wats the heaviest you have towed behind an L series?

batesy · Post by **batesy** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 7:12 pm

anyone towed a car trailer and big car behind an L series before? howed it go?
big car as in a swb patrol??

cheers

Post by **Captain Obvious** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 7:15 pm

3 words DONT DO IT, it may tow it slowly but will never stop if you need to try!!

Gannon · Post by **Gannon** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 7:22 pm

Most importantly, does your trailer have brakes? and do they work?

Ive towed a 3x4 box trailer full of wet dirt (woulda been close to 1/2 ton)
The road was wet so i used 4WD.
But i wouldnt tow much more without brakes.

batesy · Post by **batesy** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 7:24 pm

yeah trailer is braked... its a long tow though... from draman to kinglake... bout 2 hours

Matatak · Post by **Matatak** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 7:32 pm

in a stocko Lseries??

i wuldnt

but sayin that if i needed to id put mine into the reins and tow away..but mine aint stock either. (and not an Lseries

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D3V1L · Post by **D3V1L** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:05 pm

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i towed my wrx TWICE with my car trailer behind alex L series wagon..and thats got an ej22 and all sorts...new trailer with new brakes and all that ****...the tow bar DID NOT LIKE IT!!!
and some smart **** cut me off in a lancer and let me tell u the car keeps going...get somebody with a bigger car to do it

total weight with my trailer and rex would have been around 1.5 tonnes easily...io got a king daddy car trailer

dave

vincentvega · Post by **vincentvega** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:16 pm

i once towed 1 ton of wet concrete with my 82 bluebird

i also towed an RX shell and a lib frontcut shell on a trailer with the same car

neither were good ideas... it was bloody stupid looking back on it

Post by **Alex** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:17 pm

andrew towed my liberty wreck(whole car) and a BIG trailer...

alex

AlpineRaven · Post by **AlpineRaven** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:18 pm

Don't bother doing with it mate.. If the weight of behind you is excess than your car - is way too risky and dangerous. I am telling you from experience. (Had bricks in un-braked trailer coming down from Kinglake via St. Andrews and i lost control due black ice and the weight of the trailer was excess (1.1 ton) and wrote off the car, trailer is fine)
Cheers
AP

The Bigfella · Post by **The Bigfella** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:30 pm

Hmmm not a single comment on the legality of it eh?

Combined weight of car and trailer cannot exceed weight of tow vehicle when 2wd vehicle towing. Don't 4wd vehicles get an extra allowance though?

mattl200 · Post by **mattl200** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:40 pm

thought my/lseries were limited to 550kg towing 55kg downward on the towbar have never found out if theres a braked towing rating though

Lapsed · Post by **Lapsed** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 10:23 pm

I've towed several L series and liberty's hehehe can I name names

D3V1L · Post by **D3V1L** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 10:29 pm

youve dragged chris..theres a difference:P

Lapsed · Post by **Lapsed** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 10:42 pm

Dragged, towed it the same really just different levels of damage....

AndrewT · Post by **AndrewT** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 12:42 am

D3V1L wrote:NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i towed my wrx TWICE with my car trailer behind alex L series wagon..and thats got an ej22 and all sorts...new trailer with new brakes and all that ****...the tow bar DID NOT LIKE IT!!!
and some smart **** cut me off in a lancer and let me tell u the car keeps going...get somebody with a bigger car to do it

total weight with my trailer and rex would have been around 1.5 tonnes easily...io got a king daddy car trailer

dave

Funny Dave - u rekoned it was fine back then!

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D3V1L wrote:
wanky wagon towed it fine....no suspension brake issues

dave

But seriously, yeah, you're much better off getting somebody with a far bigger vehicle to do it. I've done it on a few occasions (moving my RX7's, bringing my Gen1 Lib home, Moving Alex's Gen1 Lib etc). My mate's car trailer is about 1 tonne unlaiden, do the maths!
You really have to keep your wits about you and plan far in advance for things like....slowing down.
It's definitely very illegal - the towing vehicle is supposed to weigh at least 1.5 times as much as the total weight you are towing behind you.

subanator · Post by **subanator** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 3:26 am

I towed a car trailer with a dismantled shed on it along South West HWY behing the stocko 1981 MY, EA81 in summer too for about a 250km round trip. I sat on 100kmh unladen and 80 on the way back. Mind you there were no real hills on this journey. Was a bit of effort to get off the mark, but did it ok.
My brothers Landcruiser blew a uni-joint the day before, as this was going to be the tow vehicle.

Xtreme_RX · Post by **Xtreme_RX** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:50 am

'L' Series are rated at 1000Kg Tow MAX!

D3V1L · Post by **D3V1L** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 8:01 am

yeh ive since realised how dangerous it was....after 2 minor little near misses :P.....

The Bigfella · Post by **The Bigfella** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 9:32 am

Yep 2 near misses - and if you hadn't missed, they'd stick you in the big house and throw away the key for ten years.

AlpineRaven · Post by **AlpineRaven** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 5:11 pm

I know its not L series, but while we're on this topic of what will happen if you have an trailer that is over your car's weight....
Here are the photos of what the overload trailer did and black ice as well which cause to jack knife the Liberty & trailer. Photos tells you all of what kind of damage would happen with overloaded rated trailer for your car. I choose to write it off because its AWD and it was banana shaped and the frame was twisted and the repair was $8500.
Cheers
AP

Picture of dented areas -

Underbody - on the right is where the spare tyre is.