UPDATE - Andersen Ultimate Redesign
As it has been discussed on here, Andersen recently redesigned their Ultimate 5th Wheel hitch. There's been wide speculation regarding why they did this, or if that was an indication that the origina...
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Cdash wrote:That's the way I feel about it. If something happens to my hitch and the company think it needs to be replaced, that's a failure. Like you say, not a catastrophic failure, but a failure all the same. If Anderson didn't consider it a failure, they wouldn't replace it with the new design at no cost.
Good information.
#3 - I'm not buying the "no failures" line.
If a hitch bent enough that it needs to be replaced, that IS a failure. It may not be a "catastrophic failure" that resulted in a separation of truck and trailer, but in its duty to pull a trailer within rated limits within reasonable expected conditions (i mean not getting rear ended) without damage, it failed. Plain and simple.
There isn't a component in any of our setups that should need to be replaced after a panic stop, except for maybe a glass that falls out of a cabinet.
I hope they get things sorted out and don't continue to see "minor incidents".
