Question re this type of towing...

[georgeyboy12345]

GetCarter said:

Sigmamark7 said:

You don’t. My A frame has a jockey wheel on it, so if you need to reverse for anything more than a few metres, the only way is to unhitch the car and drive it backwards. If you are on your own, this would be problematic, but in many years of towing a car behind the motorhome, I have never needed to reverse anywhere, so I’m either lucky, or it isn’t as much of a problem as you think it is.

You do realise that the photo above was on a single track road? Are you seriously suggesting that every time he had to reverse he'd have to get out and unhitch his car and reverse both vehicles?

So someone who actually owns a motorhome has replied to your thread and answered your question very helpfully, but now you are choosing to argue with or otherwise not believe the person who has answered your question. Hmm, ok.

[GetCarter]

georgeyboy12345 said:

GetCarter said:

Sigmamark7 said:

You don’t. My A frame has a jockey wheel on it, so if you need to reverse for anything more than a few metres, the only way is to unhitch the car and drive it backwards. If you are on your own, this would be problematic, but in many years of towing a car behind the motorhome, I have never needed to reverse anywhere, so I’m either lucky, or it isn’t as much of a problem as you think it is.

You do realise that the photo above was on a single track road? Are you seriously suggesting that every time he had to reverse he'd have to get out and unhitch his car and reverse both vehicles?

So someone who actually owns a motorhome has replied to your thread and answered your question very helpfully, but now you are choosing to argue with or otherwise not believe the person who has answered your question. Hmm, ok.

My point is, someone who actually owns a motorhome with a car on tow has replied to my thread and said that to reverse any distance, he'd have to unhitch his car and reverse both vehicles.

Living on a 30+ mile long single track road (as I do), this is astonishing to me. Can you imagine what the postie, delivery drivers, ambulances, articulated lorry drivers, trades - all of which use this road regularly would think if they knew this person couldn't reverse his vehicle?

It's mind boggling. If people can't reverse their vehicle on single track roads, they shouldn't be driving on single track roads!

[Matt_E_Mulsion]

I think that the two biggest issues with reversing a car on an A frame behind a motorhome are: firstly that you most likely can't even see it in the mirrors from the drivers seat, secondly with the steering unlocked on a castor tow - the car will only ever follow you properly going forwards. As soon as you try to reverse due to the castor angle of the front wheels on the car, the wheels will immediately try to turn to full lock either left or right - the path of least resistance. They are designed to self centre and follow in forward motion only.

[andy43]

I’ve asked - the only way to go backwards any distance at all is by detaching the ‘trailer’ and having two drivers present.
Possible theory of someone sitting in the ‘trailer’ and doing some steering but it’s never been tried.
Does sound a bit daft, but the tow car is the American way of bringing local transport with you when you’re travelling by motorhome… presumably because they can’t use bicycles…

[POIDH]

GetCarter said:

My point is, someone who actually owns a motorhome with a car on tow has replied to my thread and said that to reverse any distance, he'd have to unhitch his car and reverse both vehicles.

Living on a 30+ mile long single track road (as I do), this is astonishing to me. Can you imagine what the postie, delivery drivers, ambulances, articulated lorry drivers, trades - all of which use this road regularly would think if they knew this person couldn't reverse his vehicle?

It's mind boggling. If people can't reverse their vehicle on single track roads, they shouldn't be driving on single track roads!

This I completely agree with.

The logging trucks, postie, delivery vans etc that folk refer to are all used to reversing and good at knowing where the good passing places are.
To head onto a road with a vehicle which cannot reverse is both deeply inconsiderate and arguably unsafe.

I too have often wondered about the motorhomes with cars behind and reversing before. Now I know.

[Russ T Bolt]

andy43 said:

I’ve asked - the only way to go backwards any distance at all is by detaching the ‘trailer’ and having two drivers present.
Possible theory of someone sitting in the ‘trailer’ and doing some steering but it’s never been tried.
Does sound a bit daft, but the tow car is the American way of bringing local transport with you when you’re travelling by motorhome… presumably because they can’t use bicycles…

I carry a motorbike in the back of mine for transport (and a mountain bike).

No interest in towing something, but if I did it would be on a trailer.

To answer an earlier point about seeing the car in the mirrors, most motorhomes have reversing/rearview cameras.

[Happy Jim]

I have a Fiat 500 that I tow behind my Moho, same/similar setup with steering unlocked & brakes activated when Moho brakes are on (Vac pump to feed the servo plus an electric actuator to push the pedal). Caster angles stop you reversing in these setups, just doesn’t work. I live in the arse end of Devon and have about 3 miles of very single track road to go down before I get to civilisation (white lines!), the only solution is to get my wife to drive the Fiat until it’s sensible to hitch it up.

Just the way it is!

Jim