Anderson wd hitch no longer offered--why?

[yardsale]

We used ours matched with the Rav 4 without incident for a few years now. Will try it without now that we have a Colorado. Wondering why ETI went away from this option?

[rbryan4]

There were complaints about the material coming out of the cone that the ball pin sits in I believe. I think that issue was resolved in later hitches because weve had zero issues with ours.

[yardsale]

Right, that did happen to us but they fixed it.

[steve dunham]

Originally Posted by yardsale

We used ours matched with the Rav 4 without incident for a few years now. Will try it without now that we have a Colorado. Wondering why ETI went away from this option?

The small local RV shop in our area sold / installed Anderson WDH for several years but recently dropped the line . Joe ( The Owner ) said they dropped the Anderson Line because there were other WDH's on the market that worked as well or better at a lower cost and secondly they were experiencing too many customer complaints with the Anderson WDH.
Whether this is the truth or a pile of BS , I have no way of knowing but it may be the reason for Escape dropping the Anderson line.

[Loren & Cathy]

When we picked up our trailer in Sept. of 2015, we were told that the Anderson on our trailer was one of the last that ETI would be installing. I had the cone go bad yet that fall in Iowa but Anderson promptly sent a replacement, I had to take it to a machine shop and they put it in their shop press to get it back together. No problems since. Loren

[BCnomad]

Ross had issues, one of which is here:
http://www.escapeforum.org/forums/f1...pler-8227.html


Some other threads, that I didn't peruse to qualify them:
http://www.escapeforum.org/forums/f1...ment-6582.html

http://www.escapeforum.org/forums/f1...ssue-5910.html





For me personally, nice to have the option of slapping on the Andersen, but I don't use it under normal circumstances.