Technical Towing a Fiat Pop

[IggyAZ]

I'm going to tow my 2012 Fiat Pop behind my motorhome here in the USA.

I'm looking for any information about the wiring harness or identifing the stop lights and turn signals wiring under the dash.
Any help or pictures would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

 

[RobinPJ]

This is how you're meant to do it (well, outside of the USA anyway)...

 

[loveshandbags]

I'm going to tow my 2012 Fiat Pop behind my motorhome here in the USA.

I'm looking for any information about the wiring harness or identifing the stop lights and turn signals wiring under the dash.
Any help or pictures would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Welcome to the Forum IggyAZ.:wave:

Wiring on the North American 500 maybe different to the European model but here is a recent thread (Click here).

On the European model it would appear that a 'wire' had to be run from the back of the car up to the fuse board and it is not as bad to do as one would think.

 

[alexGS]

Wiring on the North American 500 maybe different to the European model but here is a recent thread (Click here).

On the European model it would appear that a 'wire' had to be run from the back of the car up to the fuse board and it is not as bad to do as one would think.

I think the OP () has the opposite problem - the 500 will be the trailer - so it is necessary to wire the 500's rear lights to the tow vehicle electrics.

This seems a bad idea to me (attach a lightboard instead?) but if I did it, I would use diodes (1N4007, etc) to feed current into the rear light clusters without back-feeding the 500's bulb-check/other computer-circuits.

-Alex

 

[loveshandbags]

I think the OP () has the opposite problem - the 500 will be the trailer - so it is necessary to wire the 500's rear lights to the tow vehicle electrics.

This seems a bad idea to me (attach a lightboard instead?) but if I did it, I would use diodes (1N4007, etc) to feed current into the rear light clusters without back-feeding the 500's bulb-check/other computer-circuits.

-Alex

You are right alexGS. I didn't have the heart to ask the OP to clarify if it was the other way round and on re-reading his post saw motorhome which I would normally refer to as a CamperVan.:doh:

I've never seen anyone tow a car behind a Motorhome but checking the weight of the North American Fiat 500 it exceeds a ton. It would appear from this post (Click here) that it could be more trouble than it's worth. I wonder if the US regulations are more lax ?

 

[jrkitching]

I've never seen anyone tow a car behind a Motorhome

It's not a common practice but over the years I've seen a few in the Scottish highlands with a sei or smart on the back. You can buy custom-made trailers & towing frames all over the internet; here for example. Note well the comment about the possible need to maintain power braking ability on the car being towed.

Or if you want something grander, how about this.

Don't think I'd have any hope of getting 60mpg with one, though . If the fuel bills get too much, there's this ecoCamper.

 

[ben]

I'm in Oklahoma staying with a friend who's dad has a campervan which tows a twin cab chevy truck!

Bear in mind, the motorhome is bigger than a london double decker!!!

 

[loveshandbags]

It's not a common practice but over the years I've seen a few in the Scottish highlands with a sei or smart on the back. You can buy custom-made trailers & towing frames all over the internet; here for example. Note well the comment about the possible need to maintain power braking ability on the car being towed.

Or if you want something grander, how about this.

Don't think I'd have any hope of getting 60mpg with one, though . If the fuel bills get too much, there's this ecoCamper.

Some very good links on that post JR. With an 'A frame' (another term !) falling into the same trailer regulation category, a car weighing under 750kgs does not need to have independent braking like the one provided like the smartbox duo.

Didn't quite understand the 'important bit' in the FAQ
http://www.smart-tow.com/legal.htm
'This will be very difficult to achieve on an "A" frame using an inertia (overrun) device' but I've assumed that the smartbox duo meets the regs.

That smartbox duo might have been useful on some cars that I sat in whilst being towed before cars had power steering.