how much can a sportrak tow

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Hi can anyone tell me how much weight a sportrak can tow. We are buying one for my daughter as her first car and I am wondering if I will be able to tow with it?
thanks for your help

Pulls our 865kg 4 berth carav

Pulls our 865kg 4 berth caravan easily enough. It also helped pull a tree stump out last weekend Smile

Dave with a Sporty

Dave with a Sporty

Motorsport Box

I towed a motorsport racing trailer, which had a Volvo S60 Touring Car in it. The total weight came to around 2300-2400kgs.

It was at a race circuit, so I didn't have to worry about the legal weight limit.

Once it got going, it was fine, although I wouldn't have wanted to take it on to the public roads, as the braking was dramatically reduced, and it went down to 15 mph going uphill, but saying that, my mates Range Rover could only get up to 25 mph.

Isn't there a restriction now

Isn't there a restriction now as to max weight, a person who has passed their test in recent years, can tow Unknw

Paul Humphries.

Towing and age

I got some info from the DVLA website.

If you passed your test before 1 January 1997, you are allowed to drive a vehicle and trailer combination up to 8.25 tonnes.

If you passed after 1 January 1997, your vehicle can be coupled with a trailer up to 750kgs, allowing a combined weight up to 4.25 tonnes OR a trailer over 750kgs provided the gross weight of the trailer does not exceed the unladen weight of the towing vehicle, and the combination does not exceed 3.5 tonnes.

Subject: Towing and age Aut

Subject: Towing and age
Author: willives
Date: Mon, 03/07/2006 - 18:31

I got some info from the DVLA website.
If you passed your test before 1 January 1997, you are allowed to drive a vehicle and trailer combination up to 8.25 tonnes.
If you passed after 1 January 1997, your vehicle can be coupled with a trailer up to 750kgs, allowing a combined weight up to 4.25 tonnes OR a trailer over 750kgs provided the gross weight of the trailer does not exceed the unladen weight of the towing vehicle, and the combination does not exceed 3.5 tonnes.

Agreed, BUT the vehicle being used has an upper limit to how much it can tow. Basically has to be less than the vehicles weight, for braking etc.

Mud makes excellent Toothpaste.