Moving a SORN donor 5 miles?

[MightyMouth]

What would be the cheapest legal way to move a SORN Sierra 5 miles. I have a tow bar on my car but I am not sure what the legal towing capacity of my car is. It is an Audi A6 2.4. Can I hire a trailer and tow with my car or do I need to ring a tow truck etc?

[Rik178m]

Legally you can't tow it on a rope. Aslong as its not touching the road ie on a trailer then your fine. But 5 miles is a very short trip if you get what I'm saying. tow trucks are going to be expensive I would have thought

[AshG]

i know people that have on several occasions towed non tax'd, non-mot'd cars with another car from gatwick to dover without any trouble. they accidentally tape the on tow sign in a way accidentally covers the numberplate so the anpr cameras dont cop them.

how ever you do it make sure the number plate is covered even if its on a trailer as the anpr cameras will send you a nice fine.

[MightyMouth]

I did say legal hehe, There are no cameras from there to here, all a and b roads and its less than 5 miles but my luck I would pass a mobile tax stop thingy or something. Would my car be legal to tow a sierra on a trailer?

[Bonzo]

A frame , trailer or recovery truck. Are the legal options.

Your Audi handbook should give you the maximum braked trailer weight for you car.

If you have insurance cover for it perhaps you could book it in for a test near to the location where you wish to move the car too.

You do not need to have Road tax or MOT to take a vehicle to and from a MOT test.
I believe the same rules also apply if you wish to move the vehicle to a place of repair. ;) ;)

[Rik178m]

If you have a mate driving a couple of mins ahead of you he can be your spotter

[Bonzo]

i know people that have on several occasions towed non tax'd, non-mot'd cars with another car from gatwick to dover without any trouble. they accidentally tape the on tow sign in a way accidentally covers the numberplate so the anpr cameras dont cop them.

how ever you do it make sure the number plate is covered even if its on a trailer as the anpr cameras will send you a nice fine.

I have towed a shed load of cars to the breakers with my A frame.

Also some long distance trips as well.

Rover 400 from Birmingham, Vauxhall corsa also from Birmingham. Ford fiesta from Swindon. Triumph vitesse form Dorset.

All of them all the way to cornwall. All with exeption of the fiesta had no documentation.
Passed dozens of Patroll cars & plenty of ANPR cameras. No interest shown by any of them. :) :)

I bought my Mazda down to Cornwall from Essex on a trailer behind my Citroen BX estate. That was a bit hairy. :eek: Bloody 22hr round trip :o

[MightyMouth]

Anyone know the average cost to hire a transporter trailer?

Anyone near Hinckley got a trailer they will loan me? Beer tokens? :)

[MightyMouth]

If you have a mate driving a couple of mins ahead of you he can be your spotter

I only have one mate :( so he would have to be in the sierra stopping it from running into the back of me :D

[jasongray5]

Befriend a farmer, Then have him lend you a tractor with a loader and a trailer... Lift the car onto the trailer, then dump the car at yours, then return the tractor and trailer!!
Alternatively, whats your network of backroads like??
Jas Gray

[MightyMouth]

This (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=barwell&daddr=Hinckley,+Leicestershire,+LE10+1RY&hl=en&geocode=&mra=ls&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=18.77642,39.550781&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=52.559656,-1.344452&spn=0.037621,0.077248&z=14) is how far I need to go and the roads I need to travel

[les g]

on tow signs covering number plate and a towing dolly must be the easiest option
cheers les g

[deezee]

Anyone know the average cost to hire a transporter trailer?

Anyone near Hinckley got a trailer they will loan me? Beer tokens? :)

Car Transporter Trailer hire can be had for around £75 for 24hrs, or £150 for a week. Maybe less if you haggle. I've been looking into the whole trailer thing, cos all the cheap donor cars are without MOT and Tax.

[jasongray5]

Why not book it in for an MOT near your house, you pick it up and drive towards the MOT station, And say it breaks Down, right outside your house?

[SeriesLandy]

When I went to go and get my donor it was about 50minutes away. I got insurance (£20ish) but it didn't have tax, it did have an mot. I did try and get tax from the post office but they wouldn't take my faxed copy of the insurance.
I didn't get stopped but if I did I had it "booked" into my mates gargage just incase and would have said it was sold without an MOT.

[Bonzo]

This (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=barwell&daddr=Hinckley,+Leicestershire,+LE10+1RY&hl=en&geocode=&mra=ls&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=18.77642,39.550781&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=52.559656,-1.344452&spn=0.037621,0.077248&z=14) is how far I need to go and the roads I need to travel

To be honest with you. For such a short distance, I would just tow it. Just make sure the brakes & tyres are OK .

In the unlikely event that you are pulled over " You are taking it to a place of repair " & " This has been pre arranged " ( On tow over the donors Plate )

You can pick up a rigid tow pole for not very much if you dont fancy a rope. ;)

[MightyMouth]

Sorry,

I failed to mention it has a broken cam belt. Has to be towed one way or another.

[kmc]

I picked up a sierra on Monday and drove 15 miles on the back roads from Larne to Belfast, no mot or tax, had insurance, past 2 cop cars,
the car started to go off a cylinder or 2 last 5 mins, thought i was gonna have to get out and ditch the car, if it had of stalled and the cops were to come along, allsorts of fines, car impounded, points on me licence, would have been cheaper to leave it at the side of the road..
the reason I took the risk, I couldn’t find a donor anywhere, this one turned up in a scrap yard, and the scrap man said a few stock car boys where sniffing round it so I paid him £150 and came out of the scrap yard (sideways) trying not to draw attention to myself.
Dedicated to my build I guess
took me around 20mins to get home,
sweating like a whore all the way..



i was breakin the law breakin the law

[jasongray5]

I picked up a sierra on Monday and drove 15 miles on the back roads from Larne to Belfast, no mot or tax, had insurance, past 2 cop cars,
the car started to go off a cylinder or 2 last 5 mins, thought i was gonna have to get out and ditch the car, if it had of stalled and the cops were to come along, allsorts of fines, car impounded, points on me licence, would have been cheaper to leave it at the side of the road..
the reason I took the risk, I couldn’t find a donor anywhere, this one turned up in a scrap yard, and the scrap man said a few stock car boys where sniffing round it so I paid him £150 and came out of the scrap yard (sideways) trying not to draw attention to myself.
Dedicated to my build I guess
took me around 20mins to get home,
sweating like a whore all the way..



i was breakin the law breakin the law

Good lad!!

[MightyMouth]

I managed to get my donor home in the end too. I won't say how. ;)

[flyerncle]

If you need to tow anything again Mightymouth,the largest number on the chassis plate is the max vehicle weight with trailer etc or GTW to give it the proper title,Gross Train Weight. All this means is the weight of the car and what you are towing add up to GTW,other two numbers are axle weights and add up to max design weight of car.

Cheers.