Out of interest how heavy a caravan can you tow with an auto FL2 using the LR detachable tow bar? How much is the LR tow bar?

Local company rents new ones out at quite a reasonable rate, used to caravan with my parents as a kid and enjoyed it. Time to persuade my wife, there is a lot more to holidays than the hotel pool!!! 2010MY Freelander 2 HSE Auto
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towbars are rated to 2000kg max limit of the FL2, normally a caravan weight is 1300kg to 1900kg

some of the hire caravan are basic models, but basic spec can still have what you need to get by

obviously there is the holidaycottage.com websites as our friendly chicken farmer keeps going on about, but these weigh too much for the FL2 to tow  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

ah yes they joys of the open road, unhindered coasting toward a lovely holiday cottage, I drove along the A1 and M1 the other day plenty of caravans about, you dont half travel slowly, it would drive me mad, ah sey drive me mad At work
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Got stuck behind 3 Vanners earlier, managed to overtake all of them only to find two were being towed by freelander 2! Bloody idiots! 40mph in a national, there is no need! Could of done with an rpg to destroy all of them! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr I hate them more than traffic wardens!

two vans behind one freelander  At work
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3xvans 2x freelancers 1xcrv

Mav71 wrote:

npinks wrote:

Buy the car you want not what the next owner wants

Good point!

But there are worst cases, byt Rimini red and you'll lose ven more money!

WRONG! my old Rimini Red went up for sale at a garage up North, 08 HSE with bodykit and Privacy glass £24K and sold it within a week!  Now - 2017 BMW X3 M Sport Carbon Black
Gone - 2014 BMW X3 M Sport Space Grey, faultless!
Gone - 2011 Freelander 2 SD4 HSE Bali Blue with xenons
Gone - 2008 Freelander 2 TD4 HSE Rimini Red with bodykit

Totally agree! I was looking for a Rimini Red and the rip-off-merchant told me not many people order Red. His explanation was that the brouchure colour doesn't look anything like the real colour, but when they come in on part x they are gone next day! Shame they have dropped it cos the new red is cra but without wishing to start the usual arguements so are White, Black, Manuals and Caravans

i work in the motor trade we supply greater manchester police with parts a few years ago the police up here started to buy a lot of silver,red,blue,vehicles for front line use, when the question was asked why dont you buy a lot of white cars the answer came back the when the vehicle comes to the end of its working life with the police and was sold at auction none white vehicles fetch a better re-sale value  rainy-city
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bigalf1961 wrote:

i work in the motor trade we supply greater manchester police with parts a few years ago the police up here started to buy a lot of silver,red,blue,vehicles for front line use, when the question was asked why dont you buy a lot of white cars the answer came back the when the vehicle comes to the end of its working life with the police and was sold at auction none white vehicles fetch a better re-sale value

I assume you meant that non white vehicles fetch a better resale value?

conversely, I would imagine that when it becomes known that used white cars aren't immediately thought of as worn out ex-police hacks, with ruined interiors and butchered wiring looms, then it can only help the reputation and value of used white cars!

The reason (Ex-cop) white cars had a low second hand resale value was because everyone knew they were ex police and the market was flooded with them. Same with Vans, coloured ones are worth a few hundred quid than white ones and RED ones that are clearly ex royal mail have a lower value still, BT stopped painting their vans Yellow and then Grey, and they are worth more now they are white.

White cars are not a fad and in warmer countries like Norway very usefull to have in the burning sun as they dont get as hot as dark colours

With global warming everybody will want a white car in the future, so if you buy now and sell in 3-4 years time there when temperaturs are higher than now, you will get a higher price and when nobody will want black cars except for frying their eggs on the bonnet
However if white is too bright, silver or light grey will be the second and third most sort after colours  2007 Freelander 2 HSE TD4 Manual with Premium Pack & Moonroof.
Stornoway Grey with Ebony Black Pleather, Clear Indicators, Body Side Mouldings etc.

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AndyC wrote:

nobody will want black cars except for baking scones on the bonnet

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Looks like CG has flat lined.

Oh well...!

Most of you would appreciate white cars in Oz due to the excessive heat.
Every other, other, other, other, other car has a "colour"

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