do I have the dreaded weak GM OEM hitch?
Truck is 2008 Chev 2500HD. The sticker on the hitch says: 15837632 V-5 GM. I dont have a good picture of it, but a simillar one can be seen here. It's got the round cross bars. Thanks
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Don, thanks for the link
Just remember that all things engineered/designed is NOT for the good days out
there when a riding lawn mower 'can' do it...
It is for the worst day out there when Mr Murphy crosses your path...
This thread is where I met Don (Burbman) and initially though isolated untile
noodled it some more. Am a designer in my first career so of great interest
The more I noodled it, the more upset at the designers at GM...to then realize
that their management dictated the 'hidden' receiver requirement married with
junior or designers who did NOT tow. So none of them understood towing heavy...
This is my first analysis and in reviewing it just now...stick by it. It is correct
For those who don't believe, or will 'watch it'...this is one fellow member
who lost his trailer due to a failed OEM receiver of this kind... He is the
'other guy' that so many folks think won't happen to themselves...
He sent the receiver box & 'U' section to me and I took hundreds of
high res pics. Forensically found that there was no missing parts/section
Just bent as the pict shows. That was then sent to NHTSA for their
inspection, which am assuming not enough reports....so they dropped it
as an isolated incident.
No one was injured badly in this where his Sub and trailer crossed
several interstate lanes...all the while rolling several times. Another
former member lost his 10 year old to a failed GMT800 receiver. Both
no longer post here
Just remember that all things engineered/designed is NOT for the good days out
there when a riding lawn mower 'can' do it...
It is for the worst day out there when Mr Murphy crosses your path...
This thread is where I met Don (Burbman) and initially though isolated untile
noodled it some more. Am a designer in my first career so of great interest
The more I noodled it, the more upset at the designers at GM...to then realize
that their management dictated the 'hidden' receiver requirement married with
junior or designers who did NOT tow. So none of them understood towing heavy...
This is my first analysis and in reviewing it just now...stick by it. It is correct
For those who don't believe, or will 'watch it'...this is one fellow member
who lost his trailer due to a failed OEM receiver of this kind... He is the
'other guy' that so many folks think won't happen to themselves...
He sent the receiver box & 'U' section to me and I took hundreds of
high res pics. Forensically found that there was no missing parts/section
Just bent as the pict shows. That was then sent to NHTSA for their
inspection, which am assuming not enough reports....so they dropped it
as an isolated incident.
No one was injured badly in this where his Sub and trailer crossed
several interstate lanes...all the while rolling several times. Another
former member lost his 10 year old to a failed GMT800 receiver. Both
no longer post here
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