ken555
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| posted on 20/6/15 at 09:23 PM |
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VOSA won't like this one / Trailer Accident
VOSA
won't like this one
He was towing a Shadow which will have weighed in at around 2,000 kg, add a trailer of say 500 - 750 kg, and his towing vehicle was a RAV 4.
The permitted towing weight for the RAV is between 1,500 and 1,800, he was massively over-weight and he was expecting to get to Spain like this!
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CosKev3
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| posted on 20/6/15 at 09:28 PM |
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Poor old car 
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mark chandler
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| posted on 20/6/15 at 10:21 PM |
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it must have looked horribly overloaded, I dragged some heavy cars behind my range rovers but a RAV 4 is an accident waiting to happen...... And it
did.
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morcus
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| posted on 21/6/15 at 12:16 AM |
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Still looks alright from the back...
In a White Room, With Black Curtains, By the Station.
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steve m
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| posted on 21/6/15 at 07:39 AM |
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I also wondered how his insurance claim will read, and will they pay out?
Thats was probably spelt wrong, or had some grammer, that the "grammer police have to have a moan at
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kj
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| posted on 21/6/15 at 07:56 AM |
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Not a bad reg number
Think about it, think about it again and then do it.
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 21/6/15 at 08:32 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by steve m
I also wondered how his insurance claim will read, and will they pay out?
The article says the Rolls was not insured.
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rf900rush
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| posted on 21/6/15 at 08:58 AM |
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Best Towing Rav 4 I found is the Toyota RAV4 2.0 VVT-i 2000Kg braked towing.
Rolls plus trailer is still to much. Unless it has no eninge.
I guess we have all done silly things in the past, but if it is over weight, the driver is a comlete moron on this one.
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Slimy38
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| posted on 21/6/15 at 09:17 AM |
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I was wondering what could have towed that sort of thing, 2.5 tons towing weight must limit it to only a handful of vehicles.
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HowardB
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| posted on 21/6/15 at 10:33 AM |
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Breakdown truck or Range Rover would be sensible. But probably cost him less if he'd payed to ship it...
Howard
Fisher Fury was 2000 Zetec - now a 1600 (it Lives again  and goes zoom)
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INDY BIRD
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| posted on 21/6/15 at 02:14 PM |
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How do we know if the trailer he was towing with was capable of taking the weight of the rolls Royce weight, could be overloaded for the trailer as
well?
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britishtrident
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| posted on 21/6/15 at 03:04 PM |
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Probably over the weight limit for towing with the ball hitch as well.
[Edited on 21/6/15 by britishtrident]
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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morcus
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| posted on 21/6/15 at 03:48 PM |
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If the car was a runner he probably would have been better off taxing and insuring it and driving it down.
In a White Room, With Black Curtains, By the Station.
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