towbar available yet

[Mitch AC DC]

tow bar available for mk1 mg5 yet

 

[Lguk]

Mg5 pre-face-lift models do not have type approval for towing. Any vehicle first registered after 1998 requires type approval for a tow bar to be fitted. Nobody can legally fit one, so no one is going to manufacture one to fit. Making your own/adjusting one that's available on the market is also not legal to fit.

 

[Mitch AC DC]

Mg5 pre-face-lift models do not have type approval for towing. Any vehicle first registered after 1998 requires type approval for a tow bar to be fitted. Nobody can legally fit one, so no one is going to manufacture one to fit. Making your own/adjusting one that's available on the market is also not legal to fit.

So "type approval" is the drawback [bugger]. anyone know what MG "did" to the facelift, that makes a difference?

 

[Lguk]

So "type approval" is the drawback [bugger]. anyone know what MG "did" to the facelift, that makes a difference?

Most likely completed the forms fully.
Like the roof rail certification, I very much doubt the SR and LR are any different apart from paperwork that means one is 50kg and the other 75kg.

 

[Deleted member 7316]

If the gross train weight is the same as the gross vehicle weight you can't tow ( no "spare" kgs )

I think there was a tow bar from one manufacturer but only to be used for cycle carriers (might have been Brink?)