Class III or IV???

[UNSANE]

I have a 29 Fountain on the way with an aluminum trailer. How much estimated total weight am I looking at? My Titan is rated to pull 9200 lbs, so I think I'm good (I'm guess a max of 7500 to 8000). Right now I have a Class III hitch, it is setup for a Class IV. My question is do I need to spend the 300 or so dollars for a Class IV with the weight distro bars? Some people say that Class III tops out at 5000, others say 7500. I've never used a IV hitch before and it looks like to me I would have trouble finding a place on the trailer to hook up the chains from the weight distro bars. Do I have another option? Trying to be safe with a very expensive piece of hardware. Thanks in advance.

[wrinkleface]

Never heard anybody complain for having to heavy duty of a hitch! Also do not C many boaters use w/d set ups w/ boats. Good tongue weight and very good trailer brakes will B very important. Good luck, Wrink

[Von Bongo]

It depends as not all class III and IV hitches are rated at the same weight. If you have surge brakes you can't use weight distribute.

I would say Class IV with an appropriate rating for non distributing for the weight your are towing.

[UNSANE]

I do have surge brakes. So there's a Class IV out there that looks just like my Class III, just a higher rating???

[Donzi38ZX]

Originally Posted by UNSANE

I do have surge brakes. So there's a Class IV out there that looks just like my Class III, just a higher rating???

Yes, You can put your vehicle info in one of several sites and it will show your hitch options and the load ratings. www.etrailer.com has this. BTW I have not ordered from them, just used their configurator.

[BZ]

class V

[Viper31]

Like Bob Zubic says, go with Class 5 and buy grade 8 bolts instead of using the ones that come with the hitch. Cheap Insurance and very little extra $

[Sydwayz]

http://www.putnamhitch.com/

I have a Putnam XDR Class-V hitch on my truck. Not sure about what they offer for a metric truck though.


Check out this thread below. It has several trailer hitch websites mentioned:
http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=78812

[RollWithIt]

We have a Class V reciever on our one work truck that has a 15k weight rating. You just have to check the rating on the hitches. Cause they are not all the same. A class IV should work for you. Make sure you check the rating on hitch and ball also. I have a 10k set up for my boat. The shank thickness on the ball makes the difference. And the hitch is solid steel.

[RollWithIt]

Brian, the one Im talking about is the same one from XDR that you have. We recently had an incident with ours. The dumpgate was sitting on top of the ball/pintle when an employee tried to dump about 2 thousand pounds of debris. It bent the reciever. But it never failed. Welds and bolts held. It actually bent the frame of the truck. So if a hydraulic ram and 2k of weight with a direct downforce wont break the reciever, its good enough to tow a boat.