i am planning to go to belgium on thursday to pick up my broken cossie. the plan was to hire a trailer and tow it with my galaxy, but i've since found out that the weight is too much

what i am looking for now, is somewhere that rents out a transit type flatbed vehicle to use, as it is hopefully less hassle and cheaper than renting a van or 4x4 and a trailer.

does anybody know a place that rents them? hopefully close to reading/bracknell, but willing to travel if necessary.

something like this:

http://www.carandvanhire.co.uk/car-transporter.html



thanks for any help

 

SOUTHERN SELF DRIVE in Fareham Hampshire

I hired a 08 plate one of above but IVECO one remote control wynch etc
6-speed happily did 95mph with the car on the back, on a private road of course.

It cost me from a Friday 8am to a sunday 8am £185 weekdays are cheaper.

 

thanks Luke, that could work

any more folks?

 

That's a lot less than I thought it would be, have to write that number down.
tabetha

 

is that the estate?

 

no mate, the estate was broken over 2 years ago to part fund a house deposit

this is the 'ring taxi' - a sapphire that 3 of us jointly own for track days, 'ring jollys etc

 

2 years?

ah ok is it white? i rem so ething now and also wish i read your sig lol

whats up with it?

 

https://passionford.com/forum/general-car-related-discussion/264049-well-i-had-fun-tonight-and-im-500-quid-lighter.html

Send a PM to this guy, I heard he's good with recovery

 

you coont

 

Did you get it sorted matey?

 

luca sum daft cunt wrote it off a while back and they only had one , does that 999 geezer live in pompey

 

got one arranged and am off in the morning

got it from newbury, could come in handy for 'ring trips etc

http://www.sterlinggarage.co.uk/transporterhire.htm

 

How did you sort this bit matey?

 

www.tempcover.com

i get the impression that they don't hire it out much as i asked why they don't insure it and include it in the cost and he said that it's not cost effective. so maybe a deal to be had on it for a long weekend at the 'ring

 

I just spoke to Nick he is at Dover with his film-maker

 

Nick,

what has broken on the cossie or dont you know until you get there?

 

dunno if this it too late, but ive got a brian james you could have borrowed Nick.

 

Its not the trailer he had a problem with - but the weight he could tow!

No good being impounded for being over weight and then needing to get two cars hom from France say!!

Alex

 

Now its funny you say that mate(not the 999 user bit, although that is funny) but i saw "The Truck" in question on the road about 2 weeks later, same reg etc same stickers etc, so if they only have one its repaired....

So i gave them a call and said is the transporter back in yet, the answer i got was no its still out on long term hire.

So basically IMO the cunts fobbed me off saying it was crashed to hire it out to a company for a long period of time - Bunch of pikey feckers!!.

Hopefully there see sense and buy/hire another out soon.

 

i didn't know what had broken rich - just had the information that there was a terrible noise in the engine and it no longer turns over. it was recovered to the nearest place off the motorway where we collected it from.

did a little bit of investigation at the port and all oil and water was in place, cambelt was in place and plugs 1 to 3 looked fine but found that no.4 spark plug would not come out. have now found out the rest of the damage, will do a couple of new topics later.

thanks a lot mike next time i may be able to borrow a 4x4 to tow with, so may tap you up for it in the future

exactly. could have been treble the misery if 2 cars and a trailer had been impounded by belgian, french or english police at any point along the route.

also turns out that it took a lot longer than i had initially thought to get there and back, and you would not want to be towing a trailer at the speeds that we doing

they told me that it was out on long term hire