B&W tow and stow and rear parking sensors?

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Will the tow and stow set off the parking sensors? I’d like to have one but I still want to keep my sensors on.


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I know it’s not the same hitch but I leave my adjustable 6 inch drop WeighSafe hitch in all the time except for winter and it doesn’t interfere with my backup sensors.


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Ok sounds good. What hitch do you have? Part number?


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Ok sounds good. What hitch do you have? Part number?


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The WeighSafe WS6-2 is what I have but if your 2500 has the 2.5” receiver tube, you’ll need the one for that.

Are you looking to get one of these receiver hitches? I don’t mean to slightly reroute your thread but if you are and if you’re interested, you could save a little bit of money and just buy the drawbar and lock pin new, and I have a used 180° flip slider that has the 2 inch stainless steel ball on one end and a 2-5/16ths ball on the other end for a little bit cheaper than buying the complete set brand new.

I originally bought the 6 inch drop 180° hitch but since my halfton isn’t as tall in the back, and when I have the slider all the way down in the 6” drop position, I have a slight ground clearance issue because the other ball is on the bottom making it closer to the ground so I bought the other slider, the one that just uses one ball at a time because it has the scale built into it for measuring tongue weight but since I’ll never be hauling anything that heavy where tongue weight will be an issue, I just bought that other slider for increased ground clearance.

The bigger ball has never been used and the only trailer I pull is a little 10 foot utility trailer that hauls around my mower so that 12,500 pound hitch has never even been fully broke in. Lol.


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Thanks for the info. I’m just looking at options and I liked the stow and go hitch setup. But I’ll look into the weigh safe hitch too. I do haul a travel trailer and the scale would come in handy.


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Thanks for the info. I’m just looking at options and I liked the stow and go hitch setup. But I’ll look into the weigh safe hitch too. I do haul a travel trailer and the scale would come in handy.


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I can respect that but if you think about it- which it may be different for someone pulling something that heavy with a three quarter-ton pickup but I would think that no matter what your tow vehicle is, if you’re pulling something where tongue weight is that heavy, like with a travel trailer that you’re probably better off just using an actual weight-distribution hitch instead of just a regular drop hitch but I dunno. At least that’s the case with my half-ton and it even has the self-leveling air suspension.

But yeah, I almost bought the B&W Tow and Stow but I figured an aluminum hitch would be better against rusting than a steel one and after all the B&W hitches I’ve seen on the back of people’s trucks, that black coating don’t take long to get wore off and the exposed steel starts to rust. That, and having those three pins to mess with that aren’t even locking pins. The fact that you can get that in a tri-ball hitch is nice but really, how many people need a 1-7/8ths ball anymore?...lol. That hitch sure does rattle, too. My WeighSafe just has the one moving part which is where the slider locks onto the drawbar. It would also rattle inside the receiver tube as well but I run a hitch-tightener that takes that slop out. Plus, it cuts down on the wear on that aluminum shank and since I put special cone-shaped security nuts on it that require a special socket to tighten them/remove them, it also acts as another line of theft protection if someone were to successfully bust off my hitch pin.

But anywho, they’re both good hitches. Lemmie know if your interested in my offer if you do go with a WS.


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The WeighSafe WS6-2 is what I have but if your 2500 has the 2.5” receiver tube, you’ll need the one for that.

Are you looking to get one of these receiver hitches? I don’t mean to slightly reroute your thread but if you are and if you’re interested, you could save a little bit of money and just buy the drawbar and lock pin new, and I have a used 180° flip slider that has the 2 inch stainless steel ball on one end and a 2-5/16ths ball on the other end for a little bit cheaper than buying the complete set brand new.

I originally bought the 6 inch drop 180° hitch but since my halfton isn’t as tall in the back, and when I have the slider all the way down in the 6” drop position, I have a slight ground clearance issue because the other ball is on the bottom making it closer to the ground so I bought the other slider, the one that just uses one ball at a time because it has the scale built into it for measuring tongue weight but since I’ll never be hauling anything that heavy where tongue weight will be an issue, I just bought that other slider for increased ground clearance.

The bigger ball has never been used and the only trailer I pull is a little 10 foot utility trailer that hauls around my mower so that 12,500 pound hitch has never even been fully broke in. Lol.


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Just looked it up. Looks nice and I didn’t know you could move it like the B&W. How much do you want for it?


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Just looked it up. Looks nice and I didn’t know you could move it like the B&W. How much do you want for it?


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If you were to buy all that I have that I’m selling brand new- the 180° slider, the stainless steel double-ended 2 inch and 2-5/16ths ball and the little pin that keeps the ball in the slider, will run you $135 bucks without tax and I’m currently trying to sell all of that above minus my double slider pin that secures the slider to the drawbar and the drawbar itself for a hundred bucks shipped. You’d still have to buy the draw bar new which depending on what size your receiver tube is and whether you want the 4”, 6”, 8” or 10” drop- if you got say, the 2.5 inch shank and say, the 6 inch drop drawbar, you’re looking at a hundred bucks for that and about 20 bucks for the new lock pin so, $220 total this way vs 260 bucks for a whole complete brand new complete 6 inch hitch kit for a 2.5 inch receiver without tax.

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I have a BW 2 inch shank, it’s a three ball one tow and stow. I find that As long as I have it “stowed” it sets off no alerts when I’m backing up, but when it’s not stowed it will set off the back up alert when I’m in reverse. Hope this helps, I like mine. I’d rather a two inch than the 2.5, because I can use it on other vehicles if I need too.
 

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I have a BW 2 inch shank, it’s a three ball one tow and stow. I find that As long as I have it “stowed” it sets off no alerts when I’m backing up, but when it’s not stowed it will set off the back up alert when I’m in reverse. Hope this helps, I like mine. I’d rather a two inch than the 2.5, because I can use it on other vehicles if I need too.

Really? Hmm. I wonder if it’s because yours is steel and mine’s aluminum? Granted, here lately I keep my slider pretty low since my trailer in order to ride level needs the full six inches of drop but even when I’ve had the slider half way up the drawbar, my backup sensors don’t even detect it. Only when I have a trailer coupled is when I pretty much have to turn the rear park sense off.


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Oh and OP, just because the weight engraving on that 2-5/16ths ball of mine says it’s for 10,000 pounds, it’s actually rated for 12,500 pounds if the drawbar it’s mounted to has the 2 inch shank. If your receiver is the 2.5 inch shank, it’ll actually be rated at 18,500 pounds. I just got off weighsafe’s tech support asking about that and they said their hitches haven’t changed but due to new testing procedures, they upped the weight ratings. The 2 inch ball however is still rated at 8000 pounds.


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I have one of the Weigh Safe hitches, and if it is not in the stowed position, it will set off the back up alarm sensors.
 

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I have one of the Weigh Safe hitches, and if it is not in the stowed position, it will set off the back up alarm sensors.

Wow. That’s two...lol. Again, mine don’t do that.


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Wow. That’s two...lol. Again, mine don’t do that.


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With my truck, the two middle sensor are pretty much right on each side of the receiver hitch.
 

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If it is not stowed those two sensors pick it up and sets it off3dc5d2c081f8940ff4ee1540ec25f70a.jpg09c6c3eb0ffaaf0d54ca5b660779f5b9.jpg

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If it is not stowed those two sensors pick it up and sets it off3dc5d2c081f8940ff4ee1540ec25f70a.jpg09c6c3eb0ffaaf0d54ca5b660779f5b9.jpg

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Ah, ok. That actually makes sense now. My truck, I’m assuming because of the older body style, the inside backup sensors are actually up on the face of the bumper in the middle of it right next to the license plate lights that aren’t as close to the hitch like y’all’s is so maybe that’s why I don’t have to turn my slider around, take the whole hitch out or turn my rear park sense off.

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Yea there is a difference in the 1500s and the 2500/3500 sensors, prolly why you aren’t getting that alert.
 

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Yea there is a difference in the 1500s and the 2500/3500 sensors, prolly why you aren’t getting that alert.

Actually there’s not, the rear bumpers are virtually the same, the sensors are all in the same place between the two. It’s actually the new body style that’s causing the problem because they put the inboard sensors closer together and lower on the bumper.


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Actually there’s not, the rear bumpers are virtually the same, the sensors are all in the same place between the two. It’s actually the new body style that’s causing the problem because they put the inboard sensors closer together and lower on the bumper.


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Incorrect...Lmao, you’re like my son who will argue with a fence post as long as it stands there long enough to listen!

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Incorrect...Lmao, your like my son who will argue with a fence post as long as it stands there long enough to listen!

yes there is a difference in the placement.

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Whatever Mr. Technical, so what if the placement of the sensor is just a wee bit different between the new 1500s and the 2500/3500s but the main fact that still remains, is that ALL... the newer body-style’s rear sensors are still mounted on the bottom of the bumper rather than up on the face of the bumper like they are on my older body-style truck.

Who knows, maybe this problem is only exclusive to the newer-style HDs bein’ that the middle two inboard sensors are a lot closer to the hitch than the half-tons.

Thank you sir, for making that moot point.


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