Andersen No-Sway Experience
Over all I give the Andersen a thumbs up. Initial install is simple and quick. Its ability to move weight forward on your rig is surprisingly good. It pulls well and handles sway about as well as coul...
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About 5000 miles on mine so far, towing with both my Dodge Magnum and our 1/2T Silverado throughout the Northwest, with a lot of Eastern WA/NE Oregon (so lots of hills and wind). Trailer is a 21' 4000ish-lb dual axle, so it's not extreme and pretty short for a dual axle to start with, which probably helps stability.
But, I love this hitch. Lightweight, simple, clean, quieter than others. Never any sway (nothing to compare to though, never even towed without it) and no "bouncing" when the tongue dips or rises. Really appreciated the quiet when a guy at a campsite spent about 45 minutes trying to back his ginormous trailer into a medium-sized spot and his sway control popped and snapped enough for the whole CG to hear every single time.
Tightening the nuts can be a pain, but I would guess it's not any more effort than what you go through for other setups (especially considering you don't have to disconnect to back up). Either way you need to manually input enough spring potential energy to bridge up the hitch, no getting around physics. A 1 1/4" ratcheting box wrench helps.
One thing that really helped was I noticed the hitch had a little slop in our receiver. I put beads of weld on the top and bottom of the hitch and ground it down to fit. This really helped tighten things up and eliminate even more noise, bounce, etc. This would probably apply to any WD hitch.
But, I love this hitch. Lightweight, simple, clean, quieter than others. Never any sway (nothing to compare to though, never even towed without it) and no "bouncing" when the tongue dips or rises. Really appreciated the quiet when a guy at a campsite spent about 45 minutes trying to back his ginormous trailer into a medium-sized spot and his sway control popped and snapped enough for the whole CG to hear every single time.
Tightening the nuts can be a pain, but I would guess it's not any more effort than what you go through for other setups (especially considering you don't have to disconnect to back up). Either way you need to manually input enough spring potential energy to bridge up the hitch, no getting around physics. A 1 1/4" ratcheting box wrench helps.
One thing that really helped was I noticed the hitch had a little slop in our receiver. I put beads of weld on the top and bottom of the hitch and ground it down to fit. This really helped tighten things up and eliminate even more noise, bounce, etc. This would probably apply to any WD hitch.
