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Old 11-28-2009, 07:42 AM   #16 (permalink)
thatguitarguy
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Originally Posted by Christ View Post
The rear of your car should be equipped with stiffeners that are integrated with the chassis... usually, the bumper rails are also located here. Hitches get hooked to those, not the subframe. A hitch should never be placed anywhere that will fatigue like that, it's purely unsafe.
It looks like the entire load of that trailer was on the rain gutters of a bug. I can visualize the rain gutters, maybe even the roof, being torn from the car going down the road at 70 MPH, the resulting chain reaction multi-car pileup, and the longer line of trial lawyers falling over each other from slipping on their own drool...

I wonder why this idea didn't take off, and why you don't see these things everywhere?
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