It's not for towing, per se. It's used to hook the cable to to drag the car
onto a flat bed tow truck.







"Dave Plowman (News)" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> joe_tide > wrote:
>> There should be one in the front bumper too.
>
>> It's where you screw in the eyelet from the toolbox for pulling the car
>> if it gets stuck.
>
> Strange it's at the back?
>
> I'd always thought it was for lashing the car down on ships, etc. Doesn't
> look terribly substantial for towing with.
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