Date:         Tue, 5 Jun 2001 22:27:42 +1200
Reply-To:     Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
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From:         Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject:      Re: Towing
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>I have towed Rabbit and Jettas with our vans - even with a 1.5L I4 installed
>once!  Pulling isn't the hard part - STOPPING is the fun.  Make sure you
>have GOOD brakes if you are pulling something big like this.  I do seem to
>recall somewhere that 700kg is the maximum unbreaked and 1200kg is the max
>with trailer brakes.

Jeez... and my work trailer (used to collect fossil whales... so mit has to
carry a heavy Atlas Copco compressor, fuels, bulk collecting gear PLUS
large blocks of plaster-wrapped rock) is about 1000kg EMPTY! I used it to
move house with my V8 Bay, on Dunedin's very steep hills. And I also used
it with a 75 Golf L 1100...


Andrew Grebneff
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