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redeyeksc Samba Member
Joined: October 14, 2012 Posts: 116 Location: guelph, ON
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Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2015 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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I'm wishing I had gone Burley after seeing this. My GW bumper and trailer hitch look like a noodle after carrying 4 bikes across the east coast. The way the GW hitch mounts to the vehicle is a joke. _________________ 84 Westfalia, now with Bostig Zetec 2.0L, Manual Transmission
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madspaniard Samba Member
Joined: August 18, 2008 Posts: 3795 Location: Alameda, CA
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Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2015 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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Howesight wrote: |
... there is a LOT of slack/adjustment room in the attachment points where the fibreglass bumper is fastened to the factory VW brackets. Every installation of Burley's excellent hitch will involve some fiddling with the notching in the fibreglass. His template has to be considered a guide. Measure five times, cut four . . . slowly. |
Absolutely correct and exactly word by word what I was going to say, this was also my experience when I installed mine a while ago. The hitch is really amazing, very very strong attachment to the van's frame. _________________ 1991 Westy auto w/ Peloquin TBD
"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad” - Salvador Dali |
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Vnyd Dog Samba Member
Joined: August 25, 2015 Posts: 384 Location: Napa
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Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2015 12:31 pm Post subject: |
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Can the Burley hitch be mounted onto/into an older style GW aftermarket steel bumper? The ones they did before offering the hitch? Has anyone done it or does it require too much cutting up of their bumper? |
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j_dirge Samba Member
Joined: August 08, 2007 Posts: 4641 Location: Twain Harte, CA
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Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2015 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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Vnyd Dog wrote: |
Can the Burley hitch be mounted onto/into an older style GW aftermarket steel bumper? The ones they did before offering the hitch? Has anyone done it or does it require too much cutting up of their bumper? |
I have not seen the GW bumper mounts..
Burley's hitch replaces the OEM VW bumpe brackets/mounts.. and the OEM bumper bolts onto/over the Burley hiitch brackets.
Can you take some pics of your GW bumper mount?
Where there's a will, there's a way. _________________ -89 GL Westy, SVX.. finally.
-57 pan f/g buggy with a 67 pancake Type 3 "S"
"Jimi Hendrix owned one. Richard Nixon did not"
-Grand Tour, Season 1, episodes 4 and 5
danfromsyr wrote: |
those are straight line runs with light weight race cars for only 1/4mile at a time..
not pushing a loaded brick up a mountain pass with a family of 4+ inside expecting to have an event free vacation..
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