Automated Safety Hitch Owners
We currently own a 15K 5th wheel and have begun the conversation of moving up to a better 5th wheel, the cost of that is it will exceed my F350SRW towing capacity. We are looking into the Automated Sa...
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braindead0 wrote:Please explain why exceeding an arbitrary number from the manufacturer would cause an issue, and please provide some instances of real world facts, not suppositions.
If you exceed the towing capacity of your truck, nothing can change that. The towing capacity is how much weight you can pull, period. If you exceed that and were to get in an accident, expect it to be an issue.
I don't think they're necessarily a good idea, but I'm basing that on the fact that there are basically none out there. If it worked so well, it should have caught on and would now be very popular. They've been around in one guise or another for probably 50 years.
