Bent a few in my time, even with a straight bar wood chipper. It being a lighter gauge steel probably saved more damage to the L200. Harder to repair body work damage and lights. Cheers
Yeh, I'd say nearly if it had an angle iron welded drawbar it may have stopped the trailer coming round as far and hitting bodywork but who knows. It sure was easier to fix being bolted on
Class job👌🏻 Have you thought about some barwork like the tube on the ARB rear bumper?. Google this: ARB Rear Step Tow Bar Bumper Mitsubishi L200 ML MN Series 4 B40 2005-15 And technically speaking what you done was the car equivalent of reversing into a bollard. The trailer cam belt snapping equivalent would be the trailer detaching on the motorway at 60mph, hopping the central barrier, side swiping a DVSA van then slaming head on into a police car who the officer's missus has run off with a farmer🤣
Wow that has escalated quickly! Yeh I would like that ARB barwork on both my Mitsubishi's but it isn't the cheapest. Would take a while to fab anything decent up aswell
@@StevenRobertTaylor Fair1, a mate who has a D22 Nav is kicking himself for not getting a ARB bumper at pre pandemic prices. I was wondering about fabricobbling something up with 4.8mm scaffold tubing. Or a tube to sleeve over the current bar with a 90 degree bend bring it towards your rear wheel. Then a straight pipe welded to the tube and bolted to the chassis to support. Or good old angle iron😉
I like the pulling setup with the hoist off the wall. Nothing worse than forgetting the trailer is on and doing damage!
Cheers! That was unplanned, I backed in coincidentally in line with that stanchion and the rest is history!
How did you fix the hoist?@@StevenRobertTaylor
@@aaron1727 there was an old hanger for a gate I just hooked it onto that
Bent a few in my time, even with a straight bar wood chipper. It being a lighter gauge steel probably saved more damage to the L200. Harder to repair body work damage and lights.
Cheers
Yeh, I'd say nearly if it had an angle iron welded drawbar it may have stopped the trailer coming round as far and hitting bodywork but who knows. It sure was easier to fix being bolted on
Class job👌🏻
Have you thought about some barwork like the tube on the ARB rear bumper?. Google this:
ARB Rear Step Tow Bar Bumper Mitsubishi L200 ML MN Series 4 B40 2005-15
And technically speaking what you done was the car equivalent of reversing into a bollard.
The trailer cam belt snapping equivalent would be the trailer detaching on the motorway at 60mph, hopping the central barrier, side swiping a DVSA van then slaming head on into a police car who the officer's missus has run off with a farmer🤣
Wow that has escalated quickly! Yeh I would like that ARB barwork on both my Mitsubishi's but it isn't the cheapest. Would take a while to fab anything decent up aswell
@@StevenRobertTaylor
Fair1, a mate who has a D22 Nav is kicking himself for not getting a ARB bumper at pre pandemic prices.
I was wondering about fabricobbling something up with 4.8mm scaffold tubing.
Or a tube to sleeve over the current bar with a 90 degree bend bring it towards your rear wheel. Then a straight pipe welded to the tube and bolted to the chassis to support.
Or good old angle iron😉
Yeh it could be done easy enough just take plenty of time. Not sure there is much that would have held up against that kind of torque