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Someone's not thinking. The removable hitch mounts into a steel receiver, made out of the same material and mount below the bumper. Does exactly the same damage 6 inches further away.
Yep, but that’s also 6 more inches to get through until the bumper. The problem being it removes the crumple zone the bumper has and makes the force entirely in your frame instead. It will also almost always hit the radiator of the vehicle hitting them doing significant damage.
They leave it there as assholes, while also not actually protecting their own vehicle, other than cosmetically, they’ll do more structural damage instead.
Hence the moron part.
Hey now. Alberta has a ton of morons, and slightly more than their fair share of assholes. But Hanlon's razor* still applies. I don't think anybody put a hitch on their truck with the express intent of causing harm somewhere. They are more likely just stupid and/or lazy.
* "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
In other words: some bad things happen not because of people having bad intentions, but because they did not think it through properly. Or at all.
No… I’ve had truck owners ask me why I don’t leave mine on to protect my truck or make it worse for others. I just roll my eyes and walk away, because you can’t reason with them, like what’s happening in the comment chain here.
Also comes down to monkey see monkey do too I find.
Fair enough. I lived there long enough to know that some of them definitely did it purely out of spite, I just can't imagine it is a majority.
Yep sorry didn’t mean to imply all/majority, just provide some insight. I used to work construction for commercial industrial general contractor. I saw ALL types in the various industries and businesses we dealt with and the range of contractors we used as well.
Lots of perspectives while having to “break bread” with some of them.
I’ve forgotten to take my ball off before, it happens, no one is immaculate.
It still has to travel through 6” of towball before hitting the bumper, so it saves that cosmetic damage.
The hell is with the insults?
Edit, oh you’re on of those people that think the tow ball protects your truck from damage, which it doesn’t. Hence you thinking I was insulting you in my original comment.
So a better example would be, you would get damaged if the vehicle stopped 2” short of your bumper, since you have something g attached to your frame sticking 6”. Does that makes sense to you now? I can provide a picture to show the differences with and without a towball on a bumper.
Im not feeling insulted, why are you suggesting that? I said the hell is with the insults, which you did use, or do you not understand the definitions of some of the words you used?
Good job not being a stereotypical truck owner lmfao. You are the reason why the rest of us who actually have work trucks get in shit, because you think a tow ball protects your truck from damage… when it’s an 6” for someone to hit when they could have stopped short….
So yeah, throw some more insults, that’ll show non-truck owners who we really are.
So you do need that diagram don’t you? If the answer isn’t yes/no I’m going to block you.