(Heading changed)Cheap Chinese Poly Hitch Failure (PICS NOW UP)

[Jeepers Creepers]

This morning, i was about to head off and pick up our CT from where i keep it to bring it home and give the bearings etc a once over.

I'd had the treg hitch off during the week, so just to be sure it was all good, i put a large shifter on the big nut that secures it to the towbar tongue.
Hmmm, i got a half turn out of it and it came loose....

I thought to myself, ya dickhead, you went the wrong way...... but i hadn't.

Then i thought, geez, surely i haven't stripped the thread.

So i tried tightning it up again and the threaded section fell on the floor.

When the treg hitch had been made, it would appear, they drill a hole, feed the threaded section in to it and weld it.
Well, when i post the pics up, you'll clearly see that the weld had just just touched the smallest portion of the threaded section.

I haven't been able to speak with the folks that supplied it, as they aren't open on a saturday and i'd speak with them first before talking to treg themselves.

The main point however, is no one has any idea how much weld penertration has taken place, short of x raying each and every hitch.

We have to have rated shackles and safety chains, but not on the welds it would appear.

Now, i'm not chucking a wobbly or anything, as no damage has occured and no one hurt or anything like that.
I just wanted to bring it to folks attention on something that can go wrong and could've gone wrong on a slightly grander scale.

[MR MAC GU]

Very, very lucky to find it now and not while towing.

I had a car trailer come off once and swing on the chains (lucky I had the chains crossed over). All was good till I braked and kaboom trailer through the back of the car...

Not a fun experience


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[jk]

I've got two Treg's up the shed..............think I'll go check them out         Thanks for the heads up mate 

[MY0080]

Lucky boy. I hope you get satifaction from your supplier mate. It makes you wionder if they under go a safety check

[Sixtys Guy]

Was it a 'Treg' or a 'Treg copy'? There have been some stories and pics floating around about Treg copies.

[Jeepers Creepers]

It was bought as treg and it says treg on the invoice, so it better be a treg.

I guess the main issue is, you just can't tell if its any good or not by looking at it..... the weld that is.

From the outside, the weld looks fine, but it barely touched the threaded bit.

I'm no welder, but it should have had a circle weld done around the thread where it inserts into the body of the hitch and then fill the to of the hole in, if you what i mean.

Once Mrs. Jeepers loads the pics into the bucket, i'll zot 'em on up and you'll all see what i'm waffling on about

Oh, by the way, the hitch was bought brand new in August last year  and has done two trips to Fraser, so still like brand new really.

[dazzler]

Reminds me of a bunch of sunraysia rims that had been pressed together but not welded.  Mucho problemo!

[Sixtys Guy]

It was bought as treg and it says treg on the invoice, so it better be a treg.

Pretty sure the genuine Treg couplings have 'treg' stamped on the part that attched to the car. They also have 'treg' cast into the poly block.

[Marschy]

Treg are about 200 metres from where I work. Hardy Road Underdale, if you like I can get you some pics of what a genuine Treg looks like and post it up on Monday?

[Jenko67]

wow Jeepers, lucky....

[Boxhead 71]

Pretty sure the genuine Treg couplings have 'treg' stamped on the part that attched to the car. They also have 'treg' cast into the poly block.

Yeah, you can't just "think" it's a Treg hitch, it's got it on there in big letters.

[Turbojohn]

Wow that's scary! Im very interested in seeing a couple of pics

[Jeepers Creepers]

I can't recall seeing the word TREG or TREGG anywhere on the product either.......

I'm going down shortly to get some pics of the main trailer portion of the hitch, then i'll come home and load 'em up.

I'm really hoping i haven't been sold a cheap chinese hitch and told it was the real McCoy.

I asked for a TREG hitch, because i wanted quality, so if it does turn out to be a ring-in, i'll not be the happy chappie i normally am.

[D4D]

Pretty sure the genuine Treg couplings have 'treg' stamped on the part that attched to the car. They also have 'treg' cast into the poly block.

My Treg had Treg cast into the poly block but nothing on the coupling itself.

[MrCruza]

I've got a spare in the shed from when I converted to an OzHitch if you want it. It's definitely genuine. Only the car end.   

[Jeepers Creepers]

I've got a spare in the shed from when I converted to an OzHitch if you want it. It's definitely genuine. Only the car end.   

Thanks for that..... i'll let you know. 

[Jeepers Creepers]

Sorry, pics are a bit off.





No TREG markings anywhere to be seen.

I'll let you all know how i go tomorrow with it all.

[nbd73]

Just mow an extra 10 yards tomorrow and get yourself a DO35.  (Okay, maybe 20 yards, heck I don't know what you charge!; I also don't know where you will find those extra 20 yards, and I most certainly don't know when the rain will stop, but then life is full of these little challenges)

[evolution]

It looks heaps different to my treg mate, although the one i have is a few years old now. Mine has Treg sa markings stamped on it. Ill post some pics for you when i get back from the maternity photo shoot.

Cheers
Evo

[Jeepers Creepers]

Yeah, i'm hoping i haven't been stuck for a cheap import as TREG.

[Skinnee]

Mine has a treg stamp on the top and is gold in colour , design looks the same though

[dazzler]

That looks like a cheap knock off of my cheap knock off.  From the looks of it there has not been enough penetration into the bolt stub even though there should have been as it looks like they could get full penetration from the top.

How did so much rust get going?

[Tim - Stratford]

Mine is a 2011 make - came with the KK, the poly block also has Treg marked on same.

[Jeepers Creepers]

Don't know Dazzler, except, maybe it came up the thread...... perhaps.

Yeah, the welder barley touched the threaded portion.

[Big Nath]

What sort of trailer have you got or where did u buy the coupling?


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