Another failure - tow bar this time

[Ranger 6]

How can a tow bar fail I hear you ask?? When it's an electric folding tow bar.....

Mine is now sticking out at a strange angle and will neither fold back, nor extend fully. Booked in once again to my local dealer.

[C0ffin D0dger]

Obviously this doesn't help your issue but I've never really got the point of electric folding tow bars other than just adding more stuff to go wrong.

I've got detachable on my 5 series and think it's a really neat solution. Remove flap in bumper, fold down electric socket, take out bung, shove the tow ball in and take out the key. Takes all of about a minute to do it.

I do stand on it though and bounce up and down a bit to make sure it really is engaged

[Ranger 6]

It was one of those things that had been ordered on the car when new. I wanted one anyway so that was the stars aligning when I bought it.

If it's not going to be fixed under warranty I'm going to ask them to leave the electrics and I'll fit one like yours - ultimately, I agree with you, I'm of the opinion that something hanging around in the crap collected under the back bumper, it's just waiting for it to go wrong.