Car Trailers

For the first time, last Friday saw a brand new Nissan Qashqai and a new Saris BV75 trailer drive off the forecourt together. When Stephen was taking delivery of his new Nissan Qashqai from Carlow Nissan , he also purchased his new Saris Car Trailer and drove them off the Read more…

Stay legal with our FREE online trailer weight calculator. Use this simple , 2 step online calculator to determine what trailer you can legally tow with your vehicle & Licence combination. Enter details of your vehicle’s VIN plate and get an instant result. Know , with confidence what trailer DGVW Read more…

We are learning fast ! Over the past few weeks , we put up some information on our website , on our towing rules page: https://thecarlowyard.com/car-trailers-towing-rules/ and also wrote a couple of blogs on the specific cases of towing with a VW Caddy van and a Nissan Qasquai car . Read more…

We have managed to put a video together introducing the Saris Car Trailers and hope to get some more done over the next few weeks. We would like to create some more videos featuring each of the Saris trailer types in some more detail as well as some videos on Read more…

We’ve had a query from a 2019 Nissan Qashqai 1.5 L owner, asking if they can tow a trailer with qty 40 x 20Kg bags of coal and what trailer we would recommend for it. Towing Capacity From the vehicle’s plate (located on the car’s door pillar ) we can Read more…

So last week we had a pretty in-depth look at what we have to offer on 8 x 4 trailers and the next question I get is……What about 10 x 5 ? Lets have a look at this here. 10′ x 5′ Saris do a number of different 10 x Read more…

An “8′ x 4′ ” trailer is a very popular size as it can carry a full sheet of plywood or plasterboard etc and we are regularly asked about it. To help answer this question , we have compiled some information on the selection of ” 8 x 4 ” Read more…

There’s a lot of confusion out there as to what you can and cannot legally tow and its no wonder as it can be very confusing. Let’s throw some light on it and hopefully clear up some misconceptions. Hopefully we wont add to the confusion !! There are two distinct Read more…

Another new Saris trailer departs our yard. This is our DW 2000 trailer , which is an 8x 5 , 2000Kg. It has a double axle with full independent suspension, is fully braked and fitted with renowned Knott axles, brakes, hitch and Jockey wheel. As with all Saris trailers, it Read more…