Ford F150 VS Honda Odyssey
Hi Everyone, This is my first post here. Why is a Ford f150 so much better than my Honda Odyssey for towing a trailer. Both vehicles have about the same width, the GVWR is about the same for bot...
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STEVEO496 wrote:
On a unibody car your receiver hitch will be bolted to the floor pan, on a truck it's bolted to the frame. I put an aftermarket receiver hitch on my wife's SUV so that we could use a bike carrier but I seriously wouldn't put much weight on it.
Not all aftermarket hitches are so badly designed
I installed a "euro-hitch" on my 2005 Passat Wagen TDI that could handle ~5000#, because you completely replaced the rear bumper bar and slid the new bar+hitch into the rails molded into the unibody. You did lose the integral shocks in the bumper though, so potentially more damage in low speed collisions.
I'm sure the OE hitches built into new SUVs and vans are similarly designed to handle their advertised weights. After market hitches ... maybe not.
