Idiots that drive with hitch balls attached…

It’s the driver’s responsibility for however they configure their vehicle. Parking, backing, braking, or whatever. Trailer hitch-ball is irrelevant. In my rural community it’s rare to see a pickup truck without a hitch-ball.
 
I don't leave mine in as they are a PITA shin knocker.
I had a '89 S Blazer get hit while parked, BMW parked behind me got shoved into it by it getting hit. Ball mount did a job on the beemer, it made it into the crank pulley, but my frame got slightly tweaked from the impact. Only reason the mount was in was I stopped for something on my way to pick up a trailer.
Yeah its a bumper protector somewhat but the frame damage potential isn't worth just dealing with a bumper / sheet metal repair.
I got lucky on the frame, not bad enough for straightening but it was bent slightly. Incident was Ins. repaired. Bend was forward of the rear end under the back seat.
 
Our JL was rear ended by a URaBus. Zero damage to the JL but the offender was stuck with considerable damage including busted rad and complete coolant loss.

By the same logic employed in this thread, we should all have a rear-mounted spare on an aluminum tailgate and OEM plastic tire carrier :rolleyes:
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I'm one of those guys who drives with the hitch ball on my truck. If that make me an idiot, so be it. I was recently rear ended by a genius who was too busy texting to hit his brakes at a red light. If not for my hitch lining ball up with his bumper, my truck likely would have been damaged. As it was, all I got was a small scratch on my bumper- not bad enough to even worry about.
 
You not been properly angry until you've had a dude in a work/service truck back his vise into your wagon back window. In the winter. Raining. And leave. Glass all the way on the dash.

Thanks to the Napa owner, we got the guy. His boss paid but still I had to get back to work when it happened. Boss wondering where I was etc. Just not a happy place in my life at the time. CA 2010 give or take. Body shop was good though.
 
4wd said:
Tailgaters are why GON switches to the bully set … 😷
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I try to avoid driving in places that have tailgaters, and the density of traffic is robust, and drivers feel stressed to a point they are in a unnecessary hurry.

Maybe I am just getting old, having less obligations, and a better time manager than in my youth. I am very rarely in a hurry to get anywhere.
 
GON said:
I try to avoid driving in places that have tailgaters, and the density of traffic is robust, and drivers feel stressed to a point they are in a unnecessary hurry.

Maybe I am just getting old, having less obligations, and a better time manager than in my youth. I am very rarely in a hurry to get anywhere.
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Same
 
I owned a Nissan Pathfinder for a couple of years. It was my only vehicle at the time so I kept a hitch hauler mounted on it during deer season. A lady rammed it at a traffic light then got out and started yelling at me because she didn’t see it.
 
JHZR2 said:
My statement was the title and first line. Connected by the “…”

That said there’s no real reason to leave it in.
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You do not know that. I will routinely drop the float at places for static display and if I am picking up that day or the next I will leave it in. If I am camping I do not remove it and drive the truck to places I would like to go. I leave it installed.
 
You know I wanted to add, after I got the Caprice fixed from the scooter fire, a guy at work backed in to that bumper with his ball. I was able to buff most of it. He had no idea he had done it. I just happened to know his truck. I let it go, I understand how you feel, but the way some people are talking about it here is pure nonsense. It has more to do with the person. The Malibu has been hit and run twice, certainly not by someone with a hitch installed. If you hit it that is on you. If someone hits you that is on them. If you hit it and it is not moving? You were too close to it anyway.
 
Leave mine in on work trucks for the tailgaters saved me a few bumpers already

The look on thier faces is nearly worth the risk
 
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