wats the heaviest you have towed behind an L series?

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Post by PeeJay » Tue Dec 18, 2007 6:56 pm

I towed a 1.2 tonne unbraked trailer once in an RX. Acceleration was amazingly good, but stopping was rather interesting. I didn't go faster than 60 for obvious reasons and took the back streets.
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Post by batesy » Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:45 pm

yeah not gonna do it guys, gonna use a fairmont.. that should be ok....

alpine raven... where did ya find black ice on the st. andrews rd? how long ago? hasn really been cold enough up here for a few years to get black ice on thatrd?? mustve been scary,,

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Post by AlpineRaven » Tue Dec 18, 2007 8:19 pm

batesy wrote:yeah not gonna do it guys, gonna use a fairmont.. that should be ok....

alpine raven... where did ya find black ice on the st. andrews rd? how long ago? hasn really been cold enough up here for a few years to get black ice on thatrd?? mustve been scary,,

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That was in very early Saturday morning in August last year approx 7am - It was slightly halfway from Kinglake to St Andrews, was going around slight corner approx 30kmh for it to happen, the rears lost its traction possibly due LSD locking up - who knows, yeah it was scary experience (was thinking the worst to happen - Hill!) because it could have been worse as I could have ended up the bottom of the hill so I lost control in good spot anyway and I should have listed that I should have gone to Whittlesea rather St Andrews way.
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Subarus that I have/had:
1995 Liberty "Rallye" - 5MT AWD, LSD - *written off 25/8/06 in towing accident.
1996 Liberty Wagon - SkiFX AWD 5MT D/R, Lifted.. Outback Sway Bar, 1.59:1 Low Gearing see thread: 1.59:1 in EJ Box Page
Sold at 385,000kms in July 2011.
2007 Liberty BP Wagon, 2.5i automatic
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Post by The Bigfella » Tue Dec 18, 2007 8:34 pm

Yep - trailer accident in NSW yesterday - 5 dead
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Post by batesy » Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:09 pm

AlpineRaven wrote:That was in very early Saturday morning in August last year approx 7am - It was slightly halfway from Kinglake to St Andrews, was going around slight corner approx 30kmh for it to happen, the rears lost its traction possibly due LSD locking up - who knows, yeah it was scary experience (was thinking the worst to happen - Hill!) because it could have been worse as I could have ended up the bottom of the hill so I lost control in good spot anyway and I should have listed that I should have gone to Whittlesea rather St Andrews way.
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ah ok sounds scary.... black ice is bad enough without a trailer full of bricks hey... cheers
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