Well to add to this topic my vx came with a stock tow hook thing.
Anyway i went while ago to get a tow hook made up and the guy at the 4x4 shop said nah it looks like a bumper hook. I wasnt soo convinced, Anyhow in need to take off my rear bumper to install my custom tow hitch. I thought id have a look at the hook properly.
Weirdly enough its fully attached to the chassis not a bumper. In a another way of putting it my vx doesnt have bumpers it just has cladding that is supported my little metal braces etc that is shown is the pics.
Well to get to the point about the hook. Its over 5mm thick. Is mounted to the end of the chassis rail with to bolts that have captive nuts. and also a nut inside the hook and a little welded piece that hooks onto the chassis
The first pic here is a pic of the hook, you can see the little bit that is hooked into the chassis it self
This picture you can see the bolt underneath
As well as the inside of the hook it is like double joined the thicker side is around 5mm
And in this pic here you can see the two big bolts that are bolted into the end of the chassis with captive nuts
And here just a general pic of the rear of the vx, showing the 7th member and the bumper bar thing that the cladding sits on.
Anyway my question is would that hook be possibly strong enough to place a recovery hook on like this vx shown below. The vx shown below is just someones in the Us with a recovery hook on it.
I checked out Ccvc thing about mounting the hooks it did seem sufficent. But id like to get a 2nd opinion.
Note - The bottom hole on the hook is quite large. Larger than 12mm so would need to be filled in and redrilled for the hook. On the black vx up top hes just basicaly bolted his on and still prob has a big gap etc
Cheers
Aaron