Please don't. It causes more damage to whatever you hit/hits you. Yeah, you back into something with a bare hitch? Now you're liable for increased damage.

Plus cars are already at a disadvantage if one has a collision with your lifted truck. Trailer hitches don't give like deforming bumpers do and having one on when you don't need it may cause additional injury to the other party--or even yourself, if you get rear-ended hard enough to screw up your back or your neck.

Just don't. Your anecdotal evidence doesn't say anything good about hitches except that they increase the damage that the other vehicle suffers.

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Posted by Dirty Rascal

BR/Nola

Member since Sep 2014

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Posted on 8/30/16 at 10:00 pm to just1dawg

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Posted by Cooter Davenport

Austin, TX

Member since Apr 2012

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Posted on 8/30/16 at 10:13 pm to just1dawg

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Plus cars are already at a disadvantage if one has a collision with your lifted truck

Good. Don't rear end people. The person hitting the other from behind is at fault and the person being hit has a right to as much protection from your dumb arse as possible.

Two cars have fricked themselves up on my hitch. Neither damaged my Tundra's frame. One had his radiator punctured, the other, who was high as a kite, just caved in her hood because she kinda slid under it a bit. In the first case, where the guy got his radiator busted, he actually tried to complain to the cop about my hitch. He said "My damage wouldn't be so bad if not for his hitch. Shouldn't that be illegal?" The cop's response was - I swear to God - "shite happens. Don't run into people."

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Posted by bulldog95

North Louisiana

Member since Jan 2011

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Posted on 8/30/16 at 10:57 pm to just1dawg

I've had mine in my truck since 2004. I've never backed into anyone and no one has ever rear ended me but I have rounded my truck without thinking and hello hitch meet mr shin.