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lightning



Member Since: 23 Apr 2009
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Towing a caravan
We are planning to tow a small (1,000kg) caravan with our 90 Commercial. This version of the Defender comes with coil springs and it's around £1600 extra for air suspension.

ls this something we need to add
to the options list? Opinions seem varied on the forums. The caravan has a nose weight of around 80kg and we'll probably have around 100kg in the back of the Defender.

My old 110 has no problem with this setup, the back only sits about 1" lower! But the springs on the 110 are heavy duty.
Post #961859 16th Aug 2022 11:13am
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X4SKP



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United Kingdom 2010 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 SW Stornoway Grey
Hello lightning

I'd try both the sprung and air options and judge which is best for the majority of your driving to see if
the air option overall makes sense... it may in itself justify the cost just for towing with the ride height selection (as I understand it).

We have 'only' the old school coil sprung Defenders to judge the towing experience a 2010 90 and 2011 110. Our 540Eriba's loaded weight is 1200kgs with a 'standard' nose down bias / nose weight (which I have yet to measure) both vehicles tow this caravan with ease, being essentially the same width and height as a Defender...we are almost always the smallest on site (if you discount the VW Transporters).

Personally as has been discussed with Air Suspension it's good until it isn't, time will tell if it's got longevity, worst case with the older 'analogue' set up is that you could swap it out yourself with some relatively simple tools having watched a couple of YouTube videos.


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Good luck... SKIP
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Post #961870 16th Aug 2022 12:51pm
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JackW



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Ralph Sarek tows a 19' Airstream with his D-90



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I tow an Eriba puck with my Land Rovers - neither of them even know its back there



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And my previous LR3 towed the Eriba Triton with ease



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Nazca sand eddie



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I tow a 1450kg mptw caravan with my New Defender 90 HSE D250.

I have the deplorable tow ball, and air suspension.

Only towed 200 odd miles so far and it compares very well to the Discovery 4 that I had.

I particularly wanted the air suspension for the ride comfort, off road use, and the ability to raise or lower the suspension on the occasional time that the jockey wheel has either run out of height adjustment or has too much. I assume the Commercial has the buttons just inside the rear door to manually operate the suspension height like the normal models.

If you have the Al-Ko 3004 stabiliser, then there is another post on this forum about how people have over come the arm from fouling the bottom of the spare wheel on hitching up.

Hope my information helps you decide.
Post #962230 19th Aug 2022 9:35am
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lightning



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Thank you for the information, l think it may be too late now to alter the specification of my 90 Commercial as it's now being built in October, but l will ask the question.
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blackwolf



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Nazca sand eddie wrote:
... I have the deplorable tow ball, and air suspension ...


Rolling with laughter

    deplorable

    /dɪˈplɔːrəb(ə)l/

    adjective


    deserving strong condemnation; completely unacceptable.

    shockingly bad in quality.


I hope that isn't the case, but it is a Landrover! Laughing
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LandRoverAnorak



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I think the deplorable tow bar was the one that would fall out of the rear of a Discovery Laughing Darren

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