Hi folks - especially anyone who has fitted a Panda towbar.
Those who've been here a while will have seen me comment that I will (one day!) add a towbar to my 4x4 Panda. But, looking back to a post by @SaltyBill from back in April has prompted me to ask this question...
In the photo in Salty's post, here https://www.fiatforum.com/threads/wesfalia-tow-bar-hook-installed-help-with-bypass-bosch-pdc.493554/ (from which a small part repeated below) you can see a short section of tube that's welded to the right hand towbar support bracket. Clearly, that is a threaded tube which the emergency towing eye screws into (nice touch).
You could say 'you don't need the emergency towing eye if you have a towbar fitted'...
True, except if you don't have the detachable towball with you and need pulling out from somewhere (or need to pull someone else out from somewhere), you will need to use the screw-in eye. Cut to the chase: do other makes of towbar also include this threaded tube that Westfalia clearly do?
[Side note: My Mac or Facebook seems to always correct 'towbar' to 'tower! - nearly posted
Those who've been here a while will have seen me comment that I will (one day!) add a towbar to my 4x4 Panda. But, looking back to a post by @SaltyBill from back in April has prompted me to ask this question...
In the photo in Salty's post, here https://www.fiatforum.com/threads/wesfalia-tow-bar-hook-installed-help-with-bypass-bosch-pdc.493554/ (from which a small part repeated below) you can see a short section of tube that's welded to the right hand towbar support bracket. Clearly, that is a threaded tube which the emergency towing eye screws into (nice touch).
You could say 'you don't need the emergency towing eye if you have a towbar fitted'...
True, except if you don't have the detachable towball with you and need pulling out from somewhere (or need to pull someone else out from somewhere), you will need to use the screw-in eye. Cut to the chase: do other makes of towbar also include this threaded tube that Westfalia clearly do?
[Side note: My Mac or Facebook seems to always correct 'towbar' to 'tower! - nearly posted