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Owenfackrell 
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 Topic: laser transport costsPosted: 22 Mar 13 at 4:03pm |
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To add that if you are using toll roads and/or ferries then the trailer adds to the cost.
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jeffers
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Posted: 12 Mar 13 at 11:25am |
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Just take the boat to work.... ;)
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Mark Antony
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Posted: 12 Mar 13 at 10:39am |
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[Just done a quick sum. At those fuel consumptions (48 and 53mpg), you need to cover 42,854 miles to get payback on £600 worth of trailer (assuming fuel is £1.45 a litre).] That's 13 years of towing down to the south coast six times a year! There are other, non-cost factors, both plus and minus in play. Pitching up at a Travelodge at 11.00pm on the Friday night and trying to find a two car place sometimes isn't easy; yet the ability to push the trailer to the side of the house after getting back late on Sunday night is a great advantage over the need to be untying and lifting the boat off the roof ahead of the Monday return to work. |
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Posted: 12 Mar 13 at 9:19am |
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I have found trailing to hardly affect the consumption of my diesel Passat at all, but if you are starting from scratch you'd need to do a lot of miles to make the trailer, hitch and lighting board pay for a Laser.
Just done a quick sum. At those fuel consumptions (48 and 53mpg), you need to cover 42,854 miles to get payback on £600 worth of trailer (assuming fuel is £1.45 a litre). |
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jeffers
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Posted: 12 Mar 13 at 8:02am |
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I towed a Scorpion from East Anglia to Wales and found it had very little effect on the fuel mileage I got. The same the following year in a different car (1.4 petrol as opposed to 2.0 diesel) when I towed it to Dorset.
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Mark Antony
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Posted: 11 Mar 13 at 5:14pm |
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By way of an update on this, I've recently completed two 270+ miles journeys with the laser: one on a trailer, the other on the roof.
trailer: 53 mpg roof: 48 mpg Readouts from trip computer on 2.0 TDI VW. Not exactly under controlled conditions, and the VW readouts always tend towards the generous side, but they do provide relative values. |
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Mark Antony
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Posted: 30 Sep 12 at 9:38pm |
That's seems quite a killer argument. It looks like the trailer wins on cost. |
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Graham T
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Posted: 30 Sep 12 at 6:40pm |
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A couple of weeks ago I trailed one of the club 5m patrol RIB's via a mixture of A roads and country roads up to the club and averaged 39 MPG. The next day I did the same route with a windsurfer on the roof and got 37 mpg. I was surprised at the difference considering the weight of the boat I was towing.
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Rupert
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Posted: 30 Sep 12 at 6:32pm |
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60mph for trailer where it is 70 for the roof rack, Jim!
You are right, though, the trailer is more economical. Even when maybe not quite sticking to the exact letter of the law... Not me, of course, just an aquaintance... |
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JimC
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Posted: 30 Sep 12 at 6:17pm |
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Difficult to call. There's the rolling resistance from the tyres as well. One thing for sure though, if you stick to the applicable speed limits (50mph for trailer, 70mph for roof rack) I bet the trailer is cheaper!
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