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| posted on January 26th, 2015 at 02:05 PM |
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Tying a car down on car trailer, what load rating on straps???
Looking at hiring a car trailer to pick up a old Golf, hire trailers don't come with tie-downs or chains (due to insurance reasons I think), so what
load rating to I need for the tie downs that I'll be using? Are there any regulations or formulas? Had a look on the NSW RMS website & couldn't
find anything on securing loads (thought there would be heaps).
for the point of the exercise lets say the Golf is around 1500kg.
Hopefully one of the more knowledgeable members can help me out here.
Thanks in advance as they say.
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| posted on January 26th, 2015 at 03:20 PM |
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No matter how many you use make sure its rated higher than the weight of the car, in other words if all the other tie downs fail and you only have one
left holding the car you want it to be 1500kg or higher, I use 2x2000kg on my car
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| posted on January 26th, 2015 at 04:44 PM |
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posted by 1303Steve
No matter how many you use make sure its rated higher than the weight of the car, in other words if all the other tie downs fail and you only have one
left holding the car you want it to be 1500kg or higher, I use 2x2000kg on my car
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I use 1x 2000kg tie down for the front of the Beetle and 2x 1500kg tie downs for the rear.
You have to be ready for some idiot to jump out in front of you and expect you to be able to stop on a dime. Make sure you buy load rated and tagged
ratchet straps. Good advise from Steve too.
Cheers Col
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| posted on January 26th, 2015 at 05:29 PM |
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buy a set of 4 from
Autobahn, super cheap or Bunning's they are cheap as.
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| posted on January 26th, 2015 at 05:57 PM |
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I actually tie down each wheel to the trailer with 1,500kg straps and never had any trouble.
Yogie
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| posted on January 26th, 2015 at 07:45 PM |
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thanks men, I might buy a set of 2000kg straps & that should have me covered for any future jobs as well...
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| posted on January 27th, 2015 at 03:22 PM |
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tie down on each wheel, engine / weight over the front of trailer, car in gear, handbrake on. on the winch still and check it often :-)
drive carefully
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