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I'm looking at getting a towbar fitted to Dumbo my Downton so we can come down to the LGT in one car next year i was going to get a Mini trailer but the steel ones are heavy and the fibreglass ones are £££££££ so looking at a light weight trailer but I need advise on tow bars how do they fit I know a company called towequipe do one (all be it for Minis up to 1998 - mines the same just 1999) and it looks like part of the fittment attaches to the rear bumper lip? P&L Minis do one but wanted some advise please. I plan to fit a chrome cover to it so it doesn't look too odd on the back of the car
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I think legally speaking you can't fit a towbar to a post 1998 mini (although I have seen them) so you might need to find someone who is a little bit "blind" to the law.
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Yep, that was my thought and then the hard bit to work out if you're licensed to tow. Andrew has just worked on this with a guy on New MINI who was unaware his license did not cover him.
Anyone can tow a little trailer (up to 750 kg laden weight). As far as i was told, if you want to to anything larger you need to take a b+e test
select concorde 2 brighton then like 'heartbreaker' thats your only task for the day....do that then do whatever you want, easy! http://toursupport.grahamcoxon.co.uk/
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http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Mo.....7 Reading this looks like I'm ok phew regarding the towbar bit I've asked the garage who look after him about the MOT and they are checking it out for me. I know the e Marking is an issue with them so well see
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Looks ok. It's really confusing though so takes a while to work it out.
select concorde 2 brighton then like 'heartbreaker' thats your only task for the day....do that then do whatever you want, easy! http://toursupport.grahamcoxon.co.uk/
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The year of your mini is an issue - I'd check with your insurer that you will be covered, as my understanding is that Minis from 1999 onwards are not allowed to tow because Rover chose not to put them forward as tow cars in some new EU legislation.
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so we can come down to the LGT in one car next year i was going to get a Mini trailer but the steel ones are heavy and the fibreglass ones are £££££££ so looking at a light weight trailer but I need advise on tow bars how do they fit I know a company called towequipe do one (all be it for Minis up to 1998 - mines the same just 1999) and it looks like part of the fittment attaches to the rear bumper lip? P&L Minis do one but wanted some advise please. I plan to fit a chrome cover to it so it doesn't look too odd on the back of the car
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