http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=42611&item=4538993969&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVWSo I'm cruising Ebay on my lunch hour for car stuff and I run across this. Rotors and a tow bar for a 95 dodge stealth twin turbo. The thing that caught my attention is the tow bar. I believe that it says on my car itself somewhere not to tow a trailer, and if it's not on the car I know for sure that it's in the owners manual.
When I was reading the owners manual I thought it was slightly odd, as I did not understand what it would hurt. Does it put to much weight on the rear wheels and thus more load on the VCU, which adds heat, and leads to an early death? Or is there simply no good spot to mount the tow bar? Is the owners manual in the wrong? Is it because dodge did not write HEMI on the side of our cars, and thus without the badging adding 150 ft-lbs of torque they knew it would never be able to pull a small trailer loaded with feather pillows off the line. Or did dodge simply pull the wool over my eyes, and it is perfectly acceptable to pull a small trailer provided that you hook up the lights correctly.
The guy says that it is an oem part, also. This confuses me as it is in direct conflict with my owners manaul. Or perhaps California got a different stealth than those of us in the Midwest, as Dodge just assumed we all had four wheel drive trucks with tabacco stains down the side already to pull stuff with.
The only reason I ask is because I know a guy with a vette that has a trailer hitch on it that he uses to pull a custom trailer behind him for his drap slicks, and other fun stuff he uses at the track, then he can switch it all back, and drop the stuff off at the garage and go play on the streets.
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I just looked again at the price, and for 10 bucks, I may have to own it, just to say I have one. I don't think that it will ever see my car though...
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