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DKRITTER's avatar
DKRITTER
Explorer
Jun 29, 2016

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 Safety Hitch as an alternative to trading and going with a dually.

I have done a fair amount of research and the opinions of folks who have never even seen it much less used one run the gambit and honestly that's not what I'm looking for. I haven't seen many around nor spoken to anyone who owns one and has actual experience with the ASH.


If you own, have owned and/or have actual experience with one please post and let me know your opinion and experience. Good, Bad or Ugly


Thanks
  • fj12ryder's avatar
    fj12ryder
    Explorer III
    Jun 29, 2016
    braindead0 wrote:
    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.
    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.

    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.
  • braindead0's avatar
    braindead0
    Explorer
    Jun 29, 2016
    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.
  • is_it_friday_ye's avatar
    is_it_friday_ye
    Explorer
    Jun 29, 2016
    I don't know anything about the safety hitch but would it be cheaper to convert your current SRW to DRW?

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