Thread: Nissan X-Trail for towing boat

Originally Posted by MB

I know. Nearly every car in NZ has an unbraked trailer limit of 750kg. Nearly every boat you see on the road is being towed in contravention of these guidelines.

Cars in NZ run to the ADR rules which specifies unbraked towing of 750Kg. But, we run NZ trailer rules which allows unbraked trailers of more than 750Kg to get a WoF.

The two rules are completely out of step - but various interested groups got into the ear of NZTA and confused the issue as it would mean that there are a lot of trailers that would suddenly cease to be useful overnight and in some cases unable to be towed on the road at all as the unloaded weight of the trailer is more than 750Kg. As I understand it there has been a program of work looking at this and bringing the two specs into line with each other, but every time it looks like they will do something it all goes quiet.

With ADR being recognised in NZ (from the days when Aussie had car manufacturing and cross portability of AUS/NZ standards) it won't be the ADR rules that change I reckon!

NZ's trailer rules are completely stupid - like having a breakaway switch on heavy trailers but then allowing crossed safety chains to prevent it detaching so the breakaway switch is useless...

For the Nissan CVT - in a Tiida with no trailer they seem to work. A lot of ram raiders can't be wrong... But the basic design of the transmission is weird, the Nissan one seems to work opposite to how the mitsi one is designed and I can't really follow why they did that.