ROB, It was quite a few years ago when i had a 406 it was a diesel saloon and we towed our coachman pastiche with it. we where right on the limit regards weight and found that the car was ok apart from an obvious lack of power, it really did struggle on some of the hills. however one day on a slightly wet day we aproached the roundabout local to us and although it was claer as we aproched some moron came speeding round almost on two wheels racing his mate without any indication, i braked hard and despite the abs the van just pushed us straight on to the roundabout, we had been travelling at about 15 mph, we had already been discussing changing the car due to the lack of power but this made our minds up, we went straight round the roundabout put the van back on the drive and spent the weekend finding our new car. on this occassion we bought a discovery this was a great car but a little too big for me to use for work so we swopped it for a ford galaxy diesel, this was also a superb car but we now had a coachman laser van and the galaxy only had 115 bhp so we kept it for 18 month and swapped it 4 weeks ago for a seat alhambra diesel which has 130 bhp, its only 15 bhp more but what a difference. I know ive gone on a bit but ive tried to illustrate that a little extra bhp goes a long way to a happy relaxed tow and with your van being a similar weight to our old pastiche i would hate for you to end up in the same situation. they are a great tow cars with a good match but i would be carefull with anything a bit heavy like your van.
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