Tow Bar Suitable For Parking Sensors

[ARSENAL79PLACE]

Folks,

 

I have a question for all you fellow Galaxy owners. So i need a towbar for the bus but the Mrs can't reverse without the parking sensors!! So i need to keep it working. I contacted two fitters who said that they would fit a fixed towbar and all i need to do is to remove the bolts from the fixed towbar everytime i don't need it. This seems a bit crazy to me to have a fixed towbar only to unbolt it everytime its not being used. Any thoughts??

 

Anyhow the third towbar company said no way should you unbolt the fixed towbar constantly. I took the bus to see him. We checked whether the fixed swan neck or flange ball towbar was picked up by the sensors and yes it was. Bummer. So he has suggested a removable towbar fitted with twin electrics for £325. What do you reckon?

 

The fixed towbar at the other places were around £240.

 

All advice appreciated.

Edited July 16, 2012 by ARSENAL79PLACE

[gregers]

ive got a fixed 1 in my garage if you want to make me an offer and arrange your own courier.

 

i ended up having a detatchable towbar fitted to mine and that cost me £350 cash,ive also had 1 fitted to the wifes smax and that 1 STUNG ME FOR £450 this 1 will be removed and fitted on mine when the time comes.

i do beleive the brain learns when the towball is fitted?

im sure this info is on here somewhere?

[SilverBeast]

I have a fixed BRIN K (think it's by Thule) with a swan neck. It has the 13 pin electrics connector which obviously takes up less space than twin electrics. It is set quite far towards the bumper and doesn't affect the Parking Sensors. It was on the car when I got it. If you need twin electrics then there are plenty of adapters on ebay.

[traff]

hi there ..i have a tow bar fitted to mine...fitted it myself....just cover the inner sensors wiith several layers of insulation tape.....it really works......the outer sensors still give plenty of coverage......so sucessfull was this fix ....i also did my mates car.......it really works regards traff

[daddyfixit]

i am putting a fixed bar on mine this week (still awaiting delivery) if the mrs gets it wrong she will cave in the garage door as she reverses, or worse still drag a car out of a parking bay as she does a point turn in her works carpark !!!

[SilverBeast]

i am putting a fixed bar on mine this week (still awaiting delivery) if the mrs gets it wrong she will cave in the garage door as she reverses, or worse still drag a car out of a parking bay as she does a point turn in her works carpark !!!

 

For your sake, I hope she doesn't read the Forum :)

[ARSENAL79PLACE]

Folks,

 

I have ended up going for a twin electrics with a removable Witter towbar fitted for £350. Very happy man. I have just dropped it off for fitting so should be ready early afternoon ish.

 

I will report back once its done and hopefully all will go well.

[dbc]

Jeez, that's steep!

 

I got mine off ebay for 90 quid new.

Single electrics with fixed ball.

I had to angle the electric socket braket back a little bit so it didn't affect parking and took half a day to fit by myself

[ARSENAL79PLACE]

Mybe its a bit steep, but they have done a fab job. Both electric sockets fold underneath the car and nothing can be seen. I could only source the parts for £260 myself. So £90 for fiting all the twin electrics and towbar aint bad IMO. Plus there aint much room around the spare wheel.

[daddyfixit]

i fitted mine in work today, then came home to do the wiring;

a fixed ball type off ebay , from a place called p.f jones in manchester £86.70 delivered---bar,ball single electrics kit and warning bleeper !!

 

and as expected, i whacked my shins on it after parking the car up the drive for the night !!!

 

we are going to try camping so i opted for easiest/cheapest in case my kids hate it !!-------roll on thomas cook airlines next summer !!!

[gregers]

iirc i paid £350 for my witter detachable on my gal,that was a bout a year ago now.

[Lloyd Evans]

I know this is an old topic but I have "upgraded" the sharan to a galaxy!!!

 

I have retained to tow bar from the sharan (along with all the bits to fit it) however the tow bar and twin electric where an option when the car was new, needless to say I could not remove the electrics to retain for this car

 

So the question is what is the most economical way of fitting single electrics (7 pin plug) to a mk2 galaxy?

 

I have looked at the pct option and it looks ok any other advice would be great

 

Cheers

 

Lloyd