Flat towing advice

That's too bad that you just returned from Lakeland. We could have shown you our Mini!!! It is also too bad that your son-in-law's Mini is an automatic. To the best of my knowledge, they are not towable four down. You would have to tow it with a tow dolly.

Ed Headington

Ed, we just returned from Lakeland, rented an RV for Sun N Fun. That's what got us started shopping for a class A. Does your Mini have the standard or auto? Our Son in Law's Mini is an auto.

If you check with Mini you will see that they don't recommend towing it 4 wheels down. However if it has the manual transmission, there doesn't seem to be a problem I suspect they just never tested it. A number of people are towing them including myself, and Blue Ox makes baseplates for the Mini. We are towing the Mini Roadster, and have a little less than 1000 miles of towing on it with no problems whatsoever. I have talked with others who have towed them for many more miles than us and they have experienced no problems either.

Ed Headington

Yeah, what I thought. Shouldn't / can't flat tow. I didn't really want to pile miles on my wife's ML six feet behind a potential sand blaster. I guess the smart choice is to pick up a task specific vehicle for a toad. Hmmmm, our son in law may be selling his Mini convertible. thanks for the replies.

A trailer may be your only option. As others have mentioned read your manual. If you are lucky you may be by with a dolley.

Gotta be careful about AWD vehicles. Some can't be towed 4 down at all.

rr2254545 wrote:

nevadanick wrote:
We have had a couple Ml's, a couple GL's and currently have a GLC and none of them could be flat towed or dollied. All of them being 4Matic.

Yep in all my travels never seen a MB being towed - a few BMW's but darn few

and you can't rely on just seeing something being towed. they could have a tranny pump, drive shaft disconnect, etc. making it possible.
bumpy

nevadanick wrote:
We have had a couple Ml's, a couple GL's and currently have a GLC and none of them could be flat towed or dollied. All of them being 4Matic.

Yep in all my travels never seen a MB being towed - a few BMW's but darn few

We have had a couple Ml's, a couple GL's and currently have a GLC and none of them could be flat towed or dollied. All of them being 4Matic.

read the owners manual as stated above, also if uncertain ask the dealers service department. go to blue ox's website and see if the have the baseplate and any other equipment available for you specific year and model car.