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Car Question
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This may be a stupid question, but is a car that's been used for towing more likely to be knackered? It's just that I've only just noticed that a car I was looking at has a tow-bar on it, and it occured to me that if it's been used for towing a caravan a lot or something, the engine might have been put under more strain than normal. Or am I talking bollocks?
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It's not bollocks.
And the fact it may have been owned by older people doen't always mean it's in better shape. Young people tend to look after there cars more and run them more often, where as old people often ride the clutch and leave the car idle for days.
You never know. It might be a 1300cc car that's been used to tow a gargantuan caravan, or a 3000cc monster that's been ferrying around a couple of bikes in a trailer.
Can't say it would mean much by itself.
Exactly. And a towbar's handy anyway.
Our 1.2 Clio has a tow bar, is really well looked after and tows sailing dinghies that weigh in at about 100 kg so really have no impact on the car at all, other than meaning that when we tow we drive really carefully because it's such a light trailer.
Another mates is shagged because theirs tows gennys and stuff.
Towing a small trailer twice a year to the tip is nothing to worry about.
Sorry if it's too late to be of any use.