A Frame

Hi

just been too Benidorm for the weekend on the way home overtook a French Motorhome towing a Citreon C1 on a A-Frame, this goes against everything.

Phil

 There is a production of an "A" frame that mirrors the one marketed  by "car a tow" of Poole. !!  !! One for them & one for us  ?.??  

That doesn't mean that they are legal, though. There are lots of things offered on the market that are sold to the unsuspecting just to make a quick buck. If they made it to Spain towing an A-frame, they were lucky - especially in Spain! It seems that on the whole they are tolerated in France, but they are still not legal..

Clever! Might give that a go instead of the jockey wheel as 1 less item to carry... any risk of bending/damaging the cross member?

None at all Craig, if there is it cannot be a very well built frame.

peedee

and still not illegal, but lets not reopen that discussion which has been done to death. Just balancing the facts.

I'm afraid so. So long as there are no provisions in any legislation for A-frames, towing with an A-frame will be considered on the Continent as being the same as towing a trailer and therefore the combination car + A-frame must fulfil all requirements that apply to trailers, which they undoubtedly don't and unlike in the UK there is no such thing as the law of precedent which could help out.

For want of any specific legislation the analogy A-frame/trailer isn't taken for granted in the UK, so that leaves A-frames in a grey area of being neither legal nor illegal. By law they simply don't exist.

Ah sorry I meant the cross member on the car as it is supporting quite a bit of weight at a very shallow angle - if you get what I mean?

Well I never had a problem with a Car-A-Tow Frame fitted to two cars and that is one if not the heaviest frames on the market. Currently I have a Towbars  2 Tow frame and again I have not had a problem. The latter is a much lighter frame and it is supported at three points by the piece of rope. FYI the downward force of the Car-A-Tow frame on the tow ball was 10Kgms, I haven't measured that of the Towbar 2 Tow but being lighter it will be much less.

peedee

Hi

Only today joined a queue of traffic on the road between Torrevieja and Quesada and in front of us was a Motorhome from the UK towing a car  on a A=Frame. The queue was instigated by the local Guardia Civil Traffico road block and when the Motorhome got to them they just waved it through with no fine/uncoupling.

Phill