Quality gear?????

All gear can fail. Our hope is name brands bring more than just a higher price tag.

In a desert wash yesterday I found this ALREADY BROKEN WHEN I FOUND IT 2" receiver recovery point. Clearly broken at the weak point.
Buy good gear and hopefully this wont be you.
put on the truck just for the picture.

 

Are you asking about which gear to buy or just making a PSA?

 

PSA.
No brand markings.

It clearly broke quickly on the upper side, then slower on the bottom as the part ripped away from the main body.

 

You found a broken part and put it on your truck?
Or
You bought it and broke it, but just found out?

 

His edit with all caps really drives the point home.

 

maybe try putting it in when you need it and not driving around with it on all the time.

 

OP I like your mobtown hidden hitch. They’re awesome.

 

how can I worry about it getting stolen then?

I just hope the piece didnt hurt anyone. They obviously got out, but how long did it take? Was about 108* out there yesterday.

 

I love the thing. 99.9% license plate holder, .1% winch mount/recovery points. Quite stout and mounts solidly. I've done a couple very heavy pulls with it.

 

But then how will people know I offroad man?!?!?!

 

Put a big tacoma beast sticker on your windshield

 

Nice that they took the time to leave it behind.

Clearly catastrophic failure on the casting, quality goes in before the name goes on...

 

How do you know this isn't a "quality brand"? Do only "quality brands" stamp their hitches? I can't think of ever seeing any brand not using a sticker of some sort.
Genuine question.

 

my 1st post says "buy quality and hopefully this wont be you" which implies that even quality brands have bad batches.
my 2nd post says "no brand markings"

I'm unaware if any brand does mark them with stamping.

A forged part will be stronger than a cast part. That one was obviously cast as shown by the grain in the failure areas.
A known quality brand has a lot to risk if selling bad parts. Reputation is so important in the internet age. This means most, if not all, good companies will spend the money to build it right. That means it will cost more to the customer.

 

These have a load rating on them when purchased, most are only in the 10k range. its not hard to exceed 10k when pulling a vehicle out of a situation using something like a kinetic

 

sadly a lot of people think "if it fits it ships" applies to recovery gear too.