Thread: Mitch Hitch

This is the mob who sell them.


Welcome to Mitchell Bros - 4x4 & more - Sydney, New South Wales Australia

I'm having the same issue tying to order one, all the links go to dead pages ?


To clarify that, the online store button on their home page goes to a dead page

I recently purchased a secondhand one from this forum but was previously trying to get a new one without success and had my name with a couple of 3rd party LR specialists.

I was advised just last week by British Off Road (Sunshine Coast, QLD) that they have now sourced some from a new wholesaler. I think perhaps the rights to manufacture may have been passed on by Mitchells but this is only my guess.

Anyway, British Off Road indicated that they will have 10 hitches on 5th January (I think that was the date he said) so I guess other places in other states will be in the same boat.

Cheers,
Scott

Thanks very much for the heads up on this Scott, it is the answer to my issue with getting the van and the hitch on the car to match up


Have placed an order via email, will see if I have got in soon enough to get one


Cheers
Peter

Originally Posted by Peteren

Thanks very much for the heads up on this Scott, it is the answer to my issue with getting the van and the hitch on the car to match up


Have placed an order via email, will see if I have got in soon enough to get one


Cheers
Peter

Peter,for a van,you SHOULD be able to invert a normal hitch to gain the height,it even points this out in the handbook if I recall.
The Mitch Hitches come into play for off-road camper trailers,I doubt I could invert a hitch and still get my camper trailer to ride level.I have a tourist stop behind my place,seems the norm to run a towbar upside down on a D4 with caravans(checked a fair few out).D3's are a different story,their hitch is lower again.
Its not recommended to use any load hitch,the air suspension and electronics look after that well.
Andrew

Not quite that easy Andrew, the hitch on our van is 640mm high. An inverted standard tongue comes nowhere near.

About EXACTLY the issue I have
Andrew

Thanks for the replies gents. I've had probs like everyone else it seems. At least now we have a bit of an idea what's going on. I get my Disco in March and I don't want to fit the "plough"