You cannot tow a horse trailer with a VW Golf?

[Lill]

Can you?! My OH seems to think that he could tow a trailer with a horse in it with his Golf as it's got a pulling engine apparently! LOL! I told him that he couldn't, though he now reckons he's gonna try find a way to prove me wrong is he likely to succeed?

 

[rema]

Wouldent recommend it!!!.The trailer will probably be heavier than the car!!!.

 

[SSM]

Up Detling hill

?

 

[jacks_mum]

i wouldn't try it with a petrol engine and the Deisel TD engine can be a bit fragile but in a TDI, ...maybe.

 

[Lill]

Thats what i said to him! But no he likes to be right!

 

[ihatework]

He'd be an idiot to try it

 

[Lill]

It is a TDI! We had half the pub discussing it last week and most came to the conclusion that it would probably at the very least break his car!

 

[RLF]

let him load the trailer with the weight of the horse and tell him to go up and down some steep hills, when his engine starts groaning he'll give up

 

[Lill]

Yer i know, and he's not going to try it don't worry!

Bit of a worrying image that one

 

[Rambo]

Almost certainly NOT legally

A VW Golf has a towing weight of about 1500kgs i think....a trailer would be 900kgs plus horse at say 500kgs....tack and driver would probably tip it just over the limit.

 

[jacks_mum]

we towed a trailer with car on board, so similar weights, from Windsor to Portsmouth with our Golf TD and it managed it without killing the car. It would have been easier with a TDI. I reckon he could do it,

 

[Lill]

Why were you towing a car on a trailer?? Pssst you're supposed to be on my side here!

Rambo - he thinks it would be ok

but surely you are not supposed to tow with anything other than a 4x4, other than the weight thing isn't it something to do with brakes failing possibly? Could be wrong?

 

[pixie]

http://www.cuddles.abelgratis.net/volkswagen.htm

 

[Halfpass]

The trailer would probably tow the car better

 

[Rambo]

Legally, it's purely a weight thing. Some of the best towing vehicles in the world are not 4x4's...Volvo's !? All cars have to have decent brakes....in fact I would go as far as to say most road cars have better brakes than 4x4's (bit of a generalisation there I know

). The advantages that 4x4's bring is stability and traction as well as increased towing capacity due to their increased size on the whole

 

[jacks_mum]

Hubby is a VW expert and had bought a broken one to put a G60 engine in - he finds it exciting for some reason. So we had to tow it back on a flat bed trailer as something was wrong with the gearbox (I think) and the back wheels wouldn't go round!

I'm not on anyones side - I was just answering the question

Seriously though, I don't think it's too clever an idea with a large live animal, having said that... we used to ferry our mini shetland around in the back of a VW caddy van!!

Not being much help to you am I???

 

[RLF]

it is recommended by the caravan club (im not a member just read it in last weeks HH), that the laden weight of the trailer does not exceed 85% of the weight of your vehicle.

 

[Lill]

Rambo - that was his comeback that he'd seen Volvo's towing trailers... albeit empty ones! I may show him this if he still insists he is right !

jacks_mum - I'd probably find that exciting to be honest

Aww well when we gave the goats away they went in the back of a Shogun! Nuh it's not really he's not gonna try it and hasn't even got a tow bar it just came up in conversation !

 

[jacks_mum]

well - experts opinion: it can be done

people with brains opinion: not worth trying on health and safety reasons, let alone legal.

 

[Theresa_F]

Only if he were towing something like my baby bateson and one pony like I do - I use a nissen primera 2 litre TD.

It is ok with hills etc, but I would never use it with a larger trailer or an animal over 550 k. Chancer is only 420 at the moment and my Bateson is 650.

I have to be careful with some venues - though so have not got stuck so far.

In theory my OH's Audi TT would be a better tow vehicle - far more power, heavier, 4 x 4 and traction control - Chancer could be the fastest pony in Essex pulled by a sports car.

 

[pixie]

lol, its a pity then that Audi TTs are not approved for towing

 

[PapaFrita]

Legally probably not, but physically... could be. I've seen little Renault 12s here (if you remember those!) pulling trailers here! And these trailers haven't got their own brakes like the ones in the UK.
My volvo was absolutely brilliant at pulling my friend's trailer.

 

[Iestyn]

It doesn't matter about the engine - it's the weight that is the most important. The articel in H&H has really annoyed both myself and OH this week. The woman clearly hasn't got a bloody clue what she's talking about with regards to towing and OH has written a letter to H&H! It would be irresponisble and illegal for your OH to even attempt to pull a trailer with a horse in it.

 

[Oaksflight]

My Dad's 2 litre honda accord struggles with a 16.1hh ID x TB in so I highly doubt it, and even if he managed he'd knacker the car!

 

[rrose]

Golf TDI can pull a horse in a single horse trailer
ive seen it done.

will struggle up hills.

 

[Ashf]

Its downright dangerous towing with such a lightweight car.

I could pull a laden trailer with a pushbiike (slowly) and id be fine tillI come to stop.

I towed my IW and 1 pony with a Xantia a couple of times and it pushed the car around all over the place.

 

[JadeWisc]

I hope that when he does try it it's empty

 

[JLav]

Sophandhal can you fit a 16.1 IDXTB into a Honda Accord? Thought it might be a bit of a squash!! (Only joking!!)

 

[Clodagh]

Years ago my Dad had a triumph dolomite - if you remember those you're not under 35!!

- and they used to tow two hunters all over the county. It must have been terrifying!
If they had to go up Halstead hill they had to get a good speed up by the bottom and pray no old dear was trying to cross the zebra crossing half way up!
No longer!

 

[sojeph]

remember them?.. I had one!! It ws like driving a boat

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