Why is the trailer being overlooked in the Landrover debacle??!!

[ester]

Thanks audeon.

I wasn't convinced I would want a horse trailer + horses attached to my vehicle by some loose chain with no real ability to steer or brake it hence my query bout length because it might on first thought seem like a good idea but I wasn't sure!

 

[Audeon]

If the towball failed, and the trailer hitch fell onto the road and went forward under the vehicle, then there is a high probability that the breakaway cable "failed going forward", did not exert any pressure to pull the brake lever and engage the brakes before it snapped (with all the pull / pressure being in the brakes off position). Assuming the trailer was in a fully serviceable condition, then you are looking a sheer bad luck and coincidence.

I'm posting in reference to this which has been done to death already.....groan....

http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news...etowbar&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

BUT....Without detracting from the detachable tow bar/Landrover issue, people are completely overlooking this statement.... "the breakaway cable, which was correctly fitted to the car chassis and not the tow bar, failed to pull the trailer brake on”

Surely this is a fault/issue with the trailer but why is no one is mentioning it...... ?? they just want to bad mouth Landrover! If your breakaway cable fails to stop the trailer this has nothing to do with the car!

Or am I missing something?

 

[Clannad48]

I have a detachable towbar on my Jeep which was already on the car when I bought it - well it is labelled detachable but in the two years I have owned the car I have never been able to detach it.... Anyway I was in the garage at the weekend and asked the man who has MOT'd the car in the last three months whether the towbar was 'fit for purpose' as it is supposed to be part of the MOT - I was quite shocked to hear that it is just a visual check and no more. Now my question is what is the point of it being on the MOT if they just look to see if it is there?????