Government report on trailers.

[Buckman]

Last year, I bought a cable attachment point as my TowTrust towbar did not have an attachment point.

Trailer Safety Cable Mounting Plate, Breakaway Cable Plate, Eye, Trailer Bracket | eBay

Mounting bracket for fixing a breakaway chain or cable to on unbraked trailers. Can be mounted on the tow vehicle to clip the breakaway cable to, using standard towball fixing bolts. Can also be used to support breakaway cables from dragging the ground on braked trailers.

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Yours must be quite old as the one we had fitted in 2018 had the attachment point and same with the one fitted in Sept last year. I must admit though that the new tow bar is a fixed tow hitch and the attachment point is hard to connect to on the plate due to the gap being a bit large although the hole is large enough. Hole should have been closer to the side of the plate.

 

[RogerL]

Yours must be quite old as the one we had fitted in 2018 had the attachment point and same with the one fitted in Sept last year. I must admit though that the new tow bar is a fixed tow hitch and the attachment point is hard to connect to on the plate due to the gap being a bit large although gthe hole is large enough. Hole should have been closer to the side of the plate.

I believe the attachment point is madatory on new cars and new towbars from 1st Jan 2018 - so yes, in that sense my Touareg is now "old", nearly 8 years old.

 

[figbat]

My V90 also has this but if doing it alone you don't get much time to get from the drivers seat to the back of the caravan to see it!

If it's like our XC40, and the XC60 before it, the check system cycles until you stop it. So if you missed the first round you wait a few seconds and it starts again. We always do this on hookup (plus, of course, the car will detect and warn about a failed bulb).

 

[Raywood]

Same here with a Westfalia swan neck, the tow bar has an eyelet for the job, those who do not have one can wrap the cable around the tow bar.

 

[otherclive]

Same here with a Westfalia swan neck, the tow bar has an eyelet for the job, those who do not have one can wrap the cable around the tow bar.

I had a Witter tow bar on a Superb and the cable attachment hole wasn't large enough to use with the caravans breakaway cable. . So I bought climbing carabiner that would go through the hole, which then allowed me to use the later type of breakaway cable that doesn't require to be fed back on itself.

 

[Beachball]

Same here with a Westfalia swan neck, the tow bar has an eyelet for the job, those who do not have one can wrap the cable around the tow bar.

My Tiguan had a Westfalia detachable swan neck towbar had a eyelet and we use to just clip the cable on