Recent content by nic

I don't feel soon fed at all. I asked about the weights, I certainly don't need guilt trips about putting my family at risk. I prefer clear, factual answers, easy. Usually happy to get into a discussion if need be but yeah the will to participate was gone by then. The bit above that you quoted...

😂😂😂 each individual term may well be well defined, but the overall towing weights, limits clearly isn't well defined or it wouldn't take 2 pages, so far, of replies!

And here was me thinking we were being dense for not understanding the thousands of conflicting guidelines we'd read. Yep, definitely feel like I stepped on a landmine, still there was some helpful info in among the patronising replies (no of course I wouldn't want to jeopardise my...

Thanks. The numbers I quoted are definitely correct, my problem was I couldn't find an explanation of why the 500kg difference, or why the caravan recommendation was against the lower number. Also not sure why the Tow Car awards would award the passat repeatedly because 85% of 1500kg is a...

thanks for the replies, helps to make some sense of it all. So basically the car can tow loads but caravans may need a lower limit because they're relatively blunt object and are more prone to sidewinds, ok thanks. Most of the caravans we're looking at are around 1600kgs, so with a kerbweight...

hi, Apologies in advance if this has been asked before, I've had a search and can't find it. We have a 2litre diesel Passat estate and are trying to figure out what size of caravan we can tow. Kerbweight is 1500kg. Tech Permissible Max Towing Mass is 2000kg (braked). Gross Train Weight is...