# Towing an all wheel drive car

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/towing-an-all-wheel-drive-car/32548>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Created:** [June 28, 2009, 8:34pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/towing-an-all-wheel-drive-car/32548 "2009-06-28T20:34:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![juno\_2\_to](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@juno\_2\_to](https://community.cartalk.com/u/juno_2_to)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2009, 8:34pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/towing-an-all-wheel-drive-car/32548/1 "2009-06-28T20:34:27Z")

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I was towed in the Boston area because I’d parked it the street on a street cleaning day.  
  
 The car was towed by hook I believe. I know it wasn’t on a flatbed. I heard the noise, ran outside and it was being hooked up. They wouldn’t unhook it.  
  
 I called a friend and went after it. It was in a lot about five miles away. I paid for it, and got it out. It hasn’t sounded right since. it whirs up and down as I accelerate and decelerate…kind of like a hot wheels toy car. Also when I back up it seems as if the back left wheel is woobly. It also seems to brake funny, It brakes slides a little, then brakes. The car is a 2005 Matrix with only 32.000,00 miles on it.  
  
 Could the things I said about how it runs now be related and because of the towing? Can I get recompensed? I mean aren’t they suppose to tow a car knowing how to tow that model correctly?