Thread: Mitchell Bros. Hitch

Is There any way you can tell which version you have? I bought mine from Davis about 6 months ago, but no idea how long it had been in their stock.

Originally Posted by AnD3rew

Is There any way you can tell which version you have? I bought mine from Davis about 6 months ago, but no idea how long it had been in their stock.

Look at the diameter of the bolt going through the original recovery point

Originally Posted by Burmo

Need some information regarding Mitchell Bros. Hitch on our recent holidays we were towing our off road caravan with our Discovery 4 which had been fiited with a mitchell bros. hitch our caravan weigh is 3200kg and the mitchell bros hitch is rated at 3500kg as we were towing our van the bolt in the hitch snap in half the hitch fell down off the vehicle and the caravan was on the ground. has anyone had any problem with these hitches.

It would be very nice if the original poster got back to us all instead of leaving us in limbo as to which bolt snapped.......It is after all his first post and for something that quite a lot of us are currently using, this is of serious concern and if correct needs to be brought to the attention of Mitchell Brothers and for those of us with one for the potential problem to be rectified.

Yep - it would be nice to have a bit more info re the break, and some photos of same. This is a very important piece of equipment for us who tow and I'd certainly like to know more...
cheers

Agree with above comments. I just checked the bolt on my MH and it barely measures 12mm (fitted to my D3 in early 2010). Does not appear bent (yet) but max weight of my offroad camper is 1800kg so maybe just lucky. Will definitely be inquiring about upgrade kit though. David

If the original bolt is an issue you should not have to buy a $100 kit - it should be corrected free of charge as a safety issue by the manufacturers - after all the original hitch does have to meet ADR compliance requirements for a 3500kg bar and doesn't seem too.

Garry

Originally Posted by Burmo

Need some information regarding Mitchell Bros. Hitch on our recent holidays we were towing our off road caravan with our Discovery 4 which had been fiited with a mitchell bros. hitch our caravan weigh is 3200kg and the mitchell bros hitch is rated at 3500kg as we were towing our van the bolt in the hitch snap in half the hitch fell down off the vehicle and the caravan was on the ground. has anyone had any problem with these hitches.

I'd be interested to get more details (including photo's if possible) on this as well as it doesn't sound 100% right.

I have a early MH that needed the new bolt kit fitting after the original bolt bent from towing our 2.5 ton off road on some pretty rough tracks, however I had bought it second hand and found out later that I should have replaced the spacer before fitting it so I must accept some blame for it failing. All it did was come loose though and bend down about 10 mm from standard and it was very obvious to see.

As Tombie said it has three bolts so what happened to the other two bolts, there is no mention of these failing and they would have had to fail for it to fall off. So we need much more information before trying to come to any conclusions.

cheers,
Terry

Guys... Stop making a mountain out of a molehill.

Yes, the bolt has been upgraded in the new ones.
Yes a kit is available.

However, this is a single event, not a common one..
Lets keep some perspective hey!?

After all, a wheel falling off is more likely...