trailer to take corsa

[barryt128]

hi there any one have any ideas on how to build one probably from a caravan chassis thanks

 

[oz.]

It's best if you can get 2 axles on there - helps on the stability side of things. Most of the homemade ones I've seen used the Aframe and the axles from a caravan trailer but the rest was homemade.

There are regs. about trailer that I'm sure someones got the link for. Certain things you can/can't do

 

[barryt128]

no bother ill keep looking and asking about could it be easyer to buy one some one has allready made and repair it if it needed to be done

 

[Shox Dr]

ISTR Twin axle trailers have to have independent braking.

Personally if I was to build another trailer (my first was an ex caravan) I wouldn't bother. You'll spend more time modifying it. Get hold of a back axle out of a Berlingo and build one from there.

I used to work for a coach builders have have spent a fair bit of time under them modifying the rear axle assy. Very simple and easy to mod

 

[oz.]

Ah, i hadnt thought of that one. The berlingo axle being trailing arm with torsion beam? Based on the Pug 405 assembly iirc

 

[Shox Dr]

Yup any trailing arm setup will work. I just know how easy the Berlingo would be to work on. Must be loads in the scrapers these days

 

[oz.]

There are a few. Also, you can find stiffer torsion bars in some estate 405/Xantias. Go to a scrappy with your vernier calipers! Last time I did that I was given a proper dodgy look from the scrap man

 

[Shox Dr]

It's easy to adjust the tension on the torsion bars. It was one of the jobs I did. As you say loads of different cars have them. So you are not limited to Bingo's lol

 

[oz.]

How do you adjust the tension? I know the height adjustment etc, I'm about to rebuild a rear beam on my car. But for uprated torsion bars youre looking for £3/400 each, and you need a pair!

 

[Shox Dr]

Height Adjustment, Is one and the same, a cheat really, as it doesn't alter the rate much

 

[barryt128]

it aw sounds complicated lol

 

[SC_BK]

How heavy is a corsa? Dunno if you'd be able to find a single axle caravan capable of taking the weight

 

[barryt128]

because its a stock car it wont be as heavy it will be less than a ton id think

 

[oz.]

A properly stripped out pug 205 with a cage is 740kg. With only a bit of strippage 850-900kg.

Lightweight trailers usually around 500-750kg (twinaxle)

 

[Endacy]

I got a caravan axle to build a boat trailer. Single Al-Ko axle, it's limit is 1500kg, so they do go quite large.

 

[_JH_]

forget the berlingo axle, building trailers with car/van brakes is illegal.

I carried an autograss Nova - I'd imagine similar weights - on a 1300kg alko caravan chassis and it was the smoothest trailer I've towed.

They're stronger than people give them credit for, and an alko chassis is a trailer chassis, purchased by the caravan builder to put their body on. Providing you meet the lighting/mud guards/tyres etc regs, then all you are doing is modifying an existing trailer.

 

[English Steve]

As mentioned above, forget the car / van axle option unless you will be under a gross trailer weight of 750kg. Above that (up to ~3500kg) you need overrun brakes. A decent caravan chassis is a reasonable place to start from, but unless you can find one cheap the finished trailer may well cost as much as buying a purpose-built job secondhand.

 

[peterd51]

Hi,

is it still illegal if you construct over-run brakes?

That shouldn't be too hard, surely?

Regards
Peter

 

[English Steve]

Hi Peter,
The problem is getting the overrun brakes to be auto-reverse - that requires special gubbins in the brake drum which a car or van doesn't have.
Older trailers didn't need to have that facility of course

 

[Shox Dr]

forget the berlingo axle, building trailers with car/van brakes is illegal.

My sig strikes again. Any links to more info