Is it bad to get to big of Equalizer hitch

Huntindog wrote:

mfoster711 wrote:

Huntindog wrote:
The customer service person has spoken.. EVERYONE should just get the 14K hitch.

That is not what he said and I really think you are getting a little extreme. What he did say was:

As far as getting a bigger hitch, if there is any possibility of going over the GVWR or tongue weight ratings of a certain hitch, I would get the next size up.

This advice is completely sound and is relevant to my initial question. This advice also matches up with the chart I found for Reese.

Does a 14k hitch work for any camper? I don't know. I'm not sure the 14k could be properly setup for a very light weight camper. Regardless, this is not what I was asking.

I pulled that sentence from what you posted as him saying... Perhaps you should read it again.

An engineer would NEVER say something like that.. They base what they say on their engineering knowledge, not what they have "heard".

A customer service person on OTOH will say whatever they think you want to hear.

Seriously Huntindog, he never said "EVERYONE should just get the 14K hitch". Reread it. Show me where he said that. Are you possibly misinterpreting something he said cause you want to keep arguing that point?

I think we all need to remember that his response is a response to my question and my question was about whether or not is is ok to get the next size up if you are on the high end of one size and not sure if you might ever load your vehicle enough to warrant the next size.

I did not ask Equalizer support "Is it OK to get the 14k hitch cause I figure it will work for everything"? If I would have asked that question then he may have replied very different and I am not going to assume what his response to that question is. If you want to know, you email them.

Let's get back to my original question and get off the debate of whether a 14k is OK for everything. I don't know the answer to that question. I did not ask support that question. I think most people don't really care about that question either. But, I do think there are people that are on the high end of one size hitch and are debating if it is OK to get the next size up just in case they have extra cargo at times.