A friend of mine recently bought a "Cardinal" and the salesman talked him into having a rack installed on the back of the unit. This rack was mounted by bolting a 2" receiver to the bumper then the rack has the 2" square piece that fits inside this. Much like a pickup truck ball mount. The salesman told him that this rack would carry 300 pounds of cargo with no problem. Well we decided to take a shake-down camping trip so I could help him learn about camping with a TT. After getting to the campgrounds which was a 90 mile trip we got him all set up. The next day as we were going over the little things he needed to know he noticed that the rack was drooping really bad. After looking at it we noticed that the bumper-you know, the 4" square tubular metal one, it was twisted in the middle where the rack was mounted. He had on the rack the spare tire, two ice chests filled with ice and two chairs. With all of this extended and bouncing down the road it had twisted the tubular bumper. The selling dealer is 100 miles from his home so he is going to call them about this. Yeah right, good luck
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