Front TowBar

pscan.eu said:

My wife's old Freelander hit a Prius that pulled out in front of her. The initial point of impact was that towing eye. It utterly destroyed the front of the Prius. The Freelander would have survived if the impact hadn't triggered the airbags resulting in an cat B assessment from the insurance company. In my opinion that front towing eye is about as strong as anything else on the front of Freelander 1. Pushing a caravan around a yard is probably way less taxing than pulling 1 1/2 tons of Freelander out of a swamp.

Just my opinion though. I'm not liable if I'm wrong

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And this is exactly what I mean about confusing a towing eye with a recovery point.
You haven't mentioned whether it was the centre towing point on one of the ones on the sides of the front if you see what I mean. (Both are mentioned in the thread I posted).

Speaking as a person who did Motor Sports Recovery for years, we would NEVER use a towing eye to pull a car out of a swamp, far too likely for it to suddenly part company with its parent vehicle and go flying through the air attached to the winch cable.
Many, many rallyists attached pathetic recovery points to their vehicles to pass scrutineering, but we usually ended up having to crawl under the vehicle to attach chains or recovery straps to the suspension to be able to safely pull or winch them out.
The worst is people who use their tow balls to do "snatch" or kinetic recoveries. The tow hitch can just fly off and kill people. Lots of YouTubes etc about this.

So, most important question, how heavy is the heaviest caravan/trailer?
And apart from that, have you asked the same question in the Freelander section of the forum?
Someone else may have already done what you want.

I mean the front left loop that's bolted to the chassis leg.

Looks like OP has POed anyway!!