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cratchet50

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Posted: 12/29/09 05:26pm

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I am looking for some ideas or best of all solutions to safely use my Stehl Car Dolly on a 2008 Pontiac Vibe. Seems easy, but I need to prevent the scraping of the underside of the front bumper on both the front side of the car dolly tow bed and the rear or back side when I remove the car from the dolly.

The car catches terribly the front side, about tearing the plastic (somewhat flimsy compact car's front bumper off) prior to snapping over it, scratching it quite a bit, proceeding, then it scrapes again as the front bumper passes over the rear elevated edge of the dolly car bed on the way down the tire ramps.

Is there something out there or a way to remedy and still safely tow?

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cratchet50@aol.com

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Posted: 12/29/09 05:46pm

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Moved to Dinghy Towing forum from Towing.

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Posted: 12/29/09 07:48pm

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Try placing a couple 2 X 6 boards under the point where the ramps contact the ground to reduce the angle of the ramps. Leave about 12"'s of ramp exposed for tires to exit ramp.

wny_pat

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Posted: 12/29/09 08:05pm

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icechip wrote:

Try placing a couple 2 X 6 boards under the point where the ramps contact the ground to reduce the angle of the ramps. Leave about 12"'s of ramp exposed for tires to exit ramp.

Thats it, in other words, it makes the ramp longer giving you less of a climb up the ramp.

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