Tow car advice

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Am looking to buy a tow car for my HB510, must be capable of towing 2 horses legally.

I have been offered a 1998 Discovery 3.9L dual fuel (petrol and lpg) manual - are these any good?

I wont often do long journeys usually a short trip once a week with one horse in.

Is it worth keeping the Punto as well for eveyday use or not?

Thanks for any advice
 
if you can afford to run 2 vechiles than id do it, the punto does very well on fuel, the discovery will drink fuel, maybe not drink drink it like some 4x4's but you'll start noticeing fuel bills more regular if you were using it for everyday use.
 
Discovery are (normally) real work horses and proper towing vehicles so as long as it is good nick it should do the trick. To the best of my knowledge there is no legal weight limit on what you can tow - I think the law assumes that overdoing means you wont actually be able to move! If you want to be really sure of how much weight your landrover would tow, look up the MMTB - which will give you how much you can tow - I did this for my jeep and mine has a 3.3ton MMTB. The only proviso I make is that I will not risk towing 2 large horses up our (very steep) hill back to the yard - normal hills are absolutely fine but I am too much of a coward to try getting up our mini mountain! I have a self imposed limit of 15.2 + my full up m/w 16.2!
 
There are most definitely legal weight limits on what you can tow! Disco's can tow 3.5 tonnes, so that is the weight of the trailer plus everything that goes in it. I run an LPG Range Rover - the cost of the gas means that it comes in about half the price of running it on petrol but that's still a lot more expensive than a car.
 
i run two .big car 3.1 monterey for towing and mini as day car.if you can its more sensible and cheaper in the long run.id be bankrupt using big tow car for work
 
As Soloequestrian said their is a maximum trailer weight, Land Rover are usually 3 500Kg. You need to check the plate fitted to the IfW, if it is less than 3 500Kg, then that will be the limit. Finally you need to check the 'Train Weight' of the combination. It will either be on a plate under the bonnet or in the handbook, reckon on around 6 500Kg, but don't quote me. Train Weight = weight of vehicle + load + weight of trailer + load. Exceeding any of those weights, or the individual axle weights can make for an expensive day out in Court!
 
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