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Car Forum / BMW Cars / July 20043 series towbar
I have a new 320d touring, but sadly I spec'ed it without a towbar. It would have been a £300 option if I had ticked the box, but now my local BMW dealer wants £1500 as an aftermarket fitting. Clearly there are other non-BMW towbars out there. Does anyone have any specific recommendations, preferably that don't involve butchering the rear bumper, and does anyone know if fitting a non-BMW towbar will invalidate my BMW warantee (i'm assuming that fitting the towbar involves fiddling with the electrics) many thanks, stephen > I have a new 320d touring, but sadly I spec'ed it without a towbar. It > would have been a ?300 option if I had ticked the box, but now my [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > stephen ----------------------------------- My towbar took 30 minutes to instal. No butchering of bumper. See: http://www.hitch-web.com/vyr.asp?OID=8 > ----------------------------------- > My towbar took 30 minutes to instal. No butchering of bumper. > See: http://www.hitch-web.com/vyr.asp?OID=8 Looking at the reciever hitch diagram... does it mount to the floor AND the bumper? This would seem to me to create trememdous force on the floor when a small impact is supposed to be absorbed by the bumper shocks. -Russ. > > ----------------------------------- > > My towbar took 30 minutes to instal. No butchering of bumper. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > -Russ. BTW I was looking at the E30 unit and the thread isn't about that, so feel free to ignore me if you like. :-) -Russ. > > ----------------------------------- > > My towbar took 30 minutes to instal. No butchering of bumper. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > -Russ. The Delan E30 hitch mounts to the trunk floor and the rear panel, behind the bumper shocks. Moot point for the original poster, who doesn't have bumper shocks. Brett Anderson KMS www.bmw-stuff.com > > My towbar took 30 minutes to instal. No butchering of bumper. > > See: http://www.hitch-web.com/vyr.asp?OID=8 ---------------------------------------- > Looking at the reciever hitch diagram... does it mount to the floor AND the > bumper? This would seem to me to create trememdous force on the floor when > a small impact is supposed to be absorbed by the bumper shocks. > > -Russ. ---------------------------------------- It does not. Just the floor underneath the spare tire. Get underneath your car...there really is not much "bumper" there. Most all of what you see from the exterior is just plastic cover. This is a receiver hitch. When the "hitch" itself is out of the receiver, the receiver is WAY down and forward of any rear collision area. Matt. How about a wreckers? Buy a used one and install it yourself. Brett Anderson KMS > I have a new 320d touring, but sadly I spec'ed it without a towbar. It > would have been a ?300 option if I had ticked the box, but now my [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > stephen |
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