Tow bar cost

[Dave Beattie 63]

I have been quoted £1,500 from a VW dealer, seems very expensive! but my cali is only two years old and worried about warranty issues if I go for a none genuine tow bar, anyone else had one fitted recently?

 

[WelshGas]

I have been quoted £1,500 from a VW dealer, seems very expensive! but my cali is only two years old and worried about warranty issues if I go for a none genuine tow bar, anyone else had one fitted recently?

I very much doubt if the VW Dealer will be fitting it. They will pass it on to a local Towbar company.

 

[Ch1pbutty]

I have been quoted £1,500 from a VW dealer, seems very expensive! but my cali is only two years old and worried about warranty issues if I go for a none genuine tow bar, anyone else had one fitted recently?

Get one supplied & fitted by PJ Jones. They will run dedicated electrics, so easily disconnected if VW try to pull the ‘this has invalidated your warranty card’

 

[WelshGas]

I have been quoted £1,500 from a VW dealer, seems very expensive! but my cali is only two years old and worried about warranty issues if I go for a none genuine tow bar, anyone else had one fitted recently?

Another alternative supplier, often used by VW Dealerships

Westfalia Detachable Tow Bar - Audi/Vw/Seat/Skoda with Genuine Electrics - Supply & Fit

We are pleased to offer the Genuine Vw / Audi Approved Westfalia Detachable Tow Bars. We can offer this service for all models that have this option

www.hazzydayz.com

 

[Mehdime]

Has one fitted by VW recently but didn’t pay for it as it was part of a goodwill gesture for something they messed up. But can confirm what was said above: they don’t do it themselves. They outsource to a third-party shop. So you might as well skip the middle-man.

Only reason you might want to go VW I guess is if you had the factory-fitted towbar prep option where all the wiring for the towbar was pre-installed. A third-party shop may not be able to use that - I don’t know.

(In my case, it was a 2-year old T6.1 Ocean with the towbar prep option already fitted. Still outsourced to a third-party - don’t know which one though)

 

[Velma's Dad]

The third party shops tend to put in their own electrics rather than use VWs, I believe. But there's no reason it should invalidate warranty.

Don't forget to inform your insurer once you have towbar fitted. They tend to consider it a material modification and whether or not they can rely on that fact to decline a claim, it saves hassle just to tell them.

 

[Ch1pbutty]

Third party will install their own loom, then they can guarantee all parts.