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It seems normal to me for a hitch. If I leave the pin out and push it all the way in it doesnt set off the sensors. I think I am going to drill a hole through it at the all the way in position and then let it ride there until I need to use it, and then slide it back to that original position.
If you aren't using it then the common sense answer would be to take it out and only put it in when needed.
I like leaving it in. Over the past 6 years been rear ended 4 times during morning rush hour. Haven't had any body damage . The ball usual stops after to goes through the thing cars radiator.
I like leaving it in. Over the past 6 years been rear ended 4 times during morning rush hour. Haven't had any body damage . The ball usual stops after to goes through the thing cars radiator.
Having had my shins bashed in more than once by innocently walking by a truck with a hitch in a parking lot, I'd ask you to reconsider.
Agreed, you have the right to leave it there, but I have the right to the skin on my shins.
In all honesty, if I see a hitch on a vehicle, I look to see if there's a locking pin. If not, the owner will find his hitch in the bed of his truck.
BTW, I tow. But the hitch comes off when the trailer gets unhooked. To me, it's common courtesy.
I just changed my bumper to a Westin HDX. My sensors have a steady beep now. The bumper has these triangle things that hold D-rings, I'm thinking that's what is setting them off but I'm not sure yet.
The sensors on my '18 go crazy when I have the WDH head in the hitch. They go off when I have the tow bar for the boat in. I just turn the beepers off out of habit now. If they don't go off, I start looking real close for anything in the way like something is wrong.
I would not appreciate someone removing my tow bar from the hitch, I would suggest they not walk so close to the back of pick up trucks, especially those that have tow bars mounted in the hitch.
Having had my shins bashed in more than once by innocently walking by a truck with a hitch in a parking lot, I'd ask you to reconsider.
Agreed, you have the right to leave it there, but I have the right to the skin on my shins.
In all honesty, if I see a hitch on a vehicle, I look to see if there's a locking pin. If not, the owner will find his hitch in the bed of his truck.
BTW, I tow. But the hitch comes off when the trailer gets unhooked. To me, it's common courtesy.
This is the very reason that I always use a locking pin. If you are barking your shins, you are walking too close to the truck, and/or not watching where you are going. The solution is not telling everyone else to remove their hitch. (I have always heard it said that "if everyone else has a problem, maybe the problem isn't everyone else.")
Not necessarily. In some states its illegal to keep the hitch in if it is not being used. I'm not sure of the reasoning behind those laws.
This "ball hitch" issue is yet another hyper-enforcement trick by the Police, to give them a reason to pull you over and do a drug investigation. Under the law, a license plate cannot be obstructed. Michigan's law MCL 257.225 provides in part "The plate shall be maintained free from foreign materials that obscure or partially obscure the registration information and in a clearly legible condition."... Thelicense plate cannot be obstructed law is a law in every State that I know of. Needless to say some States enforce it more than others.
06-23-2018, 03:23 PM
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