My New Trailer Project
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, Mar 25 2010 03:48 PM
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Posted 27 April 2010 - 01:40 PM
Cool project! I need to do the towing add-on to my licence so I have an excuse to make one of these
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Posted 27 April 2010 - 03:27 PM
Cool project! I need to do the towing add-on to my licence so I have an excuse to make one of these
You can tow up to 750kg on a new style lisence, with a maximum laiden weight of 3500 kg.
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Posted 02 May 2010 - 09:05 AM
careful minimad69.
The maximum train weight is 3500kg I think, which is the car and trailer, and people and luggage.
Anyway, I got more done yesterday, finished welding the deck on, and shaped it, also filled so I can rub down today and prime that bit.
The front I put in place, and tacked on, then am slowly seam welding, done the top edge, but both sides need doing, then I need to form the bottom edges.
Then it's the front top edge, which is going to be the hard bit to get the right shape, but I'm feeling brave, so should be alright!
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The maximum train weight is 3500kg I think, which is the car and trailer, and people and luggage.
Anyway, I got more done yesterday, finished welding the deck on, and shaped it, also filled so I can rub down today and prime that bit.
The front I put in place, and tacked on, then am slowly seam welding, done the top edge, but both sides need doing, then I need to form the bottom edges.
Then it's the front top edge, which is going to be the hard bit to get the right shape, but I'm feeling brave, so should be alright!
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Posted 02 May 2010 - 09:54 AM
Wow thanks, I didn't know I had any towing entitlement. Ill have to check with my insurance company to see if there is any restriction there. I'd love a little trailer, it might happen now Between a mini and a small trailer, I should imagine one would fall well clear of the weight limits.
Between a mini and a small trailer, I should imagine one would fall well clear of the weight limits.
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Posted 02 May 2010 - 12:14 PM
You will have to, as depending on the age of your mini you are limited to around, or just under 400kg for the laden trailer weight.
(Hence my work to remove as much unnecessary weight as possible from the trailer).
Dave
(Hence my work to remove as much unnecessary weight as possible from the trailer).
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Posted 02 May 2010 - 02:35 PM
What do you estimate the weight to be?
I was planning on keeping the suspension + subframe for mine but remove brakes.
Roof for the lid, steel front, steel boot, alloy wheels, gas lifters. Will I struggle with the 400kg limit, bearing in mind the whole point of this is to carry camping gear around?
I was planning on keeping the suspension + subframe for mine but remove brakes.
Roof for the lid, steel front, steel boot, alloy wheels, gas lifters. Will I struggle with the 400kg limit, bearing in mind the whole point of this is to carry camping gear around?
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Posted 02 May 2010 - 05:48 PM
Category B (test passed after 1st Jan 1997)
Motor vehicles with a MAM of up to 3,500 kg, no more than eight passenger seats, with or without a trailer - weighing no more than 750 kg.
So you can tow a 750kg trailer on a standard license.
Be aware thought that you need to observe the vehicles maximum towing weight and unladen weight also.
Motor vehicles with a MAM of up to 3,500 kg, no more than eight passenger seats, with or without a trailer - weighing no more than 750 kg.
So you can tow a 750kg trailer on a standard license.
Be aware thought that you need to observe the vehicles maximum towing weight and unladen weight also.
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Posted 02 May 2010 - 10:10 PM
@Simon
How on earth is it a waste? Its not like its just getting scrapped?! Plus, we're not exactly running out of Minis are we...
How on earth is it a waste? Its not like its just getting scrapped?! Plus, we're not exactly running out of Minis are we...
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Posted 02 May 2010 - 10:20 PM
It isn't a waste!
If someone had just scrapped it then yeah fair enough, that's a waste. But atleast someone is keeping half a Mini on the road and getting some use out of it
Keep up the good work!!!
If someone had just scrapped it then yeah fair enough, that's a waste. But atleast someone is keeping half a Mini on the road and getting some use out of it
Keep up the good work!!!
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Posted 02 May 2010 - 10:23 PM
also it was aparently rolled so probs wasnt that straight anyway
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Posted 02 May 2010 - 10:26 PM
also it was aparently rolled so probs wasnt that straight anyway
Yeah, so it would be weak! No good, better that someone gets some use of whats left of it. Better than the Mini sitting at the scrap yard
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Posted 03 May 2010 - 09:03 AM
We all know you can't save them all, even if we dont like to admit it 
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Posted 03 May 2010 - 06:25 PM
+1 there no such thing as it far to goneye we are runing out of minis cause more and more people like you are wasteing them. and there no such thing as a mini to far gone or to rotten@Simon
How on earth is it a waste? Its not like its just getting scrapped?! Plus, we're not exactly running out of Minis are we...
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Posted 03 May 2010 - 06:30 PM
ye we are runing out of minis cause more and more people like you are wasteing them. and there no such thing as a mini to far gone or to rotten@Simon
How on earth is it a waste? Its not like its just getting scrapped?! Plus, we're not exactly running out of Minis are we...
Umm can i just add my tupance please.
Would just like to say that at present, yeah they may cost a far bit, but you can get a heritage shell and so we wont run out of minis untill they stop trading. So your "ye we are runing out of minis" is false.
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Posted 03 May 2010 - 06:45 PM
ye we are runing out of minis cause more and more people like you are wasteing them. and there no such thing as a mini to far gone or to rotten@Simon
How on earth is it a waste? Its not like its just getting scrapped?! Plus, we're not exactly running out of Minis are we...
For starters, people like me? How to you get to that one then...?
OK then, you spend in excess of 1K on pannels and welding to save a shell when you can buy a soild shell for that anyway! Or, leave it to this guy whos making something different, very good, practical and generally better than pulling up in a bog standad car.
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