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Tawny Owl
 


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England 2005 Discovery 3 TDV6 Base 7 Seat Auto Java BlackDiscovery 3

Andrew ,

The AA guys are following procedure , the way they have been taught is to never use a towing/recovery eye to winch onto a truck and to always use a sling on the bottom suspension arm.
I was told this the last time I broke down and was recovered.

EDIT ; Cant see a problem though Slimer if the recovery eye is rated to 6t , why not use this Confused 

Last edited by Tawny Owl on 26th Aug 2009 8:25 pm. Edited 2 times in total 
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Slimer
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The D3 doesn't have a towing eye though, it's got a recovery point rated to something like 6t, presumably if the AA are taking on LRA tasks their training would have covered this? Confused The End  
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ayrshiredisco
 


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Scotland 2005 Discovery 3 TDV6 S Manual Buckingham BlueDiscovery 3

Tawnyowl wrote:
Andrew ,

Its a BIG NO NO for AA patrols / recovery guys to winch any vehicle onto a flatbed truck using a towing eye for safety reasons and that being if the weld around the towing cracks the towing eye could break off leaving 2.7 tons of metal flying down the road Whistle



cause obviously the recovery point will fail



think this clip might suggest otherwise If in doubt............flat out.


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Post #51192926th Aug 2009 7:30 pm
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Every time either of my D3s has been put on a flatbed (5 between the 2 of them in total from memory) the recovery truck chap didn't think twice about using the recovery eye (either LRA just sent a truck or RAC guy had b Censored d off) Maybe the recovery guys hadn't been on the AA how to do it training course!   
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