Thread: Mitchell Tow Hitch

Originally Posted by Mike&Loz

So tomorrow will be an attempt at a minor modification to bottom of that section of the bar with a calibrated 2kg lump hammer and see where that gets me.

Well it's in. A few whacks with the knockometer, a bit more grinding to make the hole in the rear bar bigger, a few choice words and my daughter hanging off the other spanner while I applied the appropriate amount of ham fistedness to tighten the bolts and voila. Done and dusted.

Bugger, bugger, bum, poop. The 12 pin plug casing cracked while "adjusting" the rear bar with the hammer. Off to Malz for a new one. THEN try and work out the best method for stopping the van LED lights from flashing. Time to call in some professional expertise here methinks.

Originally Posted by PCH

The reverse sensors take a bit of time to remove and rotate (maybe 20-30 mins)

A bit of fiddling and you can pop the inner parking sensors and then file a slot to then allow them to be rotated and pushed back in.
Chris

I'm also having some issues with the rear parking sensors after having a Mitchell Bros hitch fitted to my RRS. What exactly do I need to do to the sensors to adjust them? Do I have to change the angle of the sensor or rotate it or what?

Any help or step by step instructions would be much appreciated.

Many thanks,

Last night I connected our (new to us) 3,500 van and our Discovery 4. The van appears to sit about 2-3 inches above the Land Rover tow ball.
Land Rover said to connect the van and vehicle, and let the vehicle make the adjustments (my paraphrasing).

It has also been suggested by another dealer, that they have fitted the Mitchell hitch.

Could anyone comment on driving with or without the hitch? Would it be better to have it installed? Does the vehicle "like" it with the hitch on?

Best wishes
Bruce

HI Bruce,
I have the mitch hitch installed and whilst I only tow a light trailer the horizontal line through the trailer and vehicle were vastly improved over the original tow plow, oopps I mean hitch. I have a friend who tows a 3ton trailer dual axle trailer with his D3 and was very impressed with the improvement on the handling of the vehicle after he switched to the mitch. There are other options though such as the adjustable height tow ball.
I assume the 3500 refers to the weight of the trailer?
happy travels mate

Have a Mitch Hitch fitted to my d4 and tow an off road van at about 1.2t, the car and trailer perform as one and I would certainly go that way again if i started new. The interesting thing with my installation is that my reversing sensor required no adjustment, the only other thing to mention is that I fitted a Pulse buster to the trailer to overcome the led pulsing and have the car recognise that the trailer is attached.
The hitch performs well but the experience off having it fitted by the manuf. could have been a better one. cheers snowy