Towbar Fitter Starting Stock Package in a Standard Duty Specification

Stock rather than a single part: the sockets, plugs, relays, looms, bulbs and consumables that a new towbar fitter gets wrong the order of, plus the tools that are not in a general set.

Towing is the one thing you can buy for a car where the wrong part is not merely disappointing. Every towbar listing here states the type approval number, the D value, the maximum noseweight and whether the bumper has to be cut, because those four facts decide whether a bar is legal on your vehicle and whether it will pull what you want to pull. Every electrical listing says plainly whether it is a dedicated loom or a universal one with a bypass relay, and what each will and will not do. We would rather lose a sale to a cheaper part than sell you one that does not fit.

Specification

• Fits: a workshop rather than a vehicle. The contents list is published in full on this page as a PDF before you buy
• Approval: every part in the package carries its own approval where one applies, and the sockets and plugs are to ISO 1724 for 7 pin and ISO 11446 for 13 pin
• Rating: trade quantities, with the pack sizes chosen from what actually gets used rather than from what suppliers like to box
• D value: not applicable, this is an accessory rather than a load bearing towing part
• Noseweight: not applicable
• Ball height: not applicable
• Electrics: the electrical contents are listed part number by part number, so you can reorder a single line rather than a whole package
• Fitting time: not applicable, this is stock
• Bumper: not applicable
• Materials: the standard specification, which covers the great majority of cars and caravans on UK roads
• Weight: approximately 68.4 kilograms
• Guarantee: two years on the tools, and the consumables are covered by their own manufacturers
• Contents: published in full, with part numbers, so you can price it against your existing supplier line by line
• Reordering: every line is available individually and held in UK stock
• Account: 30 day terms on approval, and we take purchase orders
• Load tester: included in the fitter packages. A test lamp will light on a circuit that cannot run a trailer's lamps, and a load tester will not
• Training: a half day with one of our fitters is available with the starting stock package at no charge

What arrives

• every part listed on the published contents sheet
• a labelled drawer insert or case
• a load tester where the package includes one
• a reorder card with every part number
• a trade account application

Fitting

Nothing to fit. The case or drawer insert is labelled to the contents sheet, so a part that is missing is visibly missing rather than discovered missing on a job.

Before you order

The published contents sheet is the point of this page. A trade package with a vague description is a way of selling slow moving stock, so every line here has a part number, is available individually, and can be priced against whatever you buy now. If half of it duplicates what is already on your shelf, buy the other half as lines.