We have towed our Jeep Liberty more than 120,000 miles over the past 13 years with a Blue Ox base plate and tow bar. During that time we pulled the base plate off twice and had one tow bar casualty. Blue Ox stands behind their products!
Make sure your base plate is professionally installed IAW Blue Ox procedures. The box frame on my Liberty where the baseplate attaches is only 0.040" thick. Make sure the baseplate has a separate attachment to the frame (mine did not).
Be sure to use an auxiliary brake system on every trip! For most of our miles we used a Brake Buddy but occasionally on short trips I skipped installing the BB. Now I use a Invisibrake which works fine but I wish I had gone with Air Force One. Invisibrake doesn't fit under the seat but is on the floor of the back seat...ugh!
