You! I wanna take you to a towbar!

I wanted to get a towbar, trailering for the purposes of. I ended up going to Towbar Express, or rather they ended up coming to me, since they do it on your driveway. It took about 2-3 hours, and cost about £700, for the 13-pin connector, and a detachable "swan neck" type.

Pic: the detatched towbar itself. Quite heavy. It comes with keys for locking it once in place. The "green" indicator is "locked in place" I think; it twists, to insert or remove.

Not easily seen from that pic: the plastic cover under the bumper needs a hole cut for the towbar to peek out of. Here is the bloke cutting said hole, having taken off the plastic to work on it. Distant view. Here's a pic with the bar removed, note plastic dirt-protector in the socket.

All this went without problem, and towing to Norwich was fine. Trivia: the car complained a couple of times that "ACC" was unavailable... I think this was it struggling a bit on cruise control up some of the hills.

Note that I ended up with a six foot length of metal that used to be where the towbar is. I'm keeping it for a year or two, then will probably throw it away, since I don't ever expect to remove the towbar fitting. If you knew you didn't want it, you'd probably have to pre-warn them to take it away, I don't suppose they want it either.