I'm currently looking for a small car trailer to use for taking my polo to and from track days instead of driving it there.

Ebay is littered with home-made/DIY trailers. Some of which look pikey as fuck, some of which look well made. None will have data plates though!

So my question is, what's the legality in using these things on the road? I know that with a proper trailer, they have data plates on which state the max permissible weight on them. Given that I passed my test after jan 1997, I can only tow up to 3.5tonnes total max permissible weight of tow car + trailer. There's plenty of small "clubman" style trailers that keep me under this limit but what happens with a home made trailer? It has no max weights on it....

Yeah I know I could just wing it and hope I never get pulled but it's a risk I don't want. If I lose my license I'll end up not being able to get to work, pay mortgage etc... aint worth it....

If a trailer was made after a certain date, it has to have a plate on with it's gross weight and date of manufacture.

Of course, if it doesn't have a plate, who's to say it wasn't?

My transporter is an early 90's 4.2 tonne drag, which spent it's previous life behind 7.5 tonne trucks, somewhere along the line though, it's plate went missing.

I personally wouldn't trust a homemade trailer with a car on.

Have you thought about an A-frame?

Borrow a Transit Jumbo panel van,you can drive straight in (with planks/ramps) and shut the doors.

Or just a lwb one,but you wont be able to shut the doors.

Depends how much poke you're running,but you'll have to be out the Polo's front arches to have problems getting past the Transit rear inner arches.