[icemark]

Anyone know anything about towing cars? What is needed? I am picking up a parts car in San Diego and I need to get it back to the bay area (500 miles).

My truck is set up with a hitch and all, but I am wondering about a tow bar or what. If you use a tow bar, what is involved hooking it up.

I don't have a trailer, so I am hoping that there is someway to do it.

Links?

[Biomanjcs72]

IF you don't have a tow bar you can rent a car dolly from u-haul or somewhere like that. I've used one a fes times. You just roll the car up onto the dolly and strap the wheels down, then chain through the tow hook eyelets. and you're your way. Good luck.

If none of the above is a option, a chain will work as long as the brakes work on the parts car, if they don't, well don't even try it

Tow bars go from (I think) you're trailer hitch to the hook eyelets on the other car, all four wheels of the tow car stay onthe ground. with the tow dolly's mentioned above, the front two wheels are on the dolly, the rear two are on the ground.

HTH, have fun, dont it many times myself

JCS


hope some of the above helped.

[Bamm Bamm]

you can't tow it all the way up here with a chain that illegal..it's illegal to tow with a chain at any time from what I've been told. A car dolly is cool a double axel trailor would be 100x better if maybe a U-Haul rents one and you culd bring it somewhere else..i dunno never seen one that rents them..

[drlowz]

Get AAA gold, and tell them your car broke down and you need it towed home. Ibelieve with the gold they have to tow it all the way..



Well I just got done reading AAA site and with the plus they will only tow it for 100 miles.

[Biomanjcs72]

Of course it's illegal to tow a car with a chain, but that doesn't mean you can't do it./

[icemark]

Nah, I don't have anyone to sit in the car, so towing with a chain is out of the question. And I could just imagine driving down the grapevine with a tow chained car.... Nothing like 100ft to 5000 ft to 0 ft in 25 miles

It looks like the tow bar might be a good bet...

Renting a trailer turned out to be as much as renting a whole truck that I could just drive it into.

If I was more sure about the mechanical condition of the car, the cheapest bet is just to fly down to San Diego and drive it back up to the bay area, But since I have to go down there next weekend anyway, I thought I would kill two birds with one trip.

[Bamm Bamm]

Mark where you going to in the Bay Area? I live up in the bay.. theres lots of LFS.. hardly go to them anymore but theres alot of them..I have I think 5or 6 within a 5 mile radius at most of my work right now..Kinda cool when i need stuff

[icemark]

Bamm Bamm,

Actually I am in Cotati, which is just 5 minutes south of Santa Rosa. So I am very North Bay.

The only decent LFS in my area is North Bay Aquatics, but they tend to be very expensive on everything (except for salt), But their stock is very good... so its one of those you pay a little more, but you get better animals.

I usually go down to San Diego 3 or 4 times a year (I used to live there about 4 years ago, and my parents/ sister are still there). So when I know I am going down, I often check to see who has something that I need that I can bring back.

In this case it is a early 90's RX 7 that I have been wanting as a project/3rd car (they cost twice as much, for that same model up here in the bay area), Although I was planning on hitting up Aquatic Warehouse in Kearny Mesa area of San Diego - Wholesale prices in comparision to anything in the Bay area, before I head back up as well.