Towing a caravan help

[Shawry85]

Hi does anybody on here an the Fabia III kombi that also has a caravan? 

 

Struggling to pick a caravan thats a 4 berth and that the Fabia safely pull 

 

It says upto 1200kg?? 

 

Anyone got a Fabia kombi that tows a caravan??

Edited 13 August, 2019 by Shawry85

[alltorque]

Sounds rather like you are looking at too big a caravan to tow safely with the car, or, too small a car to safely tow the size of caravan you want. 

 

I can think of two alternatives to solve the problem.   You may well get a 4B caravan at just under 1200kg, but then have to take into account all the suff you will carry in the caravan, and the car.  Bare caravan weight is only the beginning.

 

sorry about some rain on the parade.

[gumdrop]

The Fabia is a very light car with a small but powerful engine it is not suitable for towing anything more than a small camping trailer.

https://towcar.info/GB/towing.php

[Ootohere]

@Shawry85

What do you have is it a 110ps manual estate?

[Shawry85]

Hi thanks for responses!! We have the 1.4 Monte Carlo estate manual 

 

Looking at a 4berth caravan under 1000kg ha. I thought that the 1200kg brakes max was too much because the car weights 1100kg max 

 

Would love to get a 4 berth but may have to be a 2/3 and get a big awning ha 

 

Any hints/tips/ advice would be greatly appreciated

 

 

[Ootohere]

@Shawry85

Has your car had the Service Campaign carried out to change the coolant?

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Do you think spring assisters would be a good idea on the rear?

[gumdrop]

1 hour ago, Shawry85 said:

Hi thanks for responses!! We have the 1.4 Monte Carlo estate manual 

 

Looking at a 4berth caravan under 1000kg ha. I thought that the 1200kg brakes max was too much because the car weights 1100kg max 

 

Would love to get a 4 berth but may have to be a 2/3 and get a big awning ha 

 

Any hints/tips/ advice would be greatly appreciated

 

 

The caravan would leave you with no payload i.e no, clothes, chairs, awning, bedding, water carrier, waste carrier almost all the paraphernalia that a caravanner carries.

My Yeti managed an Eriba Troll and a Bailey Orion but they were light caravans. Does anyone actually offer a towbar for a Fabia?.

 

[Ootohere]

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/424007-fabia-estate-mk3-towbar

 

[Eccles]

This does not make sense to me. Trying to tow a largish caravan with a car which has not been designed for such a purpose is just asking for trouble.

[Shawry85]

All services carried out not at Skoda with Thier silly prices for very minimal work carried out. 

 

When the car was bought the plan wasn't to tow a caravan but such is life and things change. The plan isn't to attempt to pull the maximum weight, if you read the first post I was asking for advice and I anybody has a Fabia have they pulled a caravan. 

 

The car is obviously able to tow if you can get a tow bar and there is a weight restriction.

 

If you have no advice just a negative don't waste your time in posting a comment 

 

 

[abaxas]

There used to be, so would assume there still are, small 'micro' caravans that weight 500-700kg. I'm sure they'll be fine.

 

[gumdrop]

The Eriba Puck series are light and there are several more but most all are two berth.

Tow a trailer and you could carry a huge 6 berth tent like the Outwell Willwood.

[Shawry85]

On 28/08/2019 at 08:11, gumdrop said:

The Eriba Puck series are light and there are several more but most all are two berth.

Tow a trailer and you could carry a huge 6 berth tent like the Outwell Willwood.

I wish that was an option, we already have a trailer tent will towed with an old focus, but our girls are at the age of wanting to help/ not actually helping 😁 so the wife has said can we go for a tourer caravan and not have to worry about the set up process of the trailer tent (is for sale guys if anybody is after one ahahaha)

[nige8021]

A German friend tows an Eriba puck 2 berth with his Polo 6N1