Rusted receiver hitch
The past few yrs on my 07 Tacoma I have noticed a regressing situation with rust on my receiver, so today I removed it. Going to get a price to replace and a price to have it sandblasted & Painted. Ho...
Forum Discussion
Still looking...
I first went to Toyota to price up a new receiver, of course expecting a higher price I was still shocked to see what Toyota was asking. (I'm not going to tell, it was that expensive) Seems my 650LB tongue weight class 3 hitch is made specifically for the Tacoma's with the tow pkgs. If I go with a generic class 3 the best I can find is 550LB and then I have to deal with adapting my bumper to fit the receiver. Plus I like the 650LB rating, gives me a higher safety factor between the hitch rating and the actual weight of my trailer tongue.
So the past couple of weeks been searching E-bay, craiglist, local salvage yards, various parts search engines
still looking...
mike
I first went to Toyota to price up a new receiver, of course expecting a higher price I was still shocked to see what Toyota was asking. (I'm not going to tell, it was that expensive) Seems my 650LB tongue weight class 3 hitch is made specifically for the Tacoma's with the tow pkgs. If I go with a generic class 3 the best I can find is 550LB and then I have to deal with adapting my bumper to fit the receiver. Plus I like the 650LB rating, gives me a higher safety factor between the hitch rating and the actual weight of my trailer tongue.
So the past couple of weeks been searching E-bay, craiglist, local salvage yards, various parts search engines
still looking...
mike
