Hi , anyone on Brisbane northside have a car trailer I can beg borrow or steal for a price to pickup my bug body on the weekend

Matilda garage at strathpine. Good rates & plenty of them. Cheers

try coates hire we hires one last weekend all weekend picked up fri arvo and dropped off mon morning for $150

http://www.coateshire.com.au/branch-finder 

yes prolly best to hire such a thing
from my experience with my tandem basically lending out is a no no
they usually come back bent n damaged as ppl don't realise how big a car trailer is
then you are left to fix their fook up
I don't lend out my trailers usually unless I know the mate well and know they can drive with a trailer
harsh you may say but when these thing can cost over 4k lending out to a stranger basically not going to happen
$150 is cheap or do a deal with a towie driver.. cash is king

Hey Rose, did the Coates hire trailer come with tie-down straps etc? the hire place at taree (not coates) only hire the bare trailer?

A friend of mine borrowed my tandem trailer, and blew all the lights....his truck was 24v. He made good the damage, though.

Now all the lights are LEDs, and cope with any voltage.

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Originally posted by h yes prolly best to hire such a thing from my experience with my tandem basically lending out is a no no they usually come back bent n damaged as ppl don't realise how big a car trailer is then you are left to fix their fook up I don't lend out my trailers usually unless I know the mate well and know they can drive with a trailer harsh you may say but when these thing can cost over 4k lending out to a stranger basically not going to happen $150 is cheap or do a deal with a towie driver.. cash is king

uhaul is $125 for 24hrs. did this recently to pick up a car in stanthorpe.

I'm looking forward to building my own VW specific tralier. Car trailers are so oversized for a beetle its not funny.

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Quote: Hope you're not being ( )coarse again, Gary.

Yeah, the hire trailers are bloody big and heavy because of all the reasons h said. I did a short stint at a hire place... their trailer weighed just under 1 tonne! Most people who hired it would have towed illegally overweight when they put a car on.

If it is just a body you could be better getting a removalist truck on hourly hire. $35hr from europcar. You could even put it on the back of a flat tray ute with some overhang. If you're adventurous you could do what I did with a floorpan. Buy a couple of lengths of solid timber. Tie them or u bolt them across a box trailer, then tie the body down to the timber. If you can do it in under 2 hours bunnings will even give you the trailer for nothing to get your timber home

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Originally posted by amazeer If you can do it in under 2 hours bunnings will even give you the trailer for nothing to get your timber home

Hey , thanks everyone for the replys , got a small truck and it slid straight in the back easy as , no probs

I thought about buying a car trailer but want less weight. As long as its wide enough and long enough to carry a kombi thats all I'd want. It can overhang at the back and front a little (I'd do one with no high lips front and rear so it would sit further forward).

The regular towing guy I use charges $60 for a local tow, about $90+ from the other side of town, he just has a trailer behind a falcon.

Not sure how exxy it would be to have one built, probably more than a ready made one. I don't have the welding ability to make one. Would love a dolly type that just supports the front wheels and the back rolls but apparently only registered cars can be towed on a dolly trailer.