Who tows what with their Tig?

[ethosguy]

I don't see why that would be an issue, the tsi engine is a great little thing. My father in law has towed cars with his Rodeo which is a heap of crap compared to the Tig.

I'll be towing a small trailer carrying 2 motorbikes which is about 500kg or so. Will do it no probs.

The VW tow package was insanely expensive. I'm going to grab the hitch and wiring harness from etrailer and slap it on.

I don't see why that would be an issue, the tsi engine is a great little thing. My father in law has towed cars with his Rodeo which is a heap of crap compared to the Tig.

I'll be towing a small trailer carrying 2 motorbikes which is about 500kg or so. Will do it no probs.

The VW tow package was insanely expensive. I'm going to grab the hitch and wiring harness from etrailer and slap it on.

You may or may not know the expensive tow pack includes ESP (correct trailer sway) reverse sensors and other software compensations for towing.

[T&M]

as expensive as the tow pack is, we recently bit the bullet and had it fitted last service. now we take the tig to the rubbish tip with a box trailer behind it!!! yippee
seriously, we can easily tow a double jetski trailer, or a fully loaded trailer with camping gear etc, or a small Jayco style pop top camper trailer.
The TDI with auto combo is great!!
Anything larger than the above, or for a more longer touring escape, we take the larger 4wd as it gives us more room inside too, and the Engel fridge takes up all the Tigs rear space on its own...

[jimbomort]

agree, we've approached from the oppsoite end, have had a the tow pack for a while, but are now athe proud owner of a 8*4 trailer (and who ever knew a trailer could give such joy!). The Tig is handling very well (manual tsi with stage 1), though we haven't towed the trailer it fully loaded yet (with the exception of a big load of yard debris, but not that heavy)

As an indication of how easily it is doing though, I gave an AUDI TTrs a real surprise the other morning. I was approaching a big steep hill that breaks into an overtaking lane just as it goes from 60 to a 100. A 4wd was just in front of me and I was towing a trailer with a few things in it, so hauling about 300kg behind the Tig and the AUDI TT was behind me, and obviously keen to get going. So I decided to surprise him and decked it in 3rd at 60 to overtake the 4wd and the Tig with trailer up a very steep hill was up too a 100 in no time. I dare say he wasn't expecting a small suv towing a trailer up a steep hill to pull away from him, especially when he was champing at the bit!

Anyway point is, with so much in reserve towing the trailer is no drama at all.

[T&M]

Our auto has EASILY towed a 7x5 boxie fully loaded with all sort of stuff - landscaping stuff, rubbish to the tip, house stuff between moves etc etc... I had to keep checking the mirrors to see that it was still connected to the Tig!! The TDI's are great torquie little units though.

[epilot]

interestingly i had the opportunity to hook my mates boat up to the Tig yesterday.

1500kg total mass on a dual axle trailer, total down weight on the tow ball 85kg (we weighed it to ease my mind)

car towed the boat quite easily and was pretty settled on the road.

dsg did not like reversing up a slight incline and with my inexperience i got a warning of dsg o'heating- it was also 43 deg outside...

[Creniac]

epilot, I watched a guy in a DSG tiggy try pulling a boat out of the water the other day and it was painful...... the boat was a 18.5ft Bayliner so around 1300kg on trailer.... he was trying to pull away slowly but the DSG was trying to engage first gear fully, he couldn't get the revs up and the DSG disengages itself. He ended up having to have someone pull him out.... he was not happy. If towing boats out on incline ramps at slow speed, either manual or conventional Auto is the way to go.

[jcubed]

From way back when, pre-lift days.



Note the nose-up/squatting attitude of the car.

Being a rented trailer I thought these things were balanced, but with the (full) fridge in the nose section, it was heavy to the point where it took two people to lift. This we only realized once breaking up camp for the return journey, as the nose wheel had sunk into the grass.

The fridge was then removed and transported home in the boot of the car, with the spare wheel moved to the back of the trailer for counter-balance, which made it much better.

[jimbomort]

Great looking country there JJJ and yes that does look a nose heavy trailer.....and two to lift, wow that was heavy!

[Creniac]

I towed my boat for the first time today and the Tig did it with ease, my rig on the trailer is 1000kg all up.
Some vehicles get thrown around and you can definately feel the weight when towing but this was not the case today with the Tig.
One learning though......... the autohold does not hold the car and boat as you go to start off..... you need to apply park brake, ease the clutch out until it begins to grab, give it a few revs (around 1500), tap the park brake and away you go..... no problem at all.