Towing Fiesta - No brakes? IDK!?
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I think it unlikely on an auto manufactured in the last 30 years...
I think it's theoretically possible with a torque converter auto (though not very kind to it!) but not one of the automated manual transmissions like VW's "DSG" auto boxes, as the latter will need power to the clutches to make them engage.
It was longer ago than that that I heard the idea....
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It used to be that you couldn’t tow an auto at any great speed or distance unless the box had a prop driven oil pump. I wouldn’t like to tow an auto at 50mph anyway.
I think it's the torque converter that takes the most punishment when you tow a traditional auto? The driving wheels are turning one half of it, but the engine is holding the other half stationary, so it cooks the transmission fluid?
Advice was, that the driven wheels had to be lifted off the road, and placed on a towing dolly.
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Sounds like a scene from Mission Impossible!
Was certainly possible back in the 'sixties, push-starting the car with another vehicle was the safest/preferred method.
Only if the damage done, was of absolutely no consequence, to either owner.
Old mattress, bit of rope....
Oh, of course - everyone carries a spare old mattress around, just in case...
The bit of rope, I do always carry.
No need, in those days bumpers were up to the task
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That's no way to talk about your mother-in-law! Lol
No need, in those days bumpers were up to the task
On a LR perhaps, but generally - car bumpers were all different heights, so limited chances for bumpers to meet, often, when they did, they would tangle.
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