Re: [diesel_mercedes] Re: Pulling a trailer with 240D

    These stories make an old man start to get nostalgic. 

 

    Back in 1980, the network made me an offer.  So I moved from Boston to Burbank.  My driver was a 1977 non-turbo diesel Rabbit.  I had a hitch put on it then went and got the biggest box trailer JarTran (remember them) would rent me. 

 

    That Rabbit hauled that JarTran trailer, with most of what I owned in it, accross the country from Boston to Burbank.  The little Rabbit towing the big JarTran looked like a semitrailer rig that got washed in hot water and shrunk down.  It got laughed at every time I pulled into a truck stop to fuel up. 

 

    But it came across the country, over every mountain range (at about the same pace as some of the big rigs).  I'm sure that VW would never have approved of towing that size or weight of trailer.  Averaged about 30 mpg on that trip. 

 

    That little Rabbit lasted for years after that adventure. 

 

    If the VW could do it, I expect that our benz's can do it.  The hitch on my '81 SD is a class I, bolted through the belly pan of the trunk.  The real problem with it is my rear is too low, and the hitch drags on road dips and curb crossings. 

 

Tom

 

 

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