Third Major Blue Ox Casualty

Mike and Trish wrote:

Daveinet wrote:
BTW: Where do your safety chains attach???? I'm hoping they attach or wrap around the frame, rather than just to the baseplate as traditionally done.

My point is to everyone, if the safety chain is not wrapped around or attached directly to the frame, it is not a safety chain, it is a joke. Anyone who spends much time on any RV forum can remember posts of baseplates coming loose or breaking. This seems to happen every so often.

On my Blue Ox Aventa and baseplate, the detachable safety cables do attach to loops on the front of the baseplate, but (when correctly installed) another set of cables secure the baseplate to the toad's frame. I've heard tales on this forum of baseplate installations that skipped that step.

That's exactly what happened to me. I had the Brake Body installed by a pro. That's when he noticed that the cables securing the baseplate to the car frame were not looped around the frame but just coiled and hidden away. He corrected the situation. So much for "professionally installed" baseplate by a certified Blue OX dealer