Don't tow something even the slightest bit heavy unless it's a Torklift Superhitch. I'm one of the ones people hear about but never actually know - I had a factory Class V hitch fail.
I had a nice ski boat, about 4500lbs on a factory installed Reese Class 5 hitch running a 48" extension. One day I went in to Superhitch to have my Torklift tie downs installed, and they pointed out that the welds on the receiver had cracked and only had about 50% of the weld left holding it on.
I turned white.
I didn't even think twice about fix/re-weld vs. replace. I immediately had it removed and bought a new Superhitch.
Funds were tight then for me too, but would have been even tighter had my boat flown loose off my truck and hit some minivan on the highway.
