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 Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 3:19 pm Post subject: Re: Can a squareback tow a small travel trailer? |
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| Tvättbjörn wrote: |
The plate go where the hitch bolts onto the body, because the factory metal is too thin to do the job thats why the plates go on top of the factory side panels.
Your hitch looks different in the center. Those 2 mounting taps maybe bolted onto the rear apron for additional support for the tongue weight. Did you by the hitch unit new from a store?
Also the higher weight trailer ( anything over 450kg I think) in Germany has an Automatic Brake System. There is a mechanism in the Coupling section which connects to brake cables. When you hit the brakes the trailer will keep moving forward a few inches and that will actuate the trailer brakes to slow down the trailer. That system is Bulletproof and works. Will be also checked during the safety inspection every two years.
I have never seen electric brakes in Germany like they have here in the US. |
The original instructions for these reinforcement plates from VW actually called for bolting them on... however, I always welded mine for better reinforcement and agree that this is likely how it should have been done.
In the 1960s, we regularly towed a Holiday tent trailer or a motorboat with our Type 3s without issue.
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nynone4
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Location: Central Illinois
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| Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2022 8:39 am Post subject: Re: Can a squareback tow a small travel trailer? |
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| Typ3nut wrote: |
This is the style trailer hitch for your 1971 Squareback, VOA # ZVW 164 301
& VALLEY # VW69W are identical design and have reinforcement plates.
Reinforcement Plates...
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Does anyone make reproductions of these plates.... or have the dimensions / drawings for reproducing them?
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