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Originally Posted by wstar
The description on those colorful fold-down hooks linked above says they're rated for 1.5 tons, which is less than your car weighs unless you're in a very stripped out race-only machine. Usually you want parts like that to be over-rated, not under-rated. The stock tow hook from the trunk works fine, and if you want it to be prettier and more visible when you install it at the track (because leaving a tow-hook in on the street is asking for more damage in minor rear-end collisions...), dip it in red Plastidip from a local hardware store  |
One of the guys at the track had one of those pretty aluminum tow hooks for his race car, all of 3000 lbs. After a breakdown on track, it ripped in half the moment the tow truck took up the slack on the tow line.