Erik G
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 Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2023 6:49 pm Post subject: Re: Type 3 Tow Bar? |
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Jeremy,
I really like the look / design of your tow bar. However, I would recommend making it a little heaver duty, especially where the bar attaches to the frame head unit. My family has been into Volkswagens my whole life, and we had many adventures where we would flat tow a VW. Thus I have seen many scary moments when flat towing. From the towed car having a blowout, to an attachment pin breaking or falling out. When you see a car that is being towed slewing across the lane, it is a very scary moment.
This is especially true if you plan to sell them. You never know what a person may do or forget to do when hooking up, and they could try and hold you liable. |
He's sold a ton of bus tow bars and has a stellar reputation. I've used a bus bar from him and would not hesitate to use it long distance |
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Multi69s
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Joined: January 24, 2006
Posts: 5560
Location: Lefty, CA
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| Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2023 1:11 pm Post subject: Re: Type 3 Tow Bar? |
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That's just me. I've been around VW and high performance vehicles all of my life, so I have probably seen more failures / breakage then the average person.
I really do like the design. There was a lot of thought and work that went into it. I am not bashing it in any way.
However, for myself, I would have made the inner pin mount out of angle, instead of a butt weld. just for a little added strength, and incase the metal starts to tear from a situation like below.
I was driving behind a friend who was flat towing his Baja to the desert, when one of the pins fell out / broke. He was towing it behind his fifth wheel so he couldn't see it. But it scared the hell out of me as it slewed back and force across the lane, with only the single attachment point holding on. By the time I got him on the cell phone, he had started to slow down, because he could "feel" something was off.
Maybe I tend to over engineer things, but as we say in the dirt bike world: " You don't wear the protective gear for the ride, you wear it for the crash".
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