Should I Buy The Dealer's Hitch
I'm buying a bumper pull trailer and the dealer is offering to install a weight distribution hitch for $1,000. They said it is an Equal-i-zer, I don't remember which model. It's my first trailer so ...
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Thomas/NH wrote:mkirsch wrote:
If you're willing to pay the $1000's extra for an F250 over an F150, then why are you quibbling over the $300 of shop time to have the hitch installed? That's 2 hours of shop time these days, which is about right.
Say what??? When was the last time you went truck shopping? There is very little differnce between the 150s and the 250 or the 350 set up the same. Availability of trucks is another issue. Yes, I've been shopping and very discouraged by the lack of inventory. My local Ford dealer usually has hundreds of trucks on the lot, only had 6 Super dutys and 35 F150s.
That's been my experience...not much difference in price.
That said, $1000 seems kind of high. We had a hitch with installation thrown in for $600 a couple years back during the height of the RV boom.
Yes, a 3/4 ton will tow better with or without a WDH but generally nicer with. Our F250 with WDH tows like a dream. We've had it in 40mph cross winds and no sway. We also have a decent percentage hitch weight (13%) which the F250 has no issue with. With some marginal 1/2 ton trucks, people try to keep the hitch weight down which makes sway more of an issue.
