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Topic: bmw tow car

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paul52

22/2/2007 at 8:38pm
Location: bromley
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Hi all just wondered if there are many of you who tow with a bmw please no jokes about bmw drivers. .lol. we have a bmw 728 auto steptrontic 1996 but we get great mpg when towing ie 25mpg. some of you on here with Diesels dont seem to get much more mpg. and by the way our van van is a big 5 berth swift so quite a heaver van hope to hear from other bmw drivers regards paul

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Les4paintings

22/2/2007 at 8:48pm
Location: Pontefract West Yorkshire
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Hiya' Paul.

Never managed to own a BMW but the usual difficulty is because they are a fast 'sporty' car they can be a little High Geared for towing. (Can't have everything I suppose.) But with yours being both powerful AND an automatic then I reckon you could have the ideal tow machine.

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stuart69

23/2/2007 at 9:42am
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Hi Paul

I tow with a 320d no problems, mind you I haven't towed with anything else.

It pulls a Bailey Ranger 510/4 so not the heaviest van.

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Stuart

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mbeddoe

25/2/2007 at 4:21pm
Location: Staffs
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My 530d pulls our Adria 5 berth (only a light van) without any hassle what so ever. Could still out accelerate most things on the road with the van on the back! Not that I do that of course, well once (from the lights), boy racer chav, needed showing whats what!

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SCOOBYJASMINE

28/2/2007 at 9:11pm
Location: Warwickshire
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We towed with our 5 series, but it didn't help the automatic gear box.

So we sold it. Now tow with a frontera it's a lot better.Don't get that rocking/jerking feeling that we had when we towed with a car.

Nice cars though, especially automatic kickdown.

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