trailer hitch on 05?
04-03-2005, 04:11 AM
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RE: trailer hitch on 05?
I'm also very curious if there is or will be any sort of hidden hitch for the 05. I am NOT wanting to pull anything and I DO have a truck. I would like to use my bike rack with the stang for traveling to/from going mountain biking each weekend. The stang gets better milage and is a hell of a lot more fun to drive. I only drive the truck when there's snow on the ground.
I would not dare cut any part of the rear, but I would simply like to find or just make my own hidden hitch assembly that I can use to haul the bike so I don't have to drive my crappy truck all the time.
I would not dare cut any part of the rear, but I would simply like to find or just make my own hidden hitch assembly that I can use to haul the bike so I don't have to drive my crappy truck all the time.
04-06-2005, 05:21 PM
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RE: trailer hitch on 05?
Well with the class 2 hitch on my Alero, the receiver slides in and is held with a pin, so when I take it out, all you can see is the square metal box, which doesn't really stick out. Hoping the class 1 is the same. The receiver will pop up well underneath the bumper so you won't cut any part of the car. A car hitch brace looks like an H or h and wraps around the gas tank, bolting underneath to the subframe, drilling 3 or 4 places underneath, but not usually drilling thru to interior of the trunk or anything.
04-06-2005, 08:27 PM
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RE: trailer hitch on 05?
Hidden Hitch and Reese both have the 05 hitch in development. I'm on the waiting list for both. I wanted one on the day I drove off the lot and am impatiently waiting. While others may make trailer park remarks, I say why not have even more practical capabilities. I commute every day of the week in mine. My M/C trailer will be just as happy behind a great car as it is behind a crap truck. And there is no trash in my back seat. Too bad Whitey McBitch can't say the same about his FRONT seat.
04-06-2005, 09:16 PM
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RE: trailer hitch on 05?
I was thinking of adding a trailer hitch to my Mustang because the carrier I use for my mountain bike is designed to fit into the hitch. And yes I would agree that a Mustang pulling a jetski would look cool.
04-07-2005, 04:58 AM
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RE: trailer hitch on 05?
ORIGINAL: 281GT
And yes I would agree that a Mustang pulling a jetski would look cool.
And yes I would agree that a Mustang pulling a jetski would look cool.
And yes I see this happen often enough...
04-07-2005, 07:23 AM
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RE: trailer hitch on 05?
I saw that happen with a truck believe it or not. It could not pull an empty trailer out of the water. I think he put it in way too far so the rear tires had no traction on the moss that makes it slippery as ice there.
04-07-2005, 10:06 AM
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RE: trailer hitch on 05?
Yeah sure.. that will happenn with ANY Rear 2WD vehicle...
I go to the lake to put in the 30' Rinker Cabin Cruiser and some Ahole with a 2WD is stuck and needs to be towed out... [:@] wasting everyones time because he doesn't have the BRAINS to be using a 4WD utility vehicle to be towing things around...
Pure Genius...
I go to the lake to put in the 30' Rinker Cabin Cruiser and some Ahole with a 2WD is stuck and needs to be towed out... [:@] wasting everyones time because he doesn't have the BRAINS to be using a 4WD utility vehicle to be towing things around...
Pure Genius...