Recent content by Ken3

Folks. Thanks for your comments, got the towbar fitted and took the van away for the weekend, towed our ace with no problem at all, even up hill was no effort, more that enough horse power and with ONLY 98bhp? MPG was terrific, 1248kg is the 85% loading on the car apparently, so even with our...

Anyone been to this site? booked in for a few days next month, apparently it's not recomended to come from the M6 side as the roads are so narrow but to come via the A1 is this correct? just a little concerned about the road into Hawes. Any advice greatfully recieved. Thanks Kenny

Hi Al Thanks for your comments, There doesn't appear to be many folk in this forum who use this car model for towing. Still getting the towbar fitted next week so will try it out as soon as, if it doesn't perform I'll tweek the engine a bit.

Hi Folks. First off, hope everyone has a good and safe caravaning season. We've just bought ourselves a new tow car. Car is a 04 plate Vectra turbo diesel 2.0 DTI SXI 5 door hatchback, kerb weight is 1470kg 85%=1250kg. It will be towing our 2002 Ace Jubilee Ambassador 2 berth, mtplm =1247kg...

Folks It's the Skye bridge that is now free, but Erskine bridge still charges 60p per car even with a van on it's still only 60p. Ken