OEM Trailer Hitch

[Dark5yde]

Originally Posted by TerminatorX5

I am trying to figure out, why the BMW engineers have come up with SO MANY parts for the something that could have been accomplished with only one piece... They have no brain and probably suck as engineers...

I sure hope your post was in jest. As the 2 hitches look like vastly diff beasts and I would be willing to bet the smaller 1 piece would fail far sooner than the BMW OE piece. Besides that I like the ECS kit as it comes with all the wiring and harness for a plug and play. Sometimes more money for OE isnt worth it, but in this case towing a trailer and being confident in how it is attached is worth the extra cpl hundo. For me at least.

[TerminatorX5]

Originally Posted by Dark5yde

I sure hope your post was in jest. As the 2 hitches look like vastly diff beasts and I would be willing to bet the smaller 1 piece would fail far sooner than the BMW OE piece. Besides that I like the ECS kit as it comes with all the wiring and harness for a plug and play. Sometimes more money for OE isnt worth it, but in this case towing a trailer and being confident in how it is attached is worth the extra cpl hundo. For me at least.

I have nothing but the OE tow hitch on my E53s, even though, the maximum that I am towing, is just a bicycle rack (OE rack, BTW), which is a heavy thingy to begin with (thingy = scientific term, people go to college to learn that!!!)... once installed onto the car, that thingy does not bounce around (the bikes have wheels spinning)...