Bent Trailer Hitch Ball

mrw8i wrote:
Wow. This is the 2nd time I've seen where CW allowed someone tow a trailer out of their parking lot in an unsafe condition. Same thing on both 2" ball. The 1st time I saw it was a neighbor of mine. Not even a WD hitch in that case. I was going for a walk and he and another neighbor were staring at the truck/trailer combination hooked up and wondering what they could do to level the trailer and truck - it was a significant "V" shape with the rear of the trailer very high and the front of the truck very high. He had just got back from his first 200 mile camping trip. It was so bad, he was loading the rear of the trailer with weight. He was talking about air bags - I informed of WD hitches. I had a used (two year old) WD hitch I was no longer using with 1200 and 1000 lb bars. I sold him the setup - same as the OP, with the 100 lb bars then helped him install it. That's when I found he had a 2" ball.

I spent the afternoon helping him setup the WD hitch. Had him test drive it. Talked about weight distribution in the trailer, safe speed, swaying, level of trailer, etc. How full tanks could change the dynamics, as you use water it moves from the water tank to the gray/black tanks - possibly upsetting the weights in the trailer. By the end of the afternoon he was happy with how much better it drove.

Not just Camping World. The idiot who set up my WD didn't tighten the nut on the hitch ball. When I unhitch the trailer at home I saw the ball wiggle. Drove right back to the dealership after that and had them check every nut on the hitch.