Advice on 'Towing Bars' Needed!!
 

Hello everyone I need to pick your brains and tap into your experience!

I do a lot of towing and recovery of vehicles up to a max of around 2tonne

Many of these being poorly volvo's!!

Does anyone have any tips on buying a secure metal bar for towing?
If so pro's and con's.....

Best make to purchase etc.....

It is a stop gap for the time being..... I sold my car trailer before christmas last year due to family and space constraints....

Any pointers would be greatly recieved.....

Would you suggest anything else for the job......

Apart from a low loader

there are some quite substantial "rigid bars" available, even through someone like "machine mart". they are a self assembly 2 or 3 section unit, complete with a "damper spring" to take brake/drive off loading. These are reliant on having a driver in towed vehicle, otherwise you will need to go for a "A" bar type, which clips onto the towing vehicle via the 50mm ball, then attatches to the disabled motor via the other end of the "triangle" via 2 ratchet straps.
These are a bit scarcer on the ground and only usually available through a good "commercial trailer stockist".

its a case of how bigs your pocket as an a bar can cost almost as much as a trailer, whereas a straight bar wont go much over the 40.00 mark, even for a decent one.

I have bought one of these LIDL bars and it looks well enough made for all the use I will give. Great for the cash.

German company so therestuff is usually TUV tested so pretty good, not cheap china rubbish.

I've got one of those 3 bits clip together ones alot its box steel and not like the machine mart ones and i've modified one end and put a 50mm tow hitch on it,

I've towed all sorts with it and i've even used it at work rather than using a rope as its alot safer as you are closer and fixed to each other,

don't know how much its designed to pull, but i've towed a xc90 and a big reno box van with it and it coped okay,