Trs tow strap, quick how to...

[t32er]

rite then, a fair few have posted about the fitment of the trs strap to the leon, how to fit, where to fix it, what to use to make a bracket...

the few of you who have done it propperly (in that i mean so it can be used) have explained, i have followed this up by doing it...

so...

tools - hacksaw, drill, grips, spanner to fit the nut, a 6.8mm bit and matching tap to fit a M8 bolt
material - 8M bolt, washer and spring washer (a must have so it wont work its way off!!)

first up get a spare screw in towing eye (or use yours if you wanted)

cut the the towing eye more or less in half, iv only cut the loop off mine and its a little long really

take a drill to the middle, drill and then tap the thread

get a bolt to fit the thread, a washer and also a spring washer to save it shaking about and falling off, you can use lock tight or somthing if you wish.

put it all together make sure it all fits etc BUT dont do the nut up all the way as you will need to put the towing eye on the car first using a set of grips make sure its nice and tight THEN keeping it in the grips do the nut up for the strap, again nice and tight, remember the towing eye has a backwards thred so doing the nut up without having the grips on the "bracket" will prob undo the thread and you will be playing a silly game of push me pull you lol

next job to do is the bumper grill, simply cut a little bit away for the strap to poke through

job done, sit back and enjoy as now your car is poking its toung out at all the passers by lol

CAN I ASK IF YOU HAVE FITTED THE STRAP TO A NON LCR BUMPR PLZ PLZ PLZ SEND ME A PIC, I WOULD LIKE PICS OF ALL 3 BUMPERS WITH THE STRAP FITTED ON THIS TOP THREAD!!!

 

[Pyro]

nice guide Terry I'll be doing mine soon

 

[MarkWales]

any pics of this on non R bumpers please

 

[Ronin225]

Have you checked the UTS of your bolt? 8.8? Or did you go for a high tensile 12.9?
Just remember the weight this thing will be loaded with when used

 

[t32er]

Have you checked the UTS of your bolt? 8.8? Or did you go for a high tensile 12.9?
Just remember the weight this thing will be loaded with when used

a good point made Ron!!!
my bro in law got it for me from work, they use them to bolt huge 4 ton + machines upsidedown to the struts above them, should be ok to pull the car on
not some thing i even thought of adding when doing the guid!!!

!!!make sure you get a fooking good bolt!!!

 

[seanaldo1987]

i've just ordered a black one of these last week

nice guide there

i have the whole materials store in my work at my disposal should manage to chuck something together lol

 

[Ronin225]

Cant remember the UTS of bolts from my college days but just something to think about
Some high tensile bolts take ridiculous load. Could hang that 4 ton M/C off 1 bolt

 

[seanaldo1987]

8mm bit, 8mm tap

sorry to be a smart arse but the tapping drill size for an M8 tap is smaller than 8mm

sure its 6.8mm or something close to that (only reason i know it off the top of my head is i was drilling & tapping M8 holes at work today lol)

 

[Pyro]

Cant remember the UTS of bolts from my college days but just something to think about
Some high tensile bolts take ridiculous load. Could hang that 4 ton M/C off 1 bolt

So long as is screwed into some fooking strong mettle or surely 4 ton would strip the threads out the hole lol

 

[Ronin225]

Just for reference 6.8mm is drill size for M8
Pyro i think you under estimate the strength of threads, but your not exactly going to try hanging stuff off sheet ally
Also in the above guide a spring washer or loctite is heavily recommended as it will vibrate loose otherwise

 

[seanaldo1987]

Just for reference 6.8mm is drill size for M8
Pyro i think you under estimate the strength of threads, but your not exactly going to try hanging stuff off sheet ally
Also in the above guide a spring washer or loctite is heavily recommended as it will vibrate loose otherwise

i was right then about the tapping drill size
i'll defo be using a spring washer and/or loctite threadlocker

 

[Ronin225]

Nothing like an apprenticeship to turn you into a waking zeus book
End up knowing spanner/ allen key and tapping drill sizes, etc but VAG cars dont always follow this, M10 bolt is 17mm spanner but sometimes heads are 16/18mm, strange

 

[t32er]

top post edited just for the nerds amongst us lol
id rather it be rite than have ppl balls it up and blame me...

 

[t32er]

Cant remember the UTS of bolts from my college days but just something to think about
Some high tensile bolts take ridiculous load. Could hang that 4 ton M/C off 1 bolt

yea 1 bolt, hold the whole lot...
nahh a fair few of them would be used but he said they are the strongest bolts they had at work that will fit any ways i hope not to have to use it ever...

 

[Pyro]

Just for reference 6.8mm is drill size for M8
Pyro i think you under estimate the strength of threads, but your not exactly going to try hanging stuff off sheet ally
Also in the above guide a spring washer or loctite is heavily recommended as it will vibrate loose otherwise

Hehe I know there strong I bloody hope no one would try botl 4 tons up with one bolt just incase lol

 

[SalSheikh]

fitted my Cupra R bumper today and also fitted the tow strap

its for show purposes only.

 

[MarkWales]

still no one with a non r

 

[cupra-barn]

I want to see one on a non r too. Ive got one coming

 

[Jackie]

good work

 

[shaun.]

this is how i made mine exept i used a m12 bolt