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Westfalia Fixed Swan Towbar For Audi A6 Saloon 2016-2018 + 7 Pin Wiring Kit

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Westfalia Fixed Swan Towbar For Audi A6 Saloon 2016-2018 + 7 Pin Wiring KitINNOVATION AND TRADITION Westfalia Automotive is the European market leader and world's largest manufacturer of towbars, vehicle specific wiring kits and cycle carriers for cars and light service vehicles. INVENTORS OF THE TOWBAR As the inventor of the ball towbar and holder of global patents, Westfalia Automotive has been an innovator in its field since 1932. Today Westfalia Automotive offer over 1,700 different types of towbar, all of which are

INNOVATION AND TRADITION

Westfalia-Automotive is the European market leader and world's largest manufacturer of towbars, vehicle specific wiring kits and cycle carriers for cars and light service vehicles.

INVENTORS OF THE TOWBAR

As the inventor of the ball towbar and holder of global patents, Westfalia-Automotive has been an innovator in its field since 1932. Today Westfalia-Automotive offer over 1,700 different types of towbar, all of which are precision engineered to perfectly match each individual vehicle make and model.

Ongoing innovation combined with a focus on quality and safety backed up by excellent customer service are key ingredients in Westfalia-Automotive’s success.

PRODUCTS YOU CAN TRUST

For many years motorists, workshops, dealers, manufacturers and suppliers alike have placed their trust in Westfalia-Automotive products. The Westfalia-Automotive brand is widely regarded for its quality and innovation and it’s products offer the very best in terms of quality, safety, reliability and performance, giving you the reassurance and peace of mind that they can be used with complete confidence.

Not only do end users benefit from the very best quality and safety inherent in Westfalia-Automotive products, workshops and fitters appreciate parts that fit together easily.

AWARD WINNING
Westfalia-Automotive has been selected seven consecutive times as the ‘Best Brand’ in the Towbar category by the readers of ‘Auto Motor und Sport’ magazine. This outstanding quality is the result of highly dedicated and motivated employees and ongoing research and development.

 

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Fixed towbars
COST EFFECTIVE TOWBAR SYSTEM FOR REGULAR USE
The fixed towbar is the most affordable towbar system and is ideal for regular use. Westfalia-Automotive offer two different types of fixed towbar, the swan neck and flange.

SWAN NECK TOWBAR
The swan neck towbar is the most common type of towbar used across Europe. With the swan neck the tow ball and the neck form one piece of the towbar. This type of towbar is becoming more and more popular in the UK due to the appearance of the towbar looking neater and with it having a slimmer profile to the flange towbar it is less likely to trigger parking sensors.

If you want to tow and attach a cycle carrier at the same time, the swan neck towbar will not be for you. Be careful though, you must add together the weight of the bikes and the nose weight of the trailer, the two added together should not exceed the maximum nose weight stated by the vehicle manufacturer.

The swan neck towbar can also be used with an ALKO or BPW stabiliser without the need for modification. An additional towball will have to be purchased that is ALKO compatible if you are fitting a flange towball. If you are using a stabiliser with built in friction pads it is essential that all paint and grease is removed from the towball prior to use.

F10 - Welded model
F20 - Bolted model

THE BENEFITS OF A FIXED TOWBAR FROM WESTFALIA-AUTOMOTIVE
Uncomplicated: The Westfalia-Automotive towbar is known for its quick and precise mounting performance
Always ready: Because it is mounted permanently, the fixed towbar is ideal for constant use
The original: Westfalia-Automotive invented the towbar. When you buy a towbar from Westfalia-Automotive, you know you'll get OEM quality

TOWBAR WITH WELDED (F10) OR BOLTED (F20) TOW BALL NECK


For some people, having a towbar on their vehicle isn't just helpful, it's a necessity. For these users, a fixed towbar is the right choice. The mechanism is available with a welded (F10) or bolted (F20) tow ball neck and is available for almost all standard automotive brands and vehicle types.

SIMPLE TO USE
The fixed towbar is always attached to the vehicle, so you can tow at any time. It's quick and easy to use, and ensures maximum convenience. Hooking up the trailer's electrical systems is also quick and easy as Westfalia-Automotive's wiring kits are designed for a precise and secure electrical connection between vehicle and trailer or caravan.


COMPANY PROFILE
ECS Electronics is an established international company specialised in development, manufacturing, validation and marketing of premium quality electronic connection systems for the automotive industry.

Our product portfolio includes solutions for automotive accessories, vehicle telematics and test & diagnostic equipment. In addition, by maintaining a flexible automotive manufacturing base and our own in-house Research & Development and Electronics departments, we are able to deliver customised solutions.

With over 30 years of continued improvement, we are the number one supplier of vehicle specific towbar connection systems in the European market.

From our production plants in The Netherlands, Vietnam and Poland we provide cutting-edge products to more than 20 of the biggest automotive original equipment and aftermarket brands around the world.

ECS Electronics is committed to quality and strives for the best environmental practice: we are certified to ISO/TS 16949 and ISO 14001.

Disclaimer: All towbars and electrics or accessories for bundle offers are sent separately!

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Kiwi Cove
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A Must for contemporary military and civilian leaders in national security
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This is a very very useful work for members of the contemporary national security strategy community. While Hew's reputation as a historian is very high, it is his thoughtful and insightful comments that he makes in the latter chapters that lay out some of the critical challenges facing contemporary military and civilian leaders.
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Terry Tucker
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Astoundingly Good
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This is a must have book. It is, beyond a doubt, the best book I have read on military strategy. The author is clear, provides case examples, and more importantly makes this "readable." I retired with 24 years on active duty and spent 15 more working in PMC's working in austere and conflict environments. THIS book is long overdue.
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Rachel Gollub
San Leandro, US
★★★★★ 5
Thoughtful and deeply insightful
Format: Kindle
Browse not only goes over the current state of the US military in detail, but also ends with concrete and manageable suggestions to fix the major problems. Really good book.
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Thomas M. Magee
Pawtucket, US
★★★★★ 5
Eye Opening, Thought Provoking and Scary
Format: Hardcover
This book will grab your attention, keep you spell bound and scare the heck out of you. The author was the Chief of Staff under Senator McCain for the Senate Armed Services Committee. This book is about new technology in the defense field and our inability to deal with it. The new technology comes in many forms. There now are missiles that fly 2 or 3 times faster than what is available now. The missiles can reach out many many thousands of miles more, enough to hit America from the other side of the world. Now computers are recently coming out on the market which are smaller and 2 or 3 times faster than previous computers. All of that combines to radically speed up the decision time for war operations. The author calls it the kill chain. The change doesn't stop there. The tactics used by our competitors has radically changed warfare. The examples the author uses comes from Russia. He reviews their invasion of "Little Green Men" in the Ukraine turned warfare upside down. They infiltrated troops into the land. Then they merged with dissent forces already in the country. Then the war stars, but on a small scale. Before you know it Russia grabbed Crimea and neutralized a huge slice of the Ukraine. That was the first time since WWII where borders changed. The last part of the book is the most scary. He relies on his experience in Congress. He cites several examples to show where the bureaucracy is incapable of change. The pressures of on going operations, turf wars, political desires to protect home based companies all have immobilized the bureaucracy. He also cites the case of the Army trying to get a new side arm. It took 17 million to test an off the shelf pistol. The case showed how fear of risk has layered on level after level of control and check. Those levels of course adds costs. That was just one weapons program. Can you imagine what the cost is as you expand that out to really big ticket things like carriers. It leads to the Pentagon to continue buying weapons it doesn't need and use tactics which really come out of WWII. As the Pentagon games go on the world's armies change. I think his point about the bureaucracy caught in a never ending loop also might explain other troubles across the globe. That leads to the scary part. Is the country ready for the future? Will it defend the nation for the future? If it isn't 9/11 might be a match strike in comparison.
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Steve Dietrich
Battle Creek, US
★★★★★ 4
Eyes Wide Open (with a few omissions)
Format: Audiobook
Thought provoking and great insights but with a few material omissions. As others have noted this is an extremely thought provoking book. Perhaps the most disturbing is the discussion of war gaming a war with China and in most every Chinese initiated war China wins. A close runner-up was the lack of widespread commitment of other senate members to be as fully informed as possible on the military side of military affairs including budgets for specific projects. It's hard to document the claim that two issues were serious omissions but I think there were. There are seemingly minor details that are important Robert McNamara worked for Ford not GM. This is important for decisions at Ford by McNamara's accolates took Ford down to one of its smallest market share of the postwar years. McNamara gave Ford the Falcon , his successors brought out the Mustang. His arrogance cost billions and thousands of lives. McCain recognized the political folly of the initial "leased" Boeing Replacement Tanker Program but that is not discussed. Neither is the continuing debacle of the program, felony convictions/pleas of top Boeing execs and the Pentagon's civilian chief of procurement all associated with the ill-fated tanker program. Declared a near emergency need at the turn of the century, twenty later the tankers can not perform the mission and tens of billions over budget. To put the Tanker Program debacle in perspective, In July 1962 the US achieved its first orbital space flight and its first Moon landing 7 years later. In contrast the replacement tanker program has been in process Boeing was awarded the contract in 2002 , 19 years later and the tankers are not fully operational. Along the way both Boeing and a top civilian dod official did some hard time on felony corruption convictions/pleas. The author notes that in the event of an outbreak of war between the US and China the US ships must get far offshore to have even a chance of survival, well beyond the range of existing carrier based aircraft to attack Chinese forces. The lack of tankers, short range attack aircraft and light loads prevents the Navy from going deep inland. Part of the problem is that the Navy was induced to scrap the long range, extremely deadly F-14B and F-14X and replace them with the slower, shorter range , less carrying capacity F-18s (also made by Boeing) . The Navy had available at the time the F-14X upgrade program which would have converted the F-14 to an even more deadly fighter / bomber and equipped them with a follow-on to the Phoenix missiles, so badly needed to defend the fleet against airborne launched cruise missiles. In addition there were further upgrades in the works to give the Phoenix missiles extremely valuable capabilities. A further indication of the suspicious pattern is that DOD required that all F-14 tooling and parts be destroyed. The claim was made that the F-14s were maintenance hogs. Partly true but largely fixed with the F-14X digital conversion and new engines. While the maintenance hours per flight hour were problematical, when looked at in the big picture they were a rounding error in the 6,000 or so sailors in the Battle Group working 10-15 hour days and the thousands onshore supporting the effort. Does this matter, well yesterday the Chinese ran a practice attack on a US carrier as about 15 aircraft approached within 250 nautical miles of the carrier. Most certainly within range to launch enough hypersonic cruise missiles to virtually assure the carrier would be taken out of action or sent to the bottom of the ocean. As the author notes today's strategy requires that the carriers flee the area and standoff about 1,000 miles. Faster, much longer range F-14x aircraft with the next generation Phoenix would significantly reduce this threat. They would also do the same against large Russian aircraft carrying many cruise missiles. The F-35s will help overcome this deficiency but until they are fully operational and our Naval tanker capabilities redeveloped US capabilities are seriously compromised. The author makes many great observations regarding deficiencies in procurement management, in the Pentagon , Congress and White House. Examples discussed include the Army's failed attempt to acquire a new pistol. The 500 page request for proposals and flawed competition would be a joke were in not for the fact that the taxpayers precious dollars were wasted in the failed effort. An illustration of how perverted the situation has become was illustrated today with a note the the US Air Force had issued an RFP for a "modesty curtain" to be installed on our ancient B-52's because there were now female personnel flying missions. This is a need that should be solvable by a few individuals over a bottle of wine who would probably come up with better ideas, reviewed by an engineer on Monday and perhaps fabricated in one of the base shops. As others have noted it was USAF Col John Boyd who revolutionized the air to air combat, was shunned by top Brass while at the Pentagon and left to his own devices prepared his famous day long lecture on Winning and Loosing Wars that in turn helped rewrite the USMC land battle doctrine. Most all of this work done out of sight of his "leaders" . The author might have also given credit to leaders like Admiral Tom Connolly who sacrificed his career to save Naval aviation from the terminally flawed F-111B as an example of the character and courage needed in the Pentagon, Congress and the White House today and into the future. The author's descriptions of the challenges posed by an aggressive and expansive China should be taken to heart by every American. Unless we stop treating military procurement as a Chicago like spoils system and manage both what we buy and what we pay for it we are inviting Chinese military challenges and placing an even greater financial millstone around the necks of American taxpayers and their future generations. Overall , not perfect but a very important must read
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Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2021

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