Caravan tow car advice

norm75 Part of things Posts: 658	Caravan tow car advice norm75 @norm75
	Aug 17, 2021 19:19:46 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	The wife and I bought a caravan from a friend that lost her husband during lockdown and I need advice on towing limits. The caravan in road trim weighs 840kg, with a max loaded weight of 1060kg. I need to get a tow bar fitted to one of our vehicles to tow it, but due to having my license revoked about 15 years ago I lost my grandfather rights to drive up to 7.5t I have a Volvo v50 2.0d that is one option, and also have a Mercedes Vito 109 lwb as another, but my father in law has offered to give us his Mitsubishi shogun 3.2 di-d lwb which already has a tow bar fitted. Am I right in thinking the overall train weight would be taken as the weight of caravan at 1060kg + maximum loaded weight of shogun (I can only find max laden weight of swb at 2654kg) which would be too heavy for my license?


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Implandy Part of things Posts: 271	Caravan tow car advice Implandy @supaimpy
	Aug 17, 2021 19:34:12 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Licences issued from 1 January 1997 If you passed your car driving test on or after 1 January 1997 you can: drive a car or van up to 3,500kg maximum authorised mass (MAM) towing a trailer of up to 750kg MAM tow a trailer over 750kg MAM as long as the combined MAM of the trailer and towing vehicle is no more than 3,500kg MAM is the limit on how much the vehicle can weigh when it’s loaded. So Shogun 2654 + 1060 puts you overweight Vito I seem to remember goes at about 2800 so that won't work either, don't know the Volvo's weight or capacities
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kevins Posted a lot Posts: 4,678	Caravan tow car advice kevins @kevins
	Aug 23, 2021 20:41:09 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	You need to look at the sticker in the door shut with the weights on it, there should be 4 numbers, max gross vehicle weight (the second highest number) max gross train weight (the highest number) max front axle load max rear axle load For your caravan and licence the max gross vehicle weight needs to be less than 2440kg and the max gross train weight needs to be enough for the loaded car plus the caravan. (higher than 3500kg won't matter as that just means someone with a trailer licence can tow a heavier trailer)


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