The Tow Pro is a tailored cover designed specifically for your caravan. A simple solution for travel, it’s easy to fit before your journey and quick to remove upon arrival, offering protection on the move.
Starting from £289.00 + FREE DELIVERY
Do You Need a Towing Cover for Your Coachman Caravan?
Do You Need a Towing Cover for Your Coachman Caravan?
It’s a question a lot of Coachman owners ask after their first season, usually after noticing the first stone chips on the front panel, or the gradual dulling of the locker doors that were gleaming when the van left the showroom. The short answer is yes. But it’s worth understanding exactly what a towing cover does, what it protects against, and why the fit matters so much, particularly for a van as well-built as a Coachman.
What Is a Towing Cover, and What Does It Do?
A towing cover is a fitted cover for the front face of your caravan, used while the van is being towed. It covers the front panel, locker doors (if on the front) windows & panoramic windows (model dependent), acting as a barrier between the caravan and everything the road throws at it during transit.
And the road throws quite a lot. Stone chips, grit, road debris, insects, diesel spray from lorries, motorway rain, all of it hits the front of your caravan on every journey. Over time, the cumulative effect is visible: paintwork dulls, locker panels pick up surface damage, and the front face that looked so clean on your driveway starts to show its mileage.
A towing cover intercepts all of that before it reaches the van.
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Why Coachman Owners in Particular Should Consider One
Coachman caravans have been built in Hull, East Yorkshire since 1986, and in that time they’ve built a reputation as one of the most consistently well-crafted caravans on the UK market. The build quality, the finish, the attention to detail: Coachman owners tend to notice and care about these things, which is exactly why protecting that finish makes sense.
A new Coachman is a significant investment. The front face, styled locker doors and front window, is the most exposed part of that investment every time you hitch up and drive. Towing covers exist to protect it.
It’s also worth noting that Coachman vans hold their value well. Keeping the exterior in good condition, particularly the front face, which is the most visible area when a van is parked up on a site or in storage, directly supports that resale value over years of ownership.
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What About the Fit – Does it Matter?
Yes, significantly. This is where a tailored cover differs from a universal one.
A universal towing cover is made to roughly fit a range of caravan sizes and profiles. It’ll cover the front, but it won’t follow the shape of your specific van’s panel lines, window positions or locker layout. The result is a cover that gaps, billows, and — critically — can move around while you’re towing. A cover that moves is a cover that can rub, and rubbing against a GRP panel is exactly the kind of sustained contact you’re trying to avoid.
A tailored Coachman towing cover is patterned specifically to your van’s make, model and year. It sits flush against the front face, follows the contours properly, and stays in place. That’s what makes the protection meaningful rather than approximate.
Tow Pro Range, Tailored Protection for Coachman Models
We hold patterns for Coachman caravans across the full range and we manufacture every cover in-house at our UK facility. All our Coachman towing covers are fitted by sliding awning tape into the open awning channels on both sides of the van’s front face, a clean, secure fitting method that requires no adhesive or drilling and leaves no marks on the caravan.
The Coachman Tow Pro Range
STARTING FROM £289.00
Tow Pro
STARTING FROM £359.00
Tow Pro+
The Tow Pro+ offers all the benefits of the Tow Pro with added flexibility. Featuring window, locker box, and grab handle access, we offer customisable options for a more personalised touch whilst protecting your caravan when travelling.
Starting from £359.00 + FREE DELIVERY
STARTING FROM £459.00
Tow Pro Elite
The Tow Pro Elite is made from our padded Velcrotex fabric, featuring 8mm thick foam to provide enhanced protection against larger stone chips and impacts. Tailored specifically for your caravan, it ensures superior protection during travel.
Starting from £459.00 + FREE DELIVERY
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STARTING FROM £399.00
Tow Pro Infinity
The Tow Pro Infinity is designed to provide extra protection for top panoramic windows, often found on some caravans, shielding them from potential damage. It also features the gas locker and grab handle access, offering extra convenience during travel. Manufactured from Vintex the Infinity Cover weighs 5.5kg.
Starting from £399.00 + FREE DELIVERY
STARTING FROM £559.00
Tow Pro Infinity Elite
The Tow Pro Infinity Elite offers all the protection of the Tow Pro Infinity, with the added benefit of thick foam padding in our durable Velcrotex material. This extra padding protects against larger stone chips and impacts, ensuring your caravan stays safe during travel. This increases the covers weight to 8.5kg.
Starting from £559.00 + FREE DELIVERY
So — Do You Need One?
If you tow your Coachman regularly, yes. The front face takes consistent, cumulative damage on every journey, and a tailored cover is the most direct and effective way to prevent it. The cost of a towing cover is a fraction of the cost of repairing a front panel or window & far less than the depreciation that comes with a van that looks like it’s been used hard.
If you only tow occasionally, it’s still worth considering. Stone chip damage doesn’t discriminate between long motorway journeys and short local ones, a single piece of road debris at 60mph is enough to mark a panel.
The question isn’t really whether you need one. It’s whether the condition of your Coachman matters to you. For most owners, it does.
