C3 as a tow car??

C3 as a tow car??

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SeeFive

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8,280 posts

232 months

Sunday 9th August 2015
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What a sight!

Not one, but TWO C3s towing moderate sized trailers on the M3 southbound, Winchester this evening. I have seen pictures of vettes towing, but never in the flesh.

It was quite good approaching them, seeing the trailers, and then seeing something low and chunky ahead of each one. Nice one lads!

Chevykevv

1,447 posts

206 months

Monday 10th August 2015
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Some one turned up at the Nationals in June towing a caravan with a C1!!

chuntington101

5,733 posts

235 months

Tuesday 11th August 2015
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Look at drag week in the US. Lots of VERY fast cars towing stuff. smile

Gixer

4,463 posts

247 months

Monday 17th August 2015
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Seen loads on various forums over the years. There was a photo of a black C6 Z06 towing a large speed boat doing the rounds on Facebook last week. When we were at Reno Air Races a couple of years ago, they used a C6 as the tow car for a jet car but this here must win it -


stevieturbo

17,229 posts

246 months

Tuesday 18th August 2015
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Are they legally approved for towing in the UK ?

Chevykevv

1,447 posts

206 months

Monday 24th August 2015
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My C5 had a tow are when I bought it.

Soop Dogg

411 posts

234 months

Wednesday 26th August 2015
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Not really 'towing' I suppose, but I've used my C6 for carrying my bikes for a few years now.


c6pete

90 posts

176 months

Thursday 27th August 2015
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Do you have a detachable tow bar for your C6, or is it permanently on? Interested to see how that works with the exhaust unit...

Soop Dogg

411 posts

234 months

Thursday 27th August 2015
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It normally stays on the car but it was custom made and is a modular design with just one bolt to remove the tow bar itself.

There's a cross member permanently attached to the subframe. in the middle of this cross-member is welded a piece of box-section steel about 6 inches long that goes towards the rear of the vehicle.

The car is a UK car so it has a towing eye in the middle of the rear impact bar behind the bottom of the rear bumper.

The tow bar (with the tow ball attached) is also box-section steel, but of a size that slides into the aforementioned box-section piece, welded to the cross-member.

I just take the tow-bar (which is just over a couple of feet long) and slide it into the box-section on the cross member under the car. On the top of the tow-bar is a steel 'toungue' with a hole in it and a captive nut welded to it. This lines up with the towing eye at the back of the car. I line up the towing eye with the whole in teh tongue/captive nut and put a bold into the towing eye from the top side, screwing it through the towing eye and into the captive nut. This secures the towbar to the car.

Electrics-wise, I have wired the normal multi-relay type of unit into the can-bus lights and fed the output to a trailer socket (the normal type of socket with the sprung cap on it) mounted at the rear of the offside rear wheel-well. It's attached to the wheel-arch liner. The tow-bar has it's electrics attached to it, socket pointing rearwards for the lighting board to plug into, and at the fron end, about 3 feet of cable with a normal single electrics trailer plug. This plugs into the socket in the rear offside wheel arch liner. I normally only use a single cable-tie to keep the cable nicely out of the way of anything that might cause it any harm, but after that I'm good to go.

One bolt, one plug and it's on or off.

I have a Magna-flow exhaust that has sufficient room between the two pairs of pipes to accommodate the towbar.