Very Scary Tow Car Breakaway
A dear friend sent me this photo of his Jeep Cherokee which recently became detached while driving on I-95. The story goes that they were driving down I-95 when a motorist drove up beside them madl...
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There where some cars that the manufacture now longer allows them to be towed, in part because the front of the framework is designed to crumble in a crash, not be designed to allow the full weight of the vehicle to be towed by the front frame material.
So it might be the baseplate and hitch are still attached to the hitch bolts, to the factory installed framework, and that frame section has become detached from the rest of the vehicle?
My Honda CRV (1999) had bars going back to a attachment point about 3' behind the front bumper, to a support bolt in the floor there, where I replaced a inch long bolt with a 1-1/4" long bolt to accomidate the new brackets that attached to the new hitch. My guess is that is to make up for less than perfect strength in the factory to front bumper hitch mount strength?
On my 2007 Ford Edge, the Roadmaster hitch includes a replacement crossmember, that replaced the Ford Factory cross member, and became the attachment point for the hitch. Then bolts are put in place to secure that new crossmember to the car.
At least they where moving slowly!
Fred.
So it might be the baseplate and hitch are still attached to the hitch bolts, to the factory installed framework, and that frame section has become detached from the rest of the vehicle?
My Honda CRV (1999) had bars going back to a attachment point about 3' behind the front bumper, to a support bolt in the floor there, where I replaced a inch long bolt with a 1-1/4" long bolt to accomidate the new brackets that attached to the new hitch. My guess is that is to make up for less than perfect strength in the factory to front bumper hitch mount strength?
On my 2007 Ford Edge, the Roadmaster hitch includes a replacement crossmember, that replaced the Ford Factory cross member, and became the attachment point for the hitch. Then bolts are put in place to secure that new crossmember to the car.
At least they where moving slowly!
Fred.
