Towing a BX with BX

adamskibx · Post by **adamskibx** » Thu May 10, 2007 1:49 pm

Wow good collection story. Stewart thats amazing about towing a Shogun! When I collected the GT my dad towed me home using his Shogun, and I could hear the autobox go into kick-down just to get me up some of the hills on the way back, so if a Shogun struggles to tow a BX, then a TD BX is obviously a very good towing engine!

Post by **docchevron** » Thu May 10, 2007 1:52 pm

stuart_hedges wrote:Psst! It's a Citroen.

Hate to be pedantic (ok, actually I dont, but ya know), but it's

Citroën

just for completeness....¬!

adamskibx · Post by **adamskibx** » Thu May 10, 2007 9:39 pm

You can find the ë in the Character map in Windows. Just hit start, run, type "charmap" and hit enter.

kiwi · Post by **kiwi** » Thu May 10, 2007 11:37 pm

adamskibx wrote:You can find the ë in the Character map in Windows. Just hit start, run, type "charmap" and hit enter.

.

Something new I just learn

Stewart (oily!) · Post by **Stewart (oily!)** » Fri May 11, 2007 10:42 am

Another towing epic tale was when I was bringing a donated GTI back home, towing with a rope behind my GTI/TD, I pulled away across a roundabout, gently as I thought, next thing there was coolant all over the road, I had pulled the front crossmember off,

complete with bumper and the bottom of the rad, there were spotlamps and mud all over the road!, inspection revealed that the spot welds had all failed, the crossmember was solid enough, so that car turned in an instant from a project to a parts car, I now tow using a solid bar or a piece of climbing rope which has a bit of give in it (I was using a lump of Kevlar rope which is unbelievably tough)
Stewart

kiwi · Post by **kiwi** » Sat May 12, 2007 10:13 am

What a lovely View on the way to pick up the Donor car. See the kind of terrain between me and that volcanoe the base of which was my destination

Hmmm dont think this car was so lucky

Spotted this wreak about 100m down a bank on one of the saddles we went over, they obviously took a wrong turn

jeremy · Post by **jeremy** » Sat May 12, 2007 10:19 am

Now if that was in the UK you'd know it had been stolen and 'disposed of'

BXOurane · Post by **BXOurane** » Mon May 14, 2007 10:10 pm

It works quite well to tow a BX with another BX.

I have done it several times already with my TurboD and I have to say: Nothing to complain about! Although the trailer is a bit of "overweight" for the BX (600kgs for the trailer + about 1000kgs for the BX upon it) thats about 400kgs more than allowed for a BX

Yes i know that this is not really "allowed" and according to my job I shouldnt even say that I ve done it already

>>Frederic

kiwi · Post by **kiwi** » Tue May 15, 2007 5:10 am

Be interesting to see what happened over a 300metre climb in a very short distance.
My mate told me even in the recovery truck loaded he watches nervously as the Temp Gauge climbs like the gradiant and has often been to cars on those two nasty hills.
The advice to me was its ok with a trip to town but where i was going it was suicide for the car.

tim leech · Post by **tim leech** » Tue May 15, 2007 9:14 am

I like that bronzey colour!

MULLEY · Post by **MULLEY** » Tue May 15, 2007 11:33 pm

Thats a weird colour, cant decide whether it looks quite retro, or its just metalic turd