Andersen Aluminum Ultimate Hitch Redesigned

SkiSmuggs wrote:
Maybe we can solve locking the Andersen right after we solve locking the fuel door on my Super Duty.

You don't lock the fuel door? What if someone comes along and opens the fuel door and takes your fuel cap? I wouldn't want to be the one following you down a bumpy road as technically, the fuel could bounce out of the tank and spray all over the road.

Oh, the humanity. ;)
j/k

If all of you are enjoying this thread, please learn edit your quotes to quote just the person you want instead of just repeating a whole line of previous posts.

I have been editing them to keep the thread moving along but am getting quite weary of doing so. If I have to spend any more of my time editing posts to remove unneeded quotes then the either the thread will be closed, or the offending post will be deleted.

If I can take the time to do the editing, so can you!
Barney (moderator)

Maybe we can solve locking the Andersen right after we solve locking the fuel door on my Super Duty.

Cummins12V98 wrote:


I guess you have not read my repeated posts saying that there is NO WAY to lock the RV to the Andersen. Sure you can push and twist and a joker can twist and pull. That is my POINT!!!

Your point is silly. People don't go around detaching trailers from trucks for kicks, and if you did encounter such an odd soul I don't think a padlock would be much of a deterrent. Your time would be better spent worrying about getting hit by a meteorite.

Boy, does it ever need to warm up soon>.. This thread has now gone from informative to entertainment.

Cummins12V98 wrote:


I guess you have not read my repeated posts saying that there is NO WAY to lock the RV to the Andersen. Sure you can push and twist and a joker can twist and pull. That is my POINT!!!

Along the lines of product improvement, Andersen could easily address this issue too. The locking mechanism is nothing more than an engagement pin attached to the pin box coupler that simply slides underneath the fat part of the raised GN ball. Andersen could make the engagement pin longer and allow it pass all the way through the coupler, then add a hole on the end large enough to fit a padlock or lynch pin. This would keep it from working itself back out.

On my conventional Reese hitch, I never did anything more than lock it in place with with the lynch pin, and I'm guessing most people only do as much.

One reported bent hitch and 5 pages of handwringing. Just imagine if we find out there are 2 reported issues. Hang on folks, it'll set a new forum record.
On another note, anyone have a documented report of someone tampering with their hitch? Never seen or heard of one in over 25 years. More handwringing over padlocks.

dedmiston wrote:
Yaaaaawwwwwn.

Thank you for not closing this! I think everyone has been civil. Good debate!

laknox wrote:

Cummins12V98 wrote:
Imagine the bed of the truck is not there for a minute. With the RV hooked up what does the hitch do???? It would move forward when braking and backward when accelerating. and both directions when hitting a bridge. The FACT is the BED of the truck is supporting the weight that is applied to the Andersen hitch!

Dunno know about that. My Turnover Ball base is bolted solidly to the frame, which holds my Companion, and would hold an Andersen if I had one. The bed =stabilizes= the load.

Lyle

Read my reply to Russ above.

rhagfo wrote:

Cummins12V98 wrote:
Imagine the bed of the truck is not there for a minute. With the RV hooked up what does the hitch do???? It would move forward when braking and backward when accelerating. and both directions when hitting a bridge. The FACT is the BED of the truck is supporting the weight that is applied to the Andersen hitch!

Cummins going to call you on this one!
Correct me if I am wrong, but your first B&W was a companion to the turn over ball, and depended on the truck bed for support. I don't ever remember you complaining about it.

That is why if I went to a B&W, it would be the Patriot and rails.

Sir I will call you in return ;)

I have mentioned MANY times I DID have bed deflection with my 18K Companion towing my 18K MobileSuites and the base of the hitch actually bent, the bed was also slightly dented. B&W sent me a new base along with plastic strips that filled in the corrugation of the bed so the hitch base when it had fore and aft movement would transfer the load directly to the bed cross members. The hitch was rock solid after that. Since they have redesigned the base and now is rated to 20K.

My experience with my 18K Companion is why I know for sure when towing heavy with the Ultimate you WILL have bed deflection.

When you full time you will get a larger RV and a nice RAM Dually and you will have a B&W RVK3600 locked into the factory puck system.