antnee
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Registered: 30th Dec 07
Location: Cov Drives: Clio 197
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What happens with weights when towing with an A frame?
Does it count as braked/unbraked? does it not matter so much?
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scottyp1989
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Registered: 29th Jul 07
Location: Warley, West Midlands
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Will be classed as an unbraked trailer so car cant be over 750kg, they are only supposed to be used for recovery
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Ben J
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Registered: 31st Jan 05
Location: Cheshire
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Yeah meant to only be recovery but I know a guy who has towed his autotest/sprint mini for years with one no probs.
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scottyp1989
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Registered: 29th Jul 07
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Iv used one for quite a while with no probs, bought cars back from southampton etc but u got to take the risk, i wouldnt use it anymore tho
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Mike
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Registered: 20th May 06
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Yeah you can use anything if you want to take the risk but if you want to keep within the law, they're for recovery.
Edit: And obviously being outside of the law can have other consequences than just being caught.
[Edited on 12-11-2011 by Mike B]
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Ben J
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If you get pulled surely you just say you have "recovered" whatever you are towing?
The guy I know has been using one for about 20 years lol.
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Mike
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If you're more than 10 miles from your cars registered address I'd say you'd struggle to argue the recovery case. More so if you're on the way home from a track 100 miles from home.
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