Picking up new truck tom0rrow

You might notice a slight difference in towing power over your '03 once you hook that 900 ft/lb torque beast up to your 5ver. We bought a '15 2500 Big Horn with a 6.7 and absolutely love it.

Congratulation on your new acquisition.

Congrats on the new truck and thank you.

Don

kimomjtb wrote:

Greene728 wrote:
Excellent choice! What dealer here in GA if you don't mind me asking?

Akins Ford....they are even sending a driver to pick them up. I beleive they are located an hour away from Atlanta..

Akins is an excellent organization.

IdaD wrote:
You could also buy an adapter that fits the factory pucks and mount your existing hitch to that, assuming you were happy with how it worked. Figure $380 with free shipping.

If you are going picture frame, I highly recommend the Demco 6099 over the Reese/Ram one. Better puck latches, sits lower similar to standard rails and can be released from pucks without unpinning the hitch.

Congrats on the new ride. Enjoy!!

You could also buy an adapter that fits the factory pucks and mount your existing hitch to that, assuming you were happy with how it worked. Figure $380 with free shipping.

Just pick a name brand hitch in your price range and rated for more than your current towing needs and you'll be fine.

Bionic Man wrote:
I am not familiar with the Curt, but I don't know how you can possibly say that a Reese is "harder to hitch" than a B & W.

Long story, but I borrowed a truck with a B & W hitch to move my trailer in April. There was no difference in ease of hitching vs my Reese Elite. And I honestly felt that the B&W was unnecessarily big - much bulkier than my Reese (comparing a 20k B&W vs my 18k Reese).

After reading all the dribble on here regarding how superior the B&W is, I was honestly disappointed in the B&W. f I was buying a hitch today, I would chose a Reese Elite over the B&W, but that is a personal preference - it is likely you would not go wrong with purchasing either.

I know you LOVE your B&W, but it pretty apparent that you are less than objective in matters related to hitches (as well as other things).

Some Reese hitch just fine and others do not. The upper end models seem to be fine. Just going on what I have read. I do have personal experience hitching the Curt/RAM hitch and it is NOT simple and easy.

I am not familiar with the Curt, but I don't know how you can possibly say that a Reese is "harder to hitch" than a B & W.

Long story, but I borrowed a truck with a B & W hitch to move my trailer in April. There was no difference in ease of hitching vs my Reese Elite. And I honestly felt that the B&W was unnecessarily big - much bulkier than my Reese (comparing a 20k B&W vs my 18k Reese).

After reading all the dribble on here regarding how superior the B&W is, I was honestly disappointed in the B&W. f I was buying a hitch today, I would chose a Reese Elite over the B&W, but that is a personal preference - it is likely you would not go wrong with purchasing either.

I know you LOVE your B&W, but it pretty apparent that you are less than objective in matters related to hitches (as well as other things).

Personally I would bite the bullet and get the one in the pic. $1,159 from trailer to Tweety's.

Maybe someone can chime in, can you use the 20K Companion with the gooseneck portion of the RAM Factory puck system? If so that would be less expensive and still high quality.

Curt is made in China, REESE ic China/Mexico if that matters. They are both harder to hitch than the B&W.