In 1991, I had a trailer hitch installed on my 1981 TD to tow the
rebuilt chassis of my 1957 Land Rover 107" SW from Wellsboro,
Pennsylvania to the Augusta area of Maine, about 550 miles. The
chassis was on its wheels, and I was using a tow bar, so I had no
tongue weight. I started out at a sedate 45 to 50 until I got to the
interstate in NY, where I let it creep up to 55 to 60. I soon
realized that if I didn't pick up the pace, I was going to run out of
daylight, and I had no lights on the Land Rover chassis. (OK, that
was foolish. The height of the LR frame was the same height as the
rear lights on the Peugeot.) Soon I was doing 70 to 75 on the flat
parts of the road. But there are more miles of uphill road through
Southern and East Central NY State, and through western Massachusetts
than I had realized in driving that road with nothing behind. I found
myself in third gear on those long upgrades, with my flashers
blinking invisibly, and the big semis blowing by me. Now that I'm
older and maybe a little wiser, I realize that pulling a four wheel
trailer that weighed somewhere over 2000 pounds, with front wheels
that followed along on curves, with no brakes, was absolute madness.
But I didn't even notice that it was behind me except on the upgrades.
That car was rear ended, and I think the trailer hitch created much
more damage than there might have been without it because the hitch
remained rigid (it goes over the spare), and bent the whole rear end
of the car down. It would've been unrepairable, anyway. The car
didn't survive, but the hitch did, and has been on my '87 sti for
eight years now. I ordered a hardware kit for it from U-Haul, and
their distributor sent a complete hitch. I don't know what they did
with the hitch itself. I towed a 5x8 trailer from St. Louis to Kansas
City and back when my youngest daughter finished school, and she
wanted to store some stuff with her older sister. The trip back with
stuff in the trailer had a fair amount of tongue weight, and took
some weight off the front wheels. That made about 100 miles of the
trip pretty dicey when I caught up with lines of thunder storms
moving East with me. With the heavy rain and the winds and nighttime,
I actually drove slower than anyone who knows me would believe. At
least that trailer had lights.
Steve
In active service:
'87 505 sti v6 - 5 speed - generally healthy
--
Rust in peace:
'86 505 sti - 5 speed - committed suicide
'81 505 tdiesel 5 speed - murdered by a NY State trooper
'80 505 diesel auto - died of a myriad of complications
'79 504 diesel 4 speed - mortally wounded by inattentive driver
At 06:17 PM 7/8/2006, taichung00 wrote:
>TOWING WITH PEUGEOT
>
>To my surprise, my wife has developed a huge crush on those
>streamlined silver bullet camping trailers.
>
>I wonder if anyone has any experience towing with Peugeot?
>
>If not these retro gypsy wagons, then surely car-hauling that latest
>found treasure, a moss-festooned Panhard from the forest, Uncle
>Antoine's's barn fresh Facel Vega, or that 404 Coupe we all thought
>Mike would never part with.
>
>Were any Peugeots sold with a "Towing Package?"
>
>Wouldn't the diesels, especially the turbo diesels, have been good for
>towing?
>
>Would choice of transmission have been a factor?
>
>Would the lower gearing in the differentials of the wagons have been a
>plus?
>
>If any of you have ever had experience... succesful or otherwise...
>using a Peugeot as a towing vehicle, it would be good to compare your
>stories.
>
>And if you ever set up a Peugeot for extensive towing -- whether of
>travel trailer, car hauler or boat -- I'd love to know how you did it
>to prevent unneccesary wear or destruction of your car or wagon???
>
>It would be great to hear thoughts, annecdotes, horror stories and
>success stories... Please post to the list!
>
>Bruce Humphrey
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