Anyone ever used their 525 as a tow vehicle?

[ricola]

We traded in our V6 Nissan Xterra for a V8 Titan back in 2004. Were still under 2 years of ownership. Some of you may remember I have a Porsche 914 I converted to 300+ HP 928 V8 power. The car is lovingly know as the Alien. We like to travel out west to the 914club.com West Coast Classic Meets on the Gold Coast. The Xterra just didn't have the grunt for the mountain passes.

We've had the worse luck with the Titan. It has awesome power and if ever needed could pull a house. But the rear axle is a joke. First Diff broke at around 7000 miles. We had the warentee service done a week before we were to leave on vacation. We bought this truck to tow the Alien out to the WCC 05.

Five days before the event the diff broke. It took 6 weeks to get it fixed. Nissan wouldn't loan us a truck so we could keep our vacation plans intact. My options were to drive the car at great risk to the event or not go.
We never towed anything with it before the first failure.

Now just over 36000 and it broke again. We still haven't used it to tow more than my 12' trailer with the 914 (twice) and the MGA (once) I put a plow on it last year but it was such a bad plow truck I gave up trying to use it to plow after 4 tried. The ABS kept coming on and stopping the truck...

Were hoping the "60,000 mile Power Train" warentee covers the rear axle or were Fuched! We just have the last basic warentee done two weeks ago. Just went over the 36000 mile basic warentee!

Anyone ever had this happen? We luv the truck, but CRAP! that's it!

BTW: When we had it in last, the service manager told us when they changed the diff under warentee they failed to install the vent in the new diff. They were to order one and call us when it came in. Guess what... No call. Now they'll get to add that vent to the second diff!

So back on topic, Anyone ever towed their AX car with their 525I T?

Here's the trailer with a rare raspberry color 914 I have. It's small.