I personally wouldn't. I towed car about an hour and a half and it was nothing but stressful. If I exceed 80kmph the trailer started weaving back and forth. We had as much weight forward as possible, but it was still terrifying. Be prepared to fork out alot of money for gas too and depending how many times you need to stop and start perhaps a new clutch too.
well you will be okay if you get a good trailer then, but be careful and whatever you do DONT put the car on backwards.
Nah you just do want too much weight at the back of the trailer or it will start weaving like I was telling you about before. Seeing as front is heavier than the back of the car, put the front of the car on the front of the trailer. I guess if the engine is at the rear of the car you would want to put it on backwards but someone should confirm that for me remember if you are holding up traffic to pull over safely and let them pass, you dont want people getting impatient and making dangerous passing manurers.
Make sure you balance the weight so it's on the trailer axles, not the tow ball of the car. Back of the car shouldn't sag. And make sure the brakes on the trailer work.
I think it's 10% or 20% of the weight on the car, I've towed with a vs v6 auto sedan and was fine, but I would advise to not exceed 80kph, you will find that comfortable pace. I've also towed a few times with the old Holden and 202 3sp manual, not as much weight though and the clutch was fine, it's only if you ride your clutch a lot from stand still
Haha, thats funny. I was towing a R32, bloody heavy car for their size mate not far off a commodore lol
It will do that if you have to much weight forward as well. The trailer will only sway if you have loaded it wrong it's all about balance.
Just sit on 80/90k to be safe, towed heaps with a old falcon 5 speed ute, had no problems, towing about 2/3 ton is good, anything over that you have problems
That may be true, but I could only do 60Kmph without breaking into a cold sweat! So we pushed the car further forward onto the trailer so then I could do 80 without driving a death snake. BTW I wouldn't do 100 towing a trailer, VR commodore has poor brakes even before you hitch another car on the back.
I've towed heaps of cars in my time with a few different tow cars even a vn and have bein able to sit on the speed limit in every car and have never had a issue in doing so so I'm not sure why all you are worried about doin 100 once you know it's loaded and not gonna sway there is no reason you can't tow at the speed limit.
The road I traveled with another commi in tow, is prone to major cross winds, and being the 1st time I'd towed a car, I wasn't taking chances. But still sat comfortably on 80-90kph.
Yeh doing the speed limit is fine, I'v done it. It when you need to stop in a hurry thats a problem! When you have a trailer there is always people trying to pull out in front of you because they dont want to be held up. Also doing a 9 hour trip ( more likely to be 10 -11 hour ) you will be on road you are unfamiliar with with corners that will be tighter than they look, road works, steep hills. Might point is dont be a hero and try be all manly doing the speed 100k the entire way. All it takes is one false move and then you are inside a 3 ton coffin doing 100kmph and that you have absolutely no control over .
If you read my posts I was just telling the op that there is no reason he can't sit on 100 pretty much all other replies said not to even your first post was about your towing with the trailer loaded wrong and it swayed I'm just pointing if it's loaded rite and conditions are rite you can sit on the speed limit all day.
