Tow Bar
Hi, could someone give me advice on which tow bar to get for a Puck. Should we get a stabiliser?
We have a Honda FRV but wasn't sure which one to get. We've found a company that can hit them but don't want to be given the hard sell.
Should we get a lock too?
Electric connections between caravan and car are either 2 x 7 pin plugs or 1 x 13 pin plug so maybe best to wait until you find a van and see what type it has, stabilisers are sometimes built into the caravan hitch, also a Puck is so light you probably won't need one anyway.
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I would go for 13 pin electrics on the car every time. 13 pin is backwards compatible with the potentially less reliable twin socket set-up used on older caravans by using an adaptor, and if the van you get is already 13 pin everything will work straight away.
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This is an AL-KO towball.
Towsure do an AL-KO type ball which is cheaper, and since they all have to meet stringent standards there's no reason to think it wouldn't be just as good as the kosher AL-KO job.
If it were me I think I might ask them how much the standard ball is, and enquire politely as to whether they might consider knocking that off the 35 notes extra they say the AL-KO one costs. You can get an AL-KO elsewhere for less than £35, and it's not as if they'd chuck the standard one in the bin, after all...
If you got an AL-KO (or an AL-KO type) you could use it for any kind of 50mm hitch, stabilised or not. You're covering all the bases for what should be a minimal outlay.
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Quote: Randa france wrote in post #7An excellent picture. Cracking balls
I think this is a useful pic for comparing balls :-
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Quote: Randa france wrote in post #7You show me yours and I'll show you mine? Not likely! (I knew there was something wrong down there.)
I think this is a useful pic for comparing balls :-
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I had a Puck with no stabiliser, I never had any big issues with it even when we hit a diesel spillage on the motorway. It just did a little wiggle and straightened up again when I took my foot of the accelerator. Been devils advocate maybe if it had been fitted with a stabiliser would it have wiggled so much?
I have had ALKO stabilisers since on my Familia 320s and I like the extra safety that they give especially with it been a larger heavier van, I have never had any issues even with high winds or when the dreaded white van mans flies past at 80mph with the sideways drag........
I use a Witter detachable swan neck tow ball which is also compatible with the ALKO stabiliser.
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