Question for anyone with a tow bar (don't laugh!) and also at the risk of sounding like a right Norbert I can't find in the manual or any vids online but can I just pull the lever in the boot and deploy the tow bar or do I need to remove a diffuser cover at all?
Thanks
Tow Bar
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Misanoredrs4
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Tow Bar
2015 B8.5 RS4 Avant Suzuka Grey
2023 Lotus Emira First Edition 3.5 V6 Manual Seneca Blue
Audi History:
2020 SQ7 Floret Silver
2017 S5 Cab Mythos Black
2017 TTS Imola Yellow
2017 C7 RS6 Performance Nardo Grey
2015 C7 RS6 Porsche Riviera Blue
2015 SQ5 Sprint Blue - Gone, not quite special enough
2006 B7 RS4 Misano Red - panicked and sold big mistake
So much crap prior to this can't actually remember
2023 Lotus Emira First Edition 3.5 V6 Manual Seneca Blue
Audi History:
2020 SQ7 Floret Silver
2017 S5 Cab Mythos Black
2017 TTS Imola Yellow
2017 C7 RS6 Performance Nardo Grey
2015 C7 RS6 Porsche Riviera Blue
2015 SQ5 Sprint Blue - Gone, not quite special enough
2006 B7 RS4 Misano Red - panicked and sold big mistake
So much crap prior to this can't actually remember
Re: Tow Bar
Pretty sure there is a bit of the diffuser that needs to come off but that's just from looking at photos of diffusers, have no actual experience.
Re: Tow Bar
You need to pull the central section of the diffuser off first, or the towing head will just drop down inside the diffuser. It's a reaaaallly badly made bit of plastic - I am always convinced that I am going to break it every time I pull it out or refit it. So much so that, if I think I might use the tow bar again any time soon, I leave it off! It does come off with persistance, though, and I haven't broken mine yet....
You can easily see the removable section, it's about 14 inches wide in the centre of the diffuser.
You can easily see the removable section, it's about 14 inches wide in the centre of the diffuser.
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Re: Tow Bar
Top man thanks I thought as much and got what a pig to get off you were spit on convinced I had broken it !wildbore wrote: ↑Fri Apr 14, 2017 3:38 pmYou need to pull the central section of the diffuser off first, or the towing head will just drop down inside the diffuser. It's a reaaaallly badly made bit of plastic - I am always convinced that I am going to break it every time I pull it out or refit it. So much so that, if I think I might use the tow bar again any time soon, I leave it off! It does come off with persistance, though, and I haven't broken mine yet....
You can easily see the removable section, it's about 14 inches wide in the centre of the diffuser.
2015 B8.5 RS4 Avant Suzuka Grey
2023 Lotus Emira First Edition 3.5 V6 Manual Seneca Blue
Audi History:
2020 SQ7 Floret Silver
2017 S5 Cab Mythos Black
2017 TTS Imola Yellow
2017 C7 RS6 Performance Nardo Grey
2015 C7 RS6 Porsche Riviera Blue
2015 SQ5 Sprint Blue - Gone, not quite special enough
2006 B7 RS4 Misano Red - panicked and sold big mistake
So much crap prior to this can't actually remember
2023 Lotus Emira First Edition 3.5 V6 Manual Seneca Blue
Audi History:
2020 SQ7 Floret Silver
2017 S5 Cab Mythos Black
2017 TTS Imola Yellow
2017 C7 RS6 Performance Nardo Grey
2015 C7 RS6 Porsche Riviera Blue
2015 SQ5 Sprint Blue - Gone, not quite special enough
2006 B7 RS4 Misano Red - panicked and sold big mistake
So much crap prior to this can't actually remember
Re: Tow Bar
I tried to remove the middle section and gave up. Any tips on the twist nuts.
Re: Tow Bar
The nuts are a quarter-turn-to-release and then (from memory) they drop down a little, or - at least - feel slightly looser than when you started.
After that, starting at the underneath of the car, you wrestle with the flimsy piece of plastic as if you sole intention were to snap it off and break it into little pieces. After a minute or so of this, the thing usually drops off in your hands. Once it's off, inspect it for a few seconds, marvel at the apparent fact that it hasn't broken, and then pop it in the garage.
Fitting is the reversal of removal - same stressful wrestling and sounds of plastic being tortured.
After that, starting at the underneath of the car, you wrestle with the flimsy piece of plastic as if you sole intention were to snap it off and break it into little pieces. After a minute or so of this, the thing usually drops off in your hands. Once it's off, inspect it for a few seconds, marvel at the apparent fact that it hasn't broken, and then pop it in the garage.
Fitting is the reversal of removal - same stressful wrestling and sounds of plastic being tortured.
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