I'm going to be pulling my '04 MC on a trailer in about two weeks and want to know where the tie-down points are. I took a quick look under the rear of the car last night and didn't see any obvious points, so I decided to ask here.

 

cant you just strap down the wheels? are you pulling a full chassis trailer or two wheel?

 

I'm not sure what you mean by "full chassis trailer," but it's a trailer where all four wheels will be on it, not one of the little U-Haul style ones that you drive two wheels on. I hadn't thought of putting the straps through the wheels - I guess it's a little obvious that I haven't done this before, huh?

 

I strap mine down with straps that wrap around the tires. I mounted special plates on the floor that the straps attach to, the tie downs lock into the plates and then I ratchet them tight after I pull the car into the trailer.

 

While heading accross I-4 in Florida yesterday, I seen a Mini being towed behind a rather large motorhome. It was atached to the rear of the Mini like a hydraulic wrecker lift. Rear wheels off the ground and the front wheels spinning away. It seems to me they should have had the front wheels lifted and the rear wheels trailing along. Since I couldn't find any referance to this being good or bad, I thought I'd bring it up. A short trip to the dealer might not hurt with the front wheels turning, but this looked to be a long trip the Mini was taking. Is it really safe for the drive train to be spinning in nuetral for hundreds of miles?

 

VERY good question....I would have thought the same thing....

 

Guess it was none of your business so you could not say anything, but that sounds wrong to me too.

Maybe they did not know the MINI was FWD and hitched it up assuming it was a RWD.

I don't know the specifics either, but what if the MINI was an automatic

If it was a manual then I guess that's not mechanically fatal, but who wants to wear the tranny down. Manual seems to imply there is no problem with how he is doing it, if it's a manual.

But I don't know the mechanics at all, so others can chime in.