Can we tow with the buggy we already have on hire

Only if it is a towing-rated vehicle with the hitch fitted, which it will be if towing was in the booking. If the need arose mid-hire, call: a swap to a utility model is the clean fix.

What size trailer can a utility buggy pull

Small ones within the vehicle's stated rating; think garden and event scale, not plant trailers. The rating is on the specific model and we quote it plainly rather than in adjectives.

Can a buggy tow another broken-down buggy

Short recovery moves on flat ground with the run-tow procedure done correctly, yes, gently. Actual transport distances belong on a transporter, which is what we send.

Towing with a hired golf buggy

By James Brown · Updated 11 August 2026 · 5 minute read

White two seater electric golf buggy on a gravel path beside an ivy-covered garden wall

Some buggies tow and most should not: towing needs a vehicle fitted with a proper hitch and rated for the load, which on our fleet means the utility models, arranged at booking so the right machine arrives. Within its rating a utility buggy tows small trailers competently on reasonable ground; outside it, towing wrecks brakes and traction exactly the way physics predicts. Tell us the trailer and the ground and we will match the vehicle honestly.

Key takeaways

Towing is a booking-time conversation: it decides which vehicle you get.
Rated hitch, rated load, sound trailer: all three or none.
Wet grass and slopes shrink towing margins fast; plan routes accordingly.
Passenger models are not towing vehicles, whatever the tow-ball rumour says.

Which vehicles tow

Utility models are built for it: a chassis-mounted hitch, a drivetrain geared for load, and a rating that means something. Passenger buggies mostly are not, and an improvised ball on a bumper does not change that; it just relocates the failure to the first slope.

So the towing conversation belongs at booking: what the trailer is, what rides in it, over what ground. With that, the right vehicle arrives with the right hitch, and the job is ordinary. Without it, an unsuitable vehicle meets an unmovable trailer on the morning, which helps nobody.

Doing it properly on site

Within the rating, buggy towing is small-trailer common sense: load balanced and strapped, tongue weight sensible, the trailer's own condition worth a glance, tyres, bearings, the hitch's pin. Pull away gently, corner wide and slow, and brake earlier than feels necessary, because the trailer pushes exactly when you wish it would not.

Ground is the multiplier. Dry hardstanding forgives; wet grass halves your traction and downhill braking with a load is where ratings stop being paperwork. Our bad-weather and hilly-ground guides apply doubly with a trailer behind.

Working out what this costs for your own event? Tell us the venue and dates and you will have an itemised written quote within one working hour.

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When towing is the wrong answer

Some jobs read as towing but are really load-carrying: a utility bed swallows most event kit runs without the handling compromise a trailer brings. Others read as buggy work but are not, ground too steep, loads too heavy, distances too long, and want plant or a proper vehicle instead.

Our job at booking is that honesty: matching the machine to the task and saying plainly when the task outgrows the machine. Moving-equipment jobs at events, the commonest towing request, usually resolve to a utility model with a bed, which is the tidier tool.

Common questions

Can we tow with the buggy we already have on hire: Only if it is a towing-rated vehicle with the hitch fitted, which it will be if towing was in the booking. If the need arose mid-hire, call: a swap to a utility model is the clean fix.
What size trailer can a utility buggy pull: Small ones within the vehicle's stated rating; think garden and event scale, not plant trailers. The rating is on the specific model and we quote it plainly rather than in adjectives.
Can a buggy tow another broken-down buggy: Short recovery moves on flat ground with the run-tow procedure done correctly, yes, gently. Actual transport distances belong on a transporter, which is what we send.