ALERT: Check Those Blue Ox Towbars !

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All:

For everybody using the Blue Ox Tow Bar System, especially the aluminum ones, check them.

Coming into Waycross, Georgia last week, my 20 yo aluminum Blue Ox suffered a broken left arm. My toad, a 2001 Honda CRV "attempted" to pass me on the right. I was inside the city limits moving in traffic at about 30-35 MPH. The toad never separated but did cause minor damage to the right bottom rear of my rear coach bumper. I was able to pull over into a large parking lot. The broken arm was snapped half into with the stump dragging on the pavement.

I had to leave my Toad in Waycross and drove on to Perry, Georgia. So happened the FMCA Rally was going on there and Blue Ox had a team there. Called them and within two hours they brought me a brand new steel one.

The techs recommended replacement or rebuild on their products ever 8-10 years and periodic maintenance every 6 to 12 months.

As reliable as Blue Ox tow bars are, we become complacent and take them for granted. The techs did suggest that for big coaches and toads, don't use the aluminum product.

THEY WILL BREAK AND ON THE HIGHWAY AT HIGHWAY SPEEDS, ONE'S TOAD MAY SEPARATE AND CAUSE DAMAGE, INJURIES AND FATALITIES.

DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU!