2001 Peugoet Boxer owners manual anyone?

TL/DR - anyone got an owners manual for a 2001 Peugoet Boxer 230 or 270 2 litre petrol (or similar)? That they’d be kind enough to scan or photograph a few pages of to email to me? I need something official listing the max unbraked towing weight and max nose weight of my base vehicle as I’m trying to export it from UK and import it to Belgium.

Sorry for this long post but I am out of options so hoping the good folks here may be able to help where Peugeot won’t.

I have a 2001 Autosleeper Symphony based on a 2 litre petrol Peugeot Boxer which I’ve owned for ten years. Probably foolishly I embarked on importing it to Belgium. The process is as long and painful as you might expect, but I’ve been patient and dogged and have got as far as the final hurdle (a “controlle technique” - a bit like an MOT but a special import one). 

However it is now blocked due to an issue with the towbar (which I need as I tow my motorbike on a trailer). It looks like I’m going to have to change the Watling towbar I have fitted as even though it’s legal as it stands (and would be if my vehicle was already Belgian) it magically becomes illegal during the process of importing it. So I’ll need to remove it and fit a type approved one. This is annoying/a pointless expense but seems doable. However I also need something official from Peugeot on the base vehicle, namely the  max un-braked trailer mass and max nose weight. The contrôle people say Peugeot can give me this with my VIN and that they will not certify the vehicle for towing without it. 

I think these figures are 750kg (max unbraked trailer mass) and 250kg (max nose weight) respectively but after 3 months with a mostly unhelpful Peugeot being passed between dealers and French and English customer services they now inform me they cannot tell me this basic info about my vehicle. So I am stuck.

Unfortunately I don’t have a Peugeot Boxer owners manual for the vehicle, Peugeot’s website has them to download but only as far back as 2002 onwards which is a different model to mine. I’ve been searching online and eBay etc in the hope of finding one electronically or otherwise but no luck. So I am hoping someone on here may have one and be prepared to photograph or scan the key page(s) and email them to me.

Many thanks in advance!

Sorry 
the only ones available are for diesels.
Very few petrol engine models were sold.So not worth manuals being produced.

Micky

2001 Owners manual here

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Tortoiseball wrote:It looks like I’m going to have to change the Watling towbar I have fitted as even though it’s legal as it stands (and would be if my vehicle was already Belgian) it magically becomes illegal during the process of importing it. So I’ll need to remove it and fit a type approved one. This is annoying/a pointless expense but seems doable.

Sorry if this is something you have already ruled this out, but is it not possible to remove the towbar at the point of import, and dispose of it, only to "discover" a new towbar for sale in Belium that happens by amazing coincidence to be exactly the same as the one you disposed of? It sounds as though if you were to fit this "new" towbar once imported, it would be legal?

And on the subject of noseweights and trailer mass, would it be possible to just use the figures for a similar van and simply tell the officials there that your variant is the same? It seems extremely unlikely that they would be able to disprove what you say. What would be the consequences if you got the figures slightly wrong?

Thank you all for the rapid and helpful replies, very kind!!

Ploughlin - thank so much for this link. That’s exactly what I have been fruitlessly searching for. Not exactly a bargain, but I’ve bought it just now and hope it has what I need to unblock things, in which case it will be a bargain! 

Roopert - many thanks for the not unreasonable suggestions, as you suspected I have indeed considered them. I generally try to follow the rules, but if they make that impossible despite my best efforts then I do consider my obligation to respect them no longer applies. So I have considered creative ways around the issue. To be fair to them, the controller guys themselves suggested a way around being to simply remove the towbar but only if I’m never going to use the vehicle to tow again. That doesn’t work for me given I want to tow my motorbike. The alternative of removing it to get the van imported and then sneakily later refitting it has a couple of issues. First if I manage to get the vehicle imported then it will need to undergo annual controlle techniques and any towbar fitted will be checked for type approval AND the vehicle documents checked to ensure it’s been cleared for towing too. The special document I’ll get as part of the importation controlle is effectively a one off certificate of conformity and that will be checked every controlle and will state whether towing is approved or not (and that towbar also needs to be the approved, so can’t use Watling one). So I’d need to take the towbar off every year for the check and then refit it which is a pain…And the second issue is that it would of course be sketchy eg if I got stopped or for insurance validity or if I had an accident etc as this special import document will show towing not approved… so a very last resort option.

On using similar vehicles specs I’ve done some research online to come up with the 750kg/250kg figures inc with the 2002 Boxer manual etc (which can be downloaded from the Peugeot website) but controlle folk wouldn’t accept that. I’ve asked Peugeot to just confirm it’s the same as 2002 (which contrôle guys would accept), but Peugeot are remaining unhelpful…

Anyway let’s hope the 2001 manual PLoughlin kindly pointed me at can unblock things. It’s even in French so that should please the Belgians!

Crossed fingers and thank you all for your time trying to help me, much appreciated.