hi all,
while sitting here with insomnia going through the posts written in the archives and relating to this thread after reading it again I realised a omission that I had intended to write in my last post.
regarding newbies towing high ratios, that is while my last combination with the megane was nearly 97% and a one point only 25kg under the gross train weght it did tow beautifully in the 3 years I towed with it. I did both ends of the country from st austell to ullapool and margate to anglesey, which is nothing new exept on one trip to dornoch our daughter came with us with the Sil unfortunatly I was taken ill comming up to the last weekend and my daughter had to drive us home as I could not, she had never driven with a van in tow ever, but we arrived home in a time that I would have been proud of without any problems en route save for stopping every 50miles for me, it is not that there is anything special about this event, exept to say that although 97% was not ideal and that she coped with it, but rather than it was the loading, balance and stability of the combo that made it possible not the ratio as if that was the case we would not have got home.
while at it speaking of ratios it is by sheer fluke and coinsidence that the new meriva @ 1446kg to the bailey is a 73% match and something I am not used to, wonder what it tows like?? I tell you when we get back in may,
colin
while sitting here with insomnia going through the posts written in the archives and relating to this thread after reading it again I realised a omission that I had intended to write in my last post.
regarding newbies towing high ratios, that is while my last combination with the megane was nearly 97% and a one point only 25kg under the gross train weght it did tow beautifully in the 3 years I towed with it. I did both ends of the country from st austell to ullapool and margate to anglesey, which is nothing new exept on one trip to dornoch our daughter came with us with the Sil unfortunatly I was taken ill comming up to the last weekend and my daughter had to drive us home as I could not, she had never driven with a van in tow ever, but we arrived home in a time that I would have been proud of without any problems en route save for stopping every 50miles for me, it is not that there is anything special about this event, exept to say that although 97% was not ideal and that she coped with it, but rather than it was the loading, balance and stability of the combo that made it possible not the ratio as if that was the case we would not have got home.
while at it speaking of ratios it is by sheer fluke and coinsidence that the new meriva @ 1446kg to the bailey is a 73% match and something I am not used to, wonder what it tows like?? I tell you when we get back in may,
colin