Worse… aluminum is not malleable like steel. A (rather destructive) youtuber found that simply trying to do a kinetic recovery is enough to rip the frame off at the hitch mount. Not the hitch mount. The frame behind it. A good pothole hitting your trailer’s wheels can rip the frame off.
The same youtuber then showed how a truck with a steel frame will not rip apart by getting bumped, by dropping an F150 10ft onto a rock ledge on its hitch 100 times in a row doesn’t rip the frame off. It bends the frame eventually, but it doesn’t rip it apart.
Worse… aluminum is not malleable like steel. A (rather destructive) youtuber found that simply trying to do a kinetic recovery is enough to rip the frame off at the hitch mount. Not the hitch mount. The frame behind it. A good pothole hitting your trailer’s wheels can rip the frame off.
The same youtuber then showed how a truck with a steel frame will not rip apart by getting bumped, by dropping an F150 10ft onto a rock ledge on its hitch 100 times in a row doesn’t rip the frame off. It bends the frame eventually, but it doesn’t rip it apart.