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Illegal towbar?

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  • Minrich
    Minrich Posts: 635 Forumite
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    edited 4 August 2015 at 8:34PM
    Respond to that , i am sure you can
  • ChumLee
    ChumLee Posts: 749 Forumite
    Minrich wrote: »
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    Respond to that , i am sure you can

    Let's see your city and guilds advanced vehicle examination and forensics collision investigation certificates, along with your mot testing qualifications and I'll accept you're getting close.

    But come on thirty years and you didn't even know speeding was a criminal offence. :rotfl: I bet they were glad to pull A19 on you.
  • Minrich
    Minrich Posts: 635 Forumite
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    Oh dear not what i expected , you are losing your touch
  • ChumLee
    ChumLee Posts: 749 Forumite
    Minrich wrote: »
    Oh dear not what i expected , you are losing your touch

    Maybe maybe not, 30 years of rural policing is hardly cutting edge.
  • Minrich
    Minrich Posts: 635 Forumite
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    edited 4 August 2015 at 8:45PM
    Cutting Edge ? Who cares ?
    Loving spending my gold plated pension .... While you do nothing and have nothing better to do with your life than be an internet oddball
  • ChumLee
    ChumLee Posts: 749 Forumite
    Minrich wrote: »
    Never mind , loving spending my gold plated pension .... While you do nothing and have nothing better to do with your life than be a internet idiot

    I know picking up £247,000 in a lump sum allows me to be a gold plated internet idiot. Three and a half grand a month ain't bad pocket money either. But no doubt you'll top that as you must have been at least an ACC to be as incompetent as you are.
  • arcon5
    arcon5 Posts: 14,099 Forumite
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    Refund after 15 months, sorry but you'd be lucky.
    It's very possible corrosion kicked in and the threads we're pulled out with the bolt.
  • Minrich
    Minrich Posts: 635 Forumite
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    edited 4 August 2015 at 9:12PM
    If that's true then that explains everything

    Briefcase -
  • Herzlos
    Herzlos Posts: 15,917 Forumite
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    It's the MAM of the towing vehicle and trailer that must not be over 3500kg to tow with a 'B' licence, not the actual weight. (ignore the .gov 'advice').

    It depends on when they passed. IIRC around 2012 it changed to use the actual weight, with a hard 3500kg limit, instead of all the MAM nonsense and exceptions.
  • Drop plates are only for lowering the tow ball, that's why they are drop plates & not lift plates!
    I tow a trailer & have the same problem as the OP, on my previous car the trailer sat perfect, on my current car it's sits too low by 50mm.
    I've queried the tow bar people & it's not adjustable. I have been told it all decided by the manufacturer (car & towbar).
    But my car is older & I think the rear springs are worn, the OP's car is a new vehicle & shouldn't have this problem.
    On the same subject, whilst in Austraila, I noticed tow bars there all had a horizontal metal fitting which a height adjustable tow ball fitted.
    At the time I thought they seemed better than the UK tow bars & they seem to drive the same type of cars apart from a few V8 Holdens & big Fords!
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