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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laknox wrote:Cummins12V98 wrote:
"From internet chatter it seems the score is 2-2. There are 2 reports of Andersen Hitches that deformed and were replaced with redesigned parts in the Cummins thread. And in this forum Cummins12V98 reports two B&W's had base deformation resulting in replacement with redesigned parts. Both companies stood behind their respective products and satisfied their customers."
B&W's was NOT a design failure as I made clear earlier as Andersen's clearly is.
B&W's design did it's job with the 18K Companion when used in a truck that it was originally designed to be used in. My 11 and my Dad's 12 had much weaker beds and the ribs did not align under the strongest part of the base. All that was NOT B&W's design problem but they did see that the newer trucks are built different and they re designed the Companion to work with the newer trucks and is now rated to 20K.
In my conversation with B&W the other day, they did say that they had to redesign the Companion base in the '12 time frame due to major changes by all 3 of the Big 3, both in their beds and in their frames. This is what led to the current configuration, which also has a higher rating than the original Companion.
Lyle
Yep!
I believe it was the early part of 12 that they replaced our bases.
