lampa Posted March 12, 2011 Report Share Posted March 12, 2011 Portable 2.5 ton Recovery A Frame for Towing Vehicles Single handedly. Only used once since bought in January so in Mint Condition, but what an excellent piece of kit this is, not to be confused with the cheap chinese imports with a weak pressed steel hitch. Fits to ANY vehicle in less than 5 Minutes The Spec: A 2500 KG towing capacity recovery unit that controls the direction of the towed vehicle in a similar manner to towing a trailer, so that no second driver is required. When not in use it folds down to fit in the boot of the towing vehicle. The units are made from high quality tubing with high tensile components and fullyzinc electro plated. The attachment to the broken down vehicle is via a combination of high tensile chains and heavy duty strap assemblies. Hot dip galvanized in a zinc gold electro plated 50x50 and 40x40 box section 5 Tonne ratchet+ straps 5 point adjustable to fit most cars different size car/van 7 Tonne chain High Tensile Bolts Heavy Duty Cast Iron 50mm ball tow hitch as standard Portable fold away neatly in the boot Towing Capacity: 2500kg Weight: Approx 36kg Cost me £245 new in January Bargain @ £160 Posted - Will Send by Next Day Courier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SniperR10 Posted March 12, 2011 Report Share Posted March 12, 2011 Hi Lampa, What a great piece of kit I have the same model and agree it is a solid piece of kit. I have owned it for 2 or 3 years now and have recovered several vehicles including 4x4's with it including one very heavy Shogun lwb. It always gets people’s attention when the towed vehicle is being self steered I have saved family and friends lots of money in recovery charges using this piece of equipment. I am in the AA but have used it to recover my wife car as the AA was going to be over an hour, As you say its quick I had the wife delivered to where she was going ontime and the car towed to the garage and was home in just over an hour. One thing I will point out is the legal side of using this I think as a temporary emergency recovery it is ok but for long time use on say back of a motor home to tow a second car anything over 750kg needs to be braked. If your vehicle being towed is over 750kg you can get a conversion which applies the vehicle being towed brakes. I know when i purchased mine they never told me this and I guess it was my fault for not checking but this 'A frame' attached to a vehicle makes the vehicle being towed into the classification of a trailer. So the following applies. Trailer Maximum Weights Type 01: unbraked trailers - max. 750kg gross trailer weight or half the towing vehicle's kerb weight - whichever is less. Type 02: trailers on overrun brakes - max. 3500kg gross trailer weight Not trying to ruining your chances of a sale but I don’t want people to be in the same boat as me as i purchased mine to tow my wife’s Audi behind a motor home only to find out it was illegal. But used as a recovery frame as i said previously excellent well built piece of kit and very strong and easy to use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lampa Posted March 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2011 Thanks for your input mate and I quite agree with the information you have provided and I should of pointed this out. I was told at the time of purchase that its really only suitable for vehicle recovery as opposed to permanently towing behind a motorhome etc with anything that weighed more than 750kg, hence the reason why people use lightweight cars such as Axiams etc in order to get around this. As per my thread heading, I'm advertising it as a Vehicle Recovery A Frame and it goes without saying that you should never try towing anything that is actually heavier than the tow vehicle itself (The Tail Wagging the Dog Syndrome). When I bought the A frame I used it to recover my wifes Ford Fusion behind my Toyota Avensis estate on an 130 mile journey up the M6 and despite being seen on a couple of occasions by the police I was never bothered by them and I did things properly, Trailer lighting board, Magnetic ON TOW sticker etc, now if I'd of been towing a Transit van behind me then things would of been entirely different. Another area that has been debated in the past is the MOT & Tax status of the vehicle you are towing, people argue that the vehicle you are towing must be Taxed and MOT'd, this is not the case as already pointed out the vehicle theoretically becomes a trailer,for which no MOT or Tax is required. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacksdad Posted March 12, 2011 Report Share Posted March 12, 2011 I've had this debate before! Mr smart@@@@ said it was illegal to tow a vehicle that had no MOT, I said rubbish, its being towed so its a trailer. Plus, who would the police prosecute....there's no-one driving it :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bigstevouk Posted March 12, 2011 Report Share Posted March 12, 2011 Off the dvla website >>> Towing a car using an A-frame or dollyIf you attach an A-frame to a car in order to tow it with a larger vehicle, the car plus A-frame counts as a trailer. If you use a dolly to tow a broken-down vehicle, the dolly counts as a trailer. In both cases the usual safety regulations for trailers apply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SniperR10 Posted March 12, 2011 Report Share Posted March 12, 2011 Nice one Jacksdad Glad I didn’t mention I had towed swb Ford transit with mine :o this A-Frame is solid as a rock. I only towed the transit as It was a real emergency. A night out on the beer and my Jeep left 25 miles from home and no one to give me a lift to go get the Jeep so I just slung the A-Frame in back of my Transit drove to where I had left the jeep attached the A-Frame to front of Transit and towed it back home with the Jeep... job done and no extortionate taxi fares.... I in no way condone doing the above but at the time I wasn’t sure if it was ok to tow the transit but when I looked in the jeeps handbook and it said max tow weight 3500kg’s I thought no worries I think I looked at the transit and it was only about 2500kg’s. But I now know that the 3500kg’s stated in the handbook is what it can pull max on a 12deg incline and not what is safe to tow. So now I stick to keeping within the 85% of my vehicle weight which I do have written down somewhere. But it is nowhere near 3500kg’s probably about half that. Good luck with the sale. Still chuckling at Jacksdad comment on no driver prosecute :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacksdad Posted March 13, 2011 Report Share Posted March 13, 2011 I live about a mile from the makers who supply the RAC...got my frame 'cash' very cheap! My mate drove a car from Edinburgh to Manchester, when returning, we towed the car (almera) back, picked up his dead Toyota MR2 and towed it back, I've got a LWB Renault Master van so was really easy, I would recommend anyone who tinkers with cars etc. to invest in this item, use it once and its paid for! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lampa Posted March 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2011 Provisionally Sold Pending Payment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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