Husky Liners 32216 Center Line TS with Spring Bars - 400 lb. to 600 lb. Tongue Weight Capacity (2-5/16" Ball) For Trailer

4 stars not due to how well it works, but how heavy it is. This is overkill for small or even middle sized trailers.Let me start by saying it is a very good hitch. However, it is a one size fits all. That means it is the exact same base parts for a 500 lb hitch as it is for 10,000 lbs! It weighs about 150 lbs! That comes off the hitch capacity of the vehicle. Nothing on this is hollow. All solid iron. My trailer is 3,500 lbs and tongue weight is only 420 lbs. I have the 400-600 lb spring bar version.Due to all that capacity, the hitch needs very tight bolts, and they are HUGE bolts! 15/16 and 1 1/4" bolt heads. 2 of them are supposed to be set to 380 foot lbs! That is a LOT. I am sure that is for when you are going for 10,000 lbs and not for a 3,500 lb trailer. I am pretty sure I can't do that much, but I will get with a friend in a couple of weeks who has a bar long enough to get to that tightness.The clamps for the spring bars on the trailer are next. 28.5-30.5" away from the center of the ball. On the passenger side, that was not problem. I even had the right tools! On the drivers side however, no way it was easy. The cable for the 7 pin connector has a support mount right there and the emergency brake pull thing was also there. I remove them both and install the clamp. Easy enough. I decide to not put a screw in for the cable, and use a tie wrap instead. Not as neat and tidy, but fully functional and easy to move it if I have to again.The pull cable on the emergency brake pin was kind of short to begin with so I moved the whole thing forward of the clamp. The self tapping screw is intact. I put some silicone in the old hole to plug it. The screw goes right in the the box is easily remounted. The cable reaches the hatch on the tow vehicle much better now too. I am not afraid it will pull on a short turn. I had to splice some extra wire to it now that is is moved forward. That was not too hard of an additional job.Time to hitch up and go for a test drive. The spring bars, called Trunions, have to be close to the "L" on the bottom of the clamps on the trailer. To do this, you hitch the trailer up and use the trailer jack to lift both the trailer and back of the tow vehicle up until the bars are close to the clamps. 2 problems! First, I am not sure this jack is rated to lift both! Problem 2 is the jack doesn't go that high. Grrrr. I pull the tow vehicle ahead and remove the heavy hitch and put a simple 2" hitch on instead. Back up and lower the trailer on the 2" hitch. Raise the jack until it is 6" above the ground. I look around and can only find 2"x4" pieces. I really want something wider and more stable. Something else to get before we use this thing for real. For now 3 2x4's stacked will have to do. They will give me the 5" more I need on the jack. Jack the trailer back up, pull the tow vehicle ahead and put the heavy hitch back on.Now I can jack it all high enough to put the spring bars on. Scary process! They are really loaded. The tool does help, but it has so many "hooks" on it to push and pull and slide and what ever else. I figure out the right hook and place to put it and get the bars on. I lower the trailer and measure the height of the 3 places the instructions say to look at. I am within 1/2" of before install, so that is good. It is doing it's job right.I get everything put away and do a test drive around the "block". OK, not just a block, but more like 4-5 miles. I head for the nearest round about thinking that is a good test of the sway bars. It is a bit windy, so I get to see how that feels. There is some sway, but not much.That hitch is so heavy I decide to drive the tow vehicle to the shed instead of carrying it alone. Even carrying it in the shed from the doorway to find a place to store it was a task. It is not very balanced and not many places to hold it. Bulky and heavy. Not user friendly!So, I do not hate the Husky hitch. But it is very much overkill for my application. All that weight is a negative. I don't know if other brands are the same weight. I can't imagine they would be.

even though my camper is single ax, 3k pounds, it was still stressful with wind or passing traffic with an F 150, put this on and it was a game changer, I don't bother with many reviews, and don't go to excess in verbiage, but, this is money well spent

This is my first weight distributing hitch with sway control so I can't directly compare it to the other styles. However I'll comment on a few things that I would have liked to have known when I was making my decision.Noise - This is a lot noisier than I expected. Once the smooth painted coating wears off you get a lot of loud groaning sounds when you're maneuvering. I don't how the noise compares to the chain Style hitches but I do know that even those are known to be somewhat noisy. That being said, the groaning is well worth the convenience of not needing to get out and remove a separate sway control bracket before tight maneuvers or backing up, plus it's pretty much silent for the majority of driving conditions.Sway control - I didn't really have any issues with actual sway beforehand, but it does generally feel more confidence and stable.Ease of use - These probably require a little bit more strength to set up then the other styles based on my research. Connecting the trailer to the ball and then lifting it back up with the back of the car attached lines up the spring so you don't have to pull up very hard, but it does take some effort to push and pull the bars towards and away from the trailer once the smooth coating wears off the anti-sway surfaces. I'm 220lbs and find myself slipping in the dirt sometimes trying to nudge them over. I'll probably get a rubber mallet or dead blow hammer going forward. Also the tool they Supply is much easier to use if you don't put it together. I only slip the handle on after I get started because it's too long to get underneath properly with the height of my trailer.For reference I'm using the 600lb spring bars on a 20' camper with a max tongue weight of 485lbs pulled behind a Q5. I've also got an anti rattle J pin for the hitch that tightens down to prevent side to side movement. I also didn't have much sag before installing this so it looks a little overcompensated, but it's empty in the photo and It should sit level and be much more helpful once I load it up with goodies. All in all I'm very happy with this hitch, but for how much you can find these selling used it was hard to swallow paying the new price.

Great product ! Dint try it but easy install