Unbraked Trailer Package Under 750kg in a Premium Specification

A trailer with everything it needs: an unbraked trailer, which is legal up to 750kg gross and is a great deal simpler to own and to service.

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: any towing vehicle with a 50mm ball and the gross train weight to match. Send us the registration and we will confirm what your vehicle may legally pull
• Approval: European whole vehicle type approval for the trailer, with a VIN plate stating the gross and unladen masses. Since December 2021 a driver with an ordinary category B licence in Great Britain may tow a trailer up to 3500kg maximum authorised mass without a further test. That changed the market and a great deal of advice online still predates it. It did not change the vehicle's own towing limit, which is in the handbook and on the VIN plate and is the number that actually binds you.
• Rating: stated on the VIN plate, and the payload is the gross figure minus the unladen figure rather than the number in the advertisement
• D value: the trailer's coupling is rated in kN and the figure is on the coupling. It must be at or above your combination's D value. The D value is the measure of how hard a towbar can be pulled. It is worked out from the towing vehicle's maximum mass and the trailer's maximum mass together, in kilonewtons, and the bar's D value has to be equal to or greater than the figure your combination produces. We publish it on every bar and there is a calculator linked from every towbar page.
• Noseweight: 75kg at the coupling, and the lowest of that, your towbar's S value and your vehicle handbook is the one that applies. Noseweight is the downward load the trailer puts on the ball, and the figure you may use is the lowest of four numbers: the towbar's S value, the vehicle handbook's noseweight limit, the towball's rating and the caravan coupling's rating. Most people know the first and none of the other three, and a combination that is legal on paper is often over the limit on the one that matters.
• Ball height: 350 to 420mm laden at the coupling, which is why a lifted pickup often needs a drop plate
• Electrics: 13 pin as standard, with a 7 pin adaptor in the box. A 7 pin 12N plug carries lighting only. A 13 pin plug to ISO 11446 carries the lighting plus a permanent feed, a switched feed and a fridge feed for a caravan, in one connector. If you are towing a caravan or anything with a battery in it, 13 pin is the answer. If you are towing a trailer with nothing but lamps on it, 7 pin is genuinely enough and we will not upsell you.
• Fitting time: assembled and road tested before dispatch. Choose the fitted option above and we will also fit and test the towbar electrics on your vehicle
• Bumper: not applicable
• Materials: the specification we would fit to our own vehicle, with the parts that wear chosen for life rather than for price
• Weight: approximately 153 kilograms unladen
• Guarantee: three years on the chassis, one year on the running gear
• Brakes: unbraked, which is lawful up to 750kg gross and no further. A trailer over 750kg gross must have brakes, and it must have a breakaway cable connected to the vehicle rather than looped over the towball as a formality. A breakaway cable that is not attached to a fixed point does nothing at all in the one moment it exists for.
• Breakaway: a safety chain rather than a breakaway cable, which is what an unbraked trailer requires
• Number plate: the trailer must carry a plate matching the towing vehicle. One is included and we will make it to your registration
• Registration: a trailer over 750kg taken abroad may need registering under the Trailer Registration Scheme. We will tell you whether yours does
• Servicing: the bearings and the brakes want checking annually, and a trailer that lives outside wants it more often

What arrives

• the trailer, assembled and road tested
• a lighting board or fitted lamps as specified
• a spare wheel and carrier
• a jockey wheel
• a fitted cover where included
• a number plate made to your registration
• the VIN plate, the type approval papers and a servicing schedule

Fitting

It arrives assembled and road tested. What usually needs doing is at the car end: check the vehicle's gross train weight in the handbook, confirm the towbar's D value covers the combination, and test the socket under load rather than with a test lamp. Choose the fitted option and we do all three and give you it in writing.

Before you order

Since December 2021 a driver with an ordinary category B licence in Great Britain may tow a trailer up to 3500kg maximum authorised mass without a further test. That changed the market and a great deal of advice online still predates it. It did not change the vehicle's own towing limit, which is in the handbook and on the VIN plate and is the number that actually binds you. What still binds you is the vehicle. The handbook and the VIN plate give a maximum towing mass and a gross train weight, and the gross train weight is the one people forget: it is the car plus everything in it plus the trailer plus everything on it, and a fully loaded family car with a heavy trailer will exceed it long before the trailer reaches its own limit.