Attaching the Breakaway Cable............again!
I know that this is an old chestnut in terms of whether to wrap the cable around the towbar, or clip it to a fixing point (if there is one). But I'm not looking to debate that! I have a Monoflex Nordic (Westfalia) detachable towbar fitted to my Volvo S60.
It has a breakaway cable attachment point on the electrics bracket and it's clear that if the cable ever had to do its job, the bracket would bend and the 13 pin socket would be broken. Okay, so that's a small price to pay for saving the van....hopefully.
But I've decided to change the bracket for a flip-up version, which has the same attachment point for the breakaway cable but (a) would be much easier to use and (b) might not wreck the socket so easily. But I'm now wondering whether to remove a washer from
the bracket fixing bolt (there would still be a split washer) and add a much more robust cable attachment bracket. At 5mm thick this bracket would be about twice the thickness of the washer that it replaces, but would, I think, provide a much improved anchorage.
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Or would this be a mistake?