New and in need of help! towing

there is a review of this car in this months mag.(page 96/97 )  gives a kerbweight of 1480kg and 85% ratio is 1258kg so if your van is max weight of 1150 then your safe to tow. just take it easy for the first few times and stay relatively close to home till familiar with everything. happy towing.  

I need a tow bar first, the best price I have seen is Towbars express on line £438.37, is this good?

There are 3 basic types of towbar. Two bolt flange, swan neck & detachable, whether the quoted price is good or bad depends on what you were quoted for. 

Online is a way of getting an idea of price but also check locally for tow bar 'specialist' who may be more convenient and even price match.

Thank you for your replies. I have booked a fitting of the tow bar (£350 all in) and found out the max tow weight so I am feeling a lot calmer. The next issue will be driving it for the first time!!!

Talk to local professional driving instructors to arrange one to one towing instruction quicker than waiting for a Club sponsored course. 

Hello and welcome 😃

You can always book a course privately with local  instructor , possibly using your own vehicle and caravan to gain your confidence 😉. Never towed but my licence allows it would want advise on hitching safely etc as well as towing myself. Wouldn't want to loose out on my investment on the first outing!

Just hitch it up & take your time .... Allow more room to stop & when turning as your caravan will want to cut the corner. Take a course by all means, but towing isn't hard and once you get going you'll wonder why you doubted yourself. 

You're allowed to tow with all (car) licences .... it just depends on what kind of licence you have as to exactly what you can tow.

When having the tow bar fitted advise the company that your caravan has the two 7pin plug leads (i think at that year) black for caravan road lights and grey for internal caravan electrics,as they will these days fit a 13pin socket as standard so you will need an adaptor cable 13pin to the two 7pin sockets

Don't forget to tell your insurance company.