Mine have always been pretty quiet also. I was beginning to chalk it up to me not being able to hear, since it seemed every one else mentioned how noisy they are.
My experiences are very similar to yours. It's always been easy to hook up. I had a Trail Lite TT for a year in 2005, before going back to a B. it came with an EQ4 hitch. The only thing bad aboutgit was I never got an electric tongue jack, so I had to hand crank that thing up to put the spring bars on. That got to be a pain. However, now with the electric tongue jack on my current TT, things are good.
As for the wind moving the TV & TT as a unit, that's the best you're ever going to get, IMO. Enough wind will move anything. Enough wind will blow over 18 wheelers. As long as the wind isn't moving your TT without the TT, I feel you're good to go.
If the wind get too bad, you just have to stop for a while.
rightyouareken wrote:
I have had no issues hitching up with the truck at up to a 15-20 degree angle from the trailer as well as when the truck is slightly off level compared to the trailer. The worst that it requires is maybe jacking the tongue up a little higher than normal to get the bars hooked up. Sometimes when the truck and trailer aren't level to each other one bar will need a bit more elevation to hook up. No issues.
My hitch has also been very quiet. Maybe it's not rusted in yet as I only have about 3,000 miles on it, but no don't get any squeeling, screeching, etc. Just the occasional pop or creak when making tighter turns in campgrounds or something. Nothing I can hear unless my windows are down and certainly none on the highway or normal roads.
I think the hitch works pretty well. I've never had a sway event, but wind does blow my rig around a bit more than I'd prefer sometimes. It blows the rig as one unit and it always stays in line, but would like a bit more solid feeling. I think that's mostly down to our trucks' weak suspensions and marshmallow p-metric tires though.
