TOWING

As long as the recommended towing maximum of the car is not exceeded you'll be fine. Just enjoy it and if you're going up a hill, change down.

I see what Tony is saying, but there's no substitute for cubes 

What is the power of the engine in the Seat?

I see to remember another thread recently in almost the same topic - just the numbers were different.

Need more info on spec of car. BHP, Engine size? 

However I happily towed a similar weight van with a 1.6 Nissan Bluebird hatchback 15 years ago. 

Don't forget to consider the nose weight.

Moderator Comment - John I see you have started a new thread rather than replying to your original thread here so I have copied your post here and will delete the other thread to avoid confusion.

Thanks David

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Many thanks for the replies to my query on towing.

I missed the following info. off my first post. The Seat Leon car I will be using

for towing is a 1600cc petrol Seat Leon, 100 bhp. Hope this helps.

John Alan.

I suspect that car might well struggle on hills. 

I ought to have said that the recomended towing weight quoted by the manufacturer is regarding starting on a 12% incline. You've already checked it's within the 85% ratio recommended by the club. I've got a few more BHP these days, but most of my tow cars have been below or around 100BHP. The Rover Maestro 2.0 ltr diesel packed a punch of around 85 BHP if I remember correctly. I used to tow a yacht up very steep slipways with it. It never missed a beat, but saddly rusted away. British Leyland! Those were the days!

I've certainly towed with smaller cars eg. towed a small Swift with a Rover 214i and it did the job to a certain extent. Took my mother and two children from South Yorks to Pembrokeshire and back one holiday including the hill out of Freshwater East! 

Another question - 100bhp sounds ok but when does the power come in? Presumably at higher revs so you may be slower to 'get off the mark' but who cares. If its safe - go and enjoy.

We also changed from motorhomes to a caravan last year but we chose the tow car ( a large one) to suite the caravan and with room to stow our lece bikes.