So I am with my cousin he gets a call yesterday to go tow a stranded colleague with a nissan sylphy or skyline kitu kama hiyo (anatafuta soko by the way imekataa kuuzika juu ni nissan na ni 3500 cc. Kama unadai sema uuziwe) mahali inaitwa Lwanda.
Sasa i got into an arguement about how to tow cars. I know haifai a car ikiwe towed on its driving wheels ndio maana AWD needs flat bed and fwd need to be raised. He towed that car with an NZE to Mumias. So makosa inafanyika ama ni AWD cars tu ndio shida kuwa towed hivi? And sasa ukiwa na Subaru AWD ukwame yaani lazima utafute flat bed?
F for a friend
It is a slow monday
General transmission issues tayarisha mfuko.
Forrowing too
does this mean lazima we call tow trucks?even so for fwd it is easy but sasa awd nitafute flat bed jameni. Watu wa subaru wako wapi?
@Meria Mata and @amun on the same issue of towingi have seen some trucks cabins ripped off during towing sometimes the whole front axle shida huwa nini haswa?
Luanda to mumias sio mbali omwami.
n for neutral allows the wheels to roll regardless of transmission, so you can tow.
So iko safe over short distances?
I have had conflicting reports that hata on neutral ni kuharibu tu gari over a long distancr
If using driving wheels, the max distance should be about 20km alafu speed mos mos kama baiskeli.
Inaharibika aje?
Line of drive train undergoing stress of some sort.
Even AWD?
Cars have been towed ever since the Model T, wacheni uoga.
The important thing is for the towee to be very alert and the tower to drive in a deliberate predictable manner.
AWD wekelea kwa trailer ama uwe tayari kuanza bedwetting juu ya damages.
ATi nini? hio ni kama Maseno to Busia! was the car towed while in Neutral? dumb question yes but I saw my wife akiambia wasee wamsaidie kuskuma Note while the gears were engaged… [SIZE=3]the positive terminal had shaken loose…gari ikazima[/SIZE]. I left them there wapambane na hali yao…
Waliweka neutral. I am honestly interested in a subaru legacy na najua most if not all are AWD then that happen jana nikajiuliza maswali mob na we had an argurment about it. I guess that guy anafaa kujitayarisha na repairs za gearbox akiendelea kuvutwa vutwa. As for me.i might steer clear of AWD
Interesting comments all around, towing is not a black and white affair, even in neutral you can fuckup the whole bunch of things if done over long distances (BTW long is relative)
That’s why some cars don’t even have that tow hook on the front, they only allow/have a hook at the rear so that you pull it straight onto a flatbed truck in reverse
What if you disconnect the drive shaftd from the rear wheels if its a 4wd then tow