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05 October 2015, 22:58
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Country: UK - Scotland
Town: Glasgow
Boat name: stramash
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Length: 5m +
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Did it come with a towbar?  |
Oh aye ..
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05 October 2015, 23:03
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Town: Mighty Penryn
Boat name: Little Joe.
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How TF can you pay £2k for a towbar?!! 
From memory, a LR Discovery genuine HD tow pack is around £600 fitted. That's not the soppy plug-in, it's the full nine yards of solid engineering.
How can any company justify £2k? 
OK, vid is viewable now. . That's just weird.
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05 October 2015, 23:06
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Aye it was a lot .. but ... with 560 BHP on tap ... witter wasnt on my playlist TBH
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05 October 2015, 23:08
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Town: Mighty Penryn
Boat name: Little Joe.
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Aye it was a lot .. but ... with 560 BHP on tap ... witter wasnt on my playlist TBH
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What vehicle is it?
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05 October 2015, 23:33
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Country: UK - Scotland
Town: Glasgow
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Engine: Etec 90
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M5 
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06 October 2015, 00:18
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Country: UK - England
Town: London/Oxford
Make: Ribcrafts
Length: 5m +
Engine: 150hp/2x115hp
MMSI: 235090215
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And the award for old thread resurrected and responded to.... goes to.... CJL well done sir .. thats a few years in between .. have to say I just paid 2K for mine  |
Sorry that award goes to - KTTvesuvius
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06 October 2015, 07:42
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Country: UK - England
Town: South Yorks
Boat name: Black Pig
Make: Ribcraft
Length: 5m +
Engine: DF140a
MMSI: 235111389
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Originally Posted by Mollers
How TF can you pay £2k for a towbar?!!
From memory, a LR Discovery genuine HD tow pack is around £600 fitted. That's not the soppy plug-in, it's the full nine yards of solid engineering.
How can any company justify £2k?
OK, vid is viewable now. . That's just weird. |
Got mine for the D4 from here paid £169 for it from my local dealer & fitted it myself in about 45min. Very happy, it's neat & compact & more ground clearance than the LR model. I'm about to get a refund from LR for the cost of it, due to the problems with the detachable LR model which is a POS!
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07 October 2015, 19:10
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Surprised to see you can legally tow behind an m5....
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07 October 2015, 23:24
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Town: Glasgow
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Surprised to see you can legally tow behind an m5....
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How on earth are you surprised by that ?
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08 October 2015, 10:22
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Country: UK - Scotland
Boat name: Wildheart
Make: Humber/Delta Seasafe
Length: 5m +
Engine: Merc 60 Clamshell
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Back to the cost thing.....
Firstly, the original thread is now 4 years old. A LOT has changed in vehicle electrical architecture in that time. Fitting the bar has arguably become easier as any bar needs to be signed off to EC crash etc and generally bolts on in place of the rear cross member - simples. some can even be done without removing the bumper!
I did a bog standard Mondeo a couple of years ago..... Dealer fitted a "dedicated" (aye, b*ll*x) Mondeo bar & kit for £250. Most places looking for around £700
After taking delivery I then spent a further £300 odd replacing the bypass electrics cr@p with a Westfalia CAN talking 'leccy Kit. (which needed the Car poked electronically to wake the module up & make sure it was talking to the ABS etc......
With cheap "fits all " electrics kits the thing you will notice is your park sensors go nuts because the trailer is so close! As already said, what you can't see is the ABS / stability etc modules mdifying their response....or not as the case may be....
So yes, you can get it done for a couple of hundered, but be well aware of what you are actually paying for!
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08 October 2015, 18:47
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How on earth are you surprised by that ?
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Normally high performance cars aren't halomagated for towing
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09 October 2015, 07:58
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Country: UK - England
Town: South Yorks
Boat name: Black Pig
Make: Ribcraft
Length: 5m +
Engine: DF140a
MMSI: 235111389
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Normally high performance cars aren't halomagated for towing
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I was halomagated once,,,,,,, I still can't walk straight 
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09 October 2015, 16:47
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Country: UK - England
Town: Wild West
Boat name: No Boat
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I was halomagated once,,,,,,, I still can't walk straight |
........I did wonder! 
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09 October 2015, 20:31
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Country: Finland
Town: Helsinki
Boat name: SR 5.4
Make: Avon
Length: 4m +
Engine: Toh1 3,5 Yam 90/2S
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You are lucky. The local dealer her quoted approx 1500 eur for a removable towbar(Installed) on a Alhambra...? !
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09 October 2015, 22:12
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Town: Glasgow
Boat name: stramash
Make: Tornado
Length: 5m +
Engine: Etec 90
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Normally high performance cars aren't halomagated for towing
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come out mollers
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