Remco ???

Changing vehicles for towing is not a cheap thing to do either. Paying for base plates and installation charges, maybe some wiring etc. can add up pretty quick. Also some additional switches for battery and/or braking systems is often necessary. Of course if you can handle some of the work yourself, that is a big savings, but not everyone is capable of this.

It all boils down to what you want and what you can afford and suck up the costs.

Tripalot wrote:
Not everyone has $15,000 or whatever to invest in the purchase of another vehicle that is supposedly towable. A car you already own can often be made towable for a few thousand and serve the purpose very nicely.

Trialot,
I most certainly agree about not having the extra money to buy an "extra" vehicle that's just for towing. My thoughts are to look forward enough to make a decision on what kind of daily driver we'd like that, would ALSO be flat towable. That way, we end up with only ONE vehicle.

We've had, in the past, certain vehicles that we'd love to have kept (a really nice, 2WD Grand Cherokee Overland with the 5.7L Hemi) but, as stated, I'm not a fan of Remco pumps and, at the time, no one on this planet would touch a 5" ALUMINUM driveshaft to even think about making a disconnect for it.
And, knowing that we would be towing whatever vehicle we'd purchase, we said good by to the Grand and, picked up a brand new Honda CRV. What a change!!!!

What worked out for about a year. We then sold it and, picked up our present toad, an '11 GMC Sierra 1500 4x4 Extended Cab.
Scott

We started out towing using a 2002 RAV4 that we already owned and were very happy with. The $1800 it cost to set it up for towing at the time, including the Remco pump, was far less than it would have cost to trade it in on another car that we might not have liked as well. When we were ready to replace it in 2011, I found that all we needed was a different base plate to set up the new RAV4 Sport that we liked, so that's what we bought. The Remco pump has worked flawlessly on both toads for over 40,000 miles so far. The older RAV4 is still in faithful service, now serving as our extra car at our Adirondack vacation cottage, and has never had a pump related transmission issue.

Tripalot wrote:
Not everyone has $15,000 or whatever to invest in the purchase of another vehicle that is supposedly towable. A car you already own can often be made towable for a few thousand and serve the purpose very nicely.

Good point of course. We looked forward and the CRV tow bar and brake were enough $ for us w/o helping Remco's bottom line.

Not everyone has $15,000 or whatever to invest in the purchase of another vehicle that is supposedly towable. A car you already own can often be made towable for a few thousand and serve the purpose very nicely.

FIRE UP wrote:

Well Sir,
Many folks on here think Remco is the holy grail of towing. Well, I guess that's up to them. I do it the easy way. I just purchased toads that are flat towable, right from the factory. This is one of those things that, I simply don't trust an aftermarket pump, to keep a $3K-$5K transmission alive. I really don't care how many have had them for years, and had good luck and all that. To me, it's just easier to purchase a flat towable toad.

And, there's a zillion of them out there.
Scott

X2 Our first flat tow toad was a VW bug, no brake. Second one is the CRV with a brake.

CA Traveler wrote:
One another board it was suggested that Remco was out of business and some areas like drive shaft disconnects were picked up by other companies. What's the story?

I found the Remco website amusing in that the 12 recommended vehicles for towing all require a lube pump. :B Understandable of course as they didn't get any of my $ for my CRV.

Well Sir,
Many folks on here think Remco is the holy grail of towing. Well, I guess that's up to them. I do it the easy way. I just purchased toads that are flat towable, right from the factory. This is one of those things that, I simply don't trust an aftermarket pump, to keep a $3K-$5K transmission alive. I really don't care how many have had them for years, and had good luck and all that. To me, it's just easier to purchase a flat towable toad.

And, there's a zillion of them out there.
Scott

Remco is still very much alive, but sold off it's driveshaft disconnect system a couple of years ago to Superior Driveline. I believe it's still marketed as a Remco Disconnect but not sure.