was unable to get the driveshaft off safely due to the location of the car but I have 2 more options to get it back.  One involves an A-Frame a friend has  

Still need to pull the driveshaft though

[Gaffers]

I have a towing 'A' frame and have towed many vehicles with it (nothing as big as an omega though) and have found it to be very good, far superior & safer than using a towing bar.  The mind boggles how the safest option can be the illegal one.

Could you use an 'A' frame and have someone sitting in the drivers seat as if it were a towing bar?  This saves worrying about steering and braking.

and I thought you had to have the car you are towing insured if you are using a bar / rope?

Come to think about it, can you tow at all if you do not have a be & E licence?

with simply a B cat license you can tow upto 750kg.  I have B+E and C1+E  (upto 3500kg iirc) 

I was unable to get the driveshaft off safely due to the location of the car but I have 2 more options to get it back.  One involves an A-Frame a friend has  

Still need to pull the driveshaft though

I know 

But I have acquired some ramps that would make the uncoupling much safer, but I just dont want to take a mate all the way out there again to just have to take him home again.  It was such a waste of his time 

[omegadan67]

I wonder if its just the towing vehicle has to have efficient enough brakes to cope ?. I would have thought a Landrover would be suitable for this sort of load, do you know anyone you could borrow one from ?.

Ken

Thanks for all the speedy replies.  I have a friend with a LR but he's away this weekend.  So towing bar it is.  Just spoken to the police for some official advice, I can take a car with towing bar onto the motorway as long as I respect the 60 mph limit and dont use the outside lane (B+E License requirement)

sweet!

I'm pleased you've chosen this route

Now which Land Rover is it, i ask,
 as don't forget that an Omega can weigh more than a Landy depending on Landy size.

I used to alot of towing as part of my job & we had a Disco V6 diesel which was well up for the task (even so we still had some tail waging going on occasionally ), but if you're planning on using a short wheel base. I wouldn't

as far as im aware being a lr discovery owner that the weight of my disco is 2.5 tonnes ive yet to see a omega get close to 2 tonnes and the train weight or weight you can tow with a lr is normally 3.5 tonnes