How to access the towing eye

[Yorkie]

we have just returned from a wonderful trip around Pembrokeshire's coast. As we camped on caravan and camping club farm sites we were shocked how expensive they were compared to our commercial stays. £25 farm: £16 commercial.

One field was still farmland and even with snow and mud tyres we got stuck. The farm tractor arrived but I couldn't work out how to get my spot lamp cover off to put in the towing eye so had to be pulled out backwards.

Any tips?

 

[ArunAlec]

https://vwcaliforniaclub.com/threads/failing-at-removing-front-fog-cover.13581/

I struggled with this one, not helped by the handbook being wrong!
Have a look at the link above .

 

[Hotel California]

@Yorkie
Search search search....
I did not make that movie just for fun ,
it's there to help people!

https://vwcaliforniaclub.com/thread...owing-hitch-in-frontbumper.14005/#post-146815

 

[Gary&Heather]

Chillout mate I have used the search engine on some occasions and come up with nothing.

 

[Hotel California]

Chillout mate I have used the search engine on some occasions and come up with nothing.

I know some want everything on a silver plate , but unfortunate things are not always that way.
Glad i could help anyway "mate"

 

[Yorkie]

@Yorkie
Search search search....
I did not make that movie just for fun ,
it's there to help people!

https://vwcaliforniaclub.com/thread...owing-hitch-in-frontbumper.14005/#post-146815

Looking for my silver plate but could only find this cover. Do you think there is a button on this one too as I can't find it? Ps. I know it's on the other side.

 

[Hotel California]

Seems yours has a diffrent bumper ,
It must be on the RHside imo , next to the foglight

 

[MKRW]

I had a similar issue 2 weeks ago, thankfully the towing Land Rover driver had just pulled out another T5 otherwise I would have been stumped as I did not have the manual with me.....

I knew it was going to. Be a problem parking as the car park/field marshals had every one reverse back and accelerate into the field!

 

[calikev]

It looks like you have a sport line front spoiler
If it is a genuine one the black section comes out it just clips in but you will need a towing eye extention if you haven't got one as the spoiler sticks out more than the original. Some aftermarket sport line spoilers are in one piece like mine was. The black grill bits were fixed I drilled a hole in line with the towing eye thread in the bumper and put a black rubber bung in if I needed a tow I just removed the bung.

 

[Yorkie]

It looks like you have a sport line front spoiler
If it is a genuine one the black section comes out it just clips in but you will need a towing eye extention if you haven't got one as the spoiler sticks out more than the original. Some aftermarket sport line spoilers are in one piece like mine was. The black grill bits were fixed I drilled a hole in line with the towing eye thread in the bumper and put a black rubber bung in if I needed a tow I just removed the bung.

The chap I bought it from insisted he had only fitted the bottom splitter not the whole bumper so I thought it was original kit, perhaps not.

If you drilled yours was it through the fins? A bung would be difficult if so

 

[calikev]

I got the fitter to mark where the towing eye
Was before fitting if I remember the hole was in between the fins I used a rubber grommet
Then just glossed it black.

 

[Yorkie]

An old thread on this same topic talked about getting a trim removal tool. A couple of weeks ago I asked what some random items in my Cali were. No one knows what the blue items are but ...... as one of them says LH could it be to remove the spotlight cover?