Hi everybody,
Our storage facility is right inbetween two roads with an incline of around 40 degrees. The first time we took our caravan to the storage site we had to wait out side for the bloke to arrive to talk us through.
It was only after about five minutes of sitting in the car and facing UP this hill that the though occured to me that I will need to a serious hill start to get moving.(Dooogh). I though it best to try this before the bloke arrived to save a bit of face. I tried to pull away the once, stalling the car badly so gave it up, reversed the car & caravan 100 yeards back down the hill and round the courner. I then went up the other side in first gear, round the back and down so I was now facing down the hill ready for the bloke to arrive.
My question is this :- Should I be able to pull away on such a steep hill or is this vertualy impossible. I only tried it once because I didn't want to burn my clutch being in such an awkward possition and all.
Is there a technique or would I need a 4X4 for this kind of towing.
My caravan is a Sterling Eccles Moonstone(1465 MPTLW) and my car is a 2.0 TDCI Mondeo(115bph).
Thank you all again in advance for any tips on this.
Regards
Gary
Our storage facility is right inbetween two roads with an incline of around 40 degrees. The first time we took our caravan to the storage site we had to wait out side for the bloke to arrive to talk us through.
It was only after about five minutes of sitting in the car and facing UP this hill that the though occured to me that I will need to a serious hill start to get moving.(Dooogh). I though it best to try this before the bloke arrived to save a bit of face. I tried to pull away the once, stalling the car badly so gave it up, reversed the car & caravan 100 yeards back down the hill and round the courner. I then went up the other side in first gear, round the back and down so I was now facing down the hill ready for the bloke to arrive.
My question is this :- Should I be able to pull away on such a steep hill or is this vertualy impossible. I only tried it once because I didn't want to burn my clutch being in such an awkward possition and all.
Is there a technique or would I need a 4X4 for this kind of towing.
My caravan is a Sterling Eccles Moonstone(1465 MPTLW) and my car is a 2.0 TDCI Mondeo(115bph).
Thank you all again in advance for any tips on this.
Regards
Gary