Something I didn't want to see...

[Pinstriper]

Oh, my.

[billmoore]

I see this in his future:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrpI01yegm8

[FastEddieB]

CanAm RV in London, Ontario specializes in this sort of thing:



Taken in Dec 2014 when we drove up to have them reinforce the receiver of our Flex to handle more tongue weight.

[kybrowns1]

CanAm RV in London, Ontario specializes in this sort of thing:



Taken in Dec 2014 when we drove up to have them reinforce the receiver of our Flex to handle more tongue weight.

I was about to mention the same thing. You beat me to it. I hear good things about their work. Mini Van upgrades is something they specialize in. Apparently they can turn a mini van into a towing machine.


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[FastEddieB]

The Flex has a max tongue weight of 450 lbs. My 21BHS loaded came in over 600 lbs. - a far cry from the 440 lbs that LivinLite advertised and led us to think the Flex was OK as a tow vehicle.

Andy, of CanAm, said he was surprised Ford could even allow 450 lbs. The stock receiver is just welded onto a portion of the unitized construction in the back - there's really no there there.

Before:



What they did was to add a large square bracket that runs forward from the hitch to the rear suspension, giving the weight distribution a more solid path to transfer the weight forward:

After:



Over 12,000 miles towing to date with no issues.