New Lance 1575--first ever travel trailer! WDH questions

[jtludwig]

Good Evening,

I've just purchased my first travel trailer, a Lance 1575. Hopefully it will serve my young family well.

For a variety of reasons, I have decided to not have the Lance dealer install the hitch on my small SUV, and to use a hitch shop that's much closer to where I live (Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA). I feel like they are using the hitch install to make up for the lower price that I negotiated on the trailer. They also keep saying things like "you'll have to ask the service department about that" or you'll "have to ask sales"...they are the same business...so why am I the middleman?

The Lance dealer wanted to install an E2 hitch, or something like that, but I'd like to use a Reese WDH from the local shop.

So anyways enough venting...My questions are...the Lance dealer said that due to the "unique" frame on the 1575, that I would need some "special" brackets that cost $150.00. What are they talking about? Is this unique to the E2 hitch, or true with other brands as well (like Reese)? I don't want to show up to pick up the trailer and be missing some sort of vital equipment.

Thanks for the help...I have experience towing around boats...but zero knowledge of travel trailers and weight distributing hitches.

BTW..I already have a proportional brake controller and 7-pin connector so I think I'm good from that angle.

--Jason

[WoodGlue]

#40Fan wrote:
In before Woodglue.

Just barely! LOL

The e2 hitch is an excellent choice for your 1575 and you may need brackets. I have a trunion style.

Cruise on over to LOA and ask the experts who own lots of 1575's

Lance Owners of America

BTW, I'm towing a 1685 w/o the brackets!

WoodGlue

[4aSong]

I use my eaz-lift hitch with the chains. The dealer tried to sell me an E2 hitch and said special brackets are needed for the Lance Trailer (somewhere around 100.00 to 150.00 for the brackets) but this is not the case as my eaz-lift hitch has been functioning fine.

[_40Fan]

In before Woodglue.

[cmack]

Sounds like scam to get more $$$ out of you. Call the manufacturer of the hitch and ask. I don't know the Lance frame but I have read somewhere the 1575 has a tapered frame that makes clamp-on brackets hard to stay put. My Equal-i-zer brackets slipped in the beginning because I didn't get them tight enough. Some people tack weld them in place or even through bolt them.