You really should have gone for the electric towbar, only a bit more expensive but so worth it! Arrived: MY16 A/B SDV6 in Aruba, Ivory interior, piano black trim, black panoramic roof, spare wheel, blind spot monitoring, mudlaps and more...

Gone but not forgotten:
2014 RRS2 SDV6 HSE in Loire Blue
2011 Freelander 2 SD4 HSE in Santorini Black

Hi Renaco - have thought about a small padlock , or even changing the pin to a bolt - but on a £64k car should I really being doing that .

Interestingly yesterday I was on the web and noticed the Land Rover bike rack is lockable - it seems they have worked out things get stolen so lets lock the bike rack to the tow bar - oooops

At time of ordering the electric tow bar was nearly £2k - £1300.00 extra to deploy a tow bar seemed a lot of money

Pretty shoddy design by LR.

Even without LR's help and the advantage of the easily removed pin a determined thief can easily undo the two ball hitch bolts !!!

When parked I use a Motorcycle cable lock around the attached item (bike rack, trailer etc) through car's towing eye.

Is there a towing eye where you can loop a plastic coated bike lock through it and round the bike carrier? That's what I do with my MY10. Also have a long one running through the bike frames when parked up. Just keeps an honest man out really!

Cheers
Dave MY10 TDV6 SE (debadged ), Santorini Black, Flappy paddles, Privacy Glass, 20" Stormers, Mudflaps!

Gone: a comprehensive list of imprezas and a Merc ML AMG

Renaco wrote:

les2802 wrote:

Hi Photo as taken at about the same angle as the Land Rover brochure. You will notice the silver 'ring'. this is the pull tab for the 'lock' . Pull this and then pull the big locating pin from the other side.

Using two hands I am now down to less than 5 seconds !!

Change the quick release clip and use a small padlock.

Wonder how much does that cost on top of the extortionate price paid to LR for a product that does not lock  Wanted a Series 2 LR since childhood but previously owned MY16 Disco Sport HSE TD4 Auto, MY13 RR Sport Black Edition TDV6 Auto, MY10 RR Sport HSE TDV6 Auto, 2007 Freelander 1 Freestyle TD4 Soft Top, 2009 Freelander 2 GS TD4 Auto, 2007 Freelander 2 GS TD4, 2004 Disco 2 Metropolis Auto, 2002 Disco 2 GS, 2000 Freelander 1 SE TD4 SW

Still hoping for a S2 one day!

Here in Australia this is how all our towing systems are. A tongue that fits into the subframe with a pin. The deployable system is not available here. You can definitely get a lockable pin, plenty on eBay. Just Google "Locking pin for tow ball tongue"

Jools. RRS P460e
1983 2 door Range Rover ARB Bar X9000 winch ARB Rear Bar now semi retired.
Many big trips done in this one.
1982 Rangerover nearly restored.
22 Defender D250 with lots of stuff for outback touring
Nice 2013 Freelander TD4 manual (for daughter to learn on) with much better stereo compared with previous SD4 SE with Meridian which sounded bad!
2013 Land Rover Defender ute.

I will search for the locking pin, but as a temporary measure I have now drilled the pin and fitted my own padlock.
Not happy that I have had to do what LR should have done

Just looking at the height adjustable tow hook and can see your point however here it is illegal to have one deployed unless it's actually in use, yes each time you need to remove it. The previous version on the D3/4/RRS was great for that and it had a small integrated lock on it.....