Can Someone Post a Picture of These Front Tow Hooks Installed.
 

Can someone please post a picture or direct me to a link where I can see how these front tow hooks are mounted. Thanks for your time.

SmileWavy

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1307245638.jpg

As shown in Pelican Parts tow hook section.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1307246375.jpg

Thank you very much, I should have checked there first. Can these be installed while the car is on the ground?

Best Regards,
Alex

yes, but its a little tricky if you have a lip spoiler as you dont have much access and youll have to wedge a prybar in between the a arm and the body.

there are several threads on towing you might want to read first before going this route.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1307247447.jpg

geez, was that car dragged around by those hooks? They are made more for trailer tie down, or to hook a winch up to and pull it on a trailer, not so much to be pulled down the street by them..

what he said ...... those are tie down points not tow hooks

Using those for towing will likely bend the front valence or destroy the rubber air dam if you have one.

That damage does no look like it is from towing, it looks more like the car bottomed out at speed. That took some force.

In the photo it looks as though the metal had been weakened by rust as well.

I don't recall the thread that the photo of the broken tie down hook first appeared in, but as I remember the story the damage happened in "normal" use, except for the issue of unseen rust. I think I also remember that serious body work was done to correct that rust.

Then again, I could be wrong, because what I think I remember doesn't explain the break in the hook itself.

Anyway, I need new tie down hooks, because the original ones are ground down to nothing and broken.

Are those Rennline hooks the best out there?

Check at a salvage site and find some good used ones. Then you will be "original"

I put a set of those on in the event I ever needed a winch up onto a deck. And I thought the extra bit of protection from hard things like drive way curbs and the like would be good. However, there was something I read here a while back that has me thinking I'll replace the original hooks. Jeff Alton was talking about how a set of those caused some big issues after hitting something hard at high speed. With the original hooks, the problem would have likely not been so. Probably best to talk to him or do a search here for more info, though.

If your car is at euro height or lower, you will not like how many times they hit. I modified mine by heating them up and then bending them 45 degrees. Much better.

Thank you everyone, I should have been more clear. My intention is to use them as tie downs, I hope this is still within the scope of these units. Best Regards.

Who is the supplier of those tie downs you intend to use? They are shaped differently from the Rennline version, but are obviously similar.