soren
my post might not meet your approval, and that is fine... you can totally disagree with everything I posted and that too is fine, and I respect you opinions, although I think you are over playing your comments for effect some to…
I doubt anyone defended Keystone here, or white washed their past failings… but trying to tie this current problem to a known and already recalled part from 4 years ago is like shooting into the dark hole… and chances are a waste of time… should every Michelin 16 inch tire failure be automatically traced back to a 4 or 5 year old recall campaign…
If this is a true failure of a safety related part and is not operator error, there is a process in place where responsible parties have an opportunity to make it right voluntarily or by requirement if need be…
If the primary concern of the OP is data collection for first personal satisfaction or monetary recovery he has the product liability route… his choice(and weighs on credibility of intensions)… myself I believe the safety concerns that exist that can affect others is the first step and responsibility, plus it can be conducted at the same time as personal recovery efforts if need be…
but your view is yours, and even though I respect it, it hasn’t changed mine or view one bit and my post remains exactly how I would state it if asked again…
the defining silence on the questions I asked the OP gives me the information I was looking for about the thread…
I believe the responses he got were created by suspicions of his own words and attitudes in his post and would have been different if he mentioned what happened to him as a concern for others more than a self-help data collection in his first ever thread and postings…
BTW the pin in the hitch lock is not a guarantee that it was first hooked properly… and that is the only thing he has offered other than his claim of expertise in his first and only thread….