Trailer Hitch, Moss Motors
 

Anyone have any experience with the Moss Motors trailer hitch? Seems reasonably priced at $149.95 and claims to be simple to install. Has 200 lb tongue weight and 2000 lb towing capacity.

You can't put a trailer hitch on a Mini. It would be wrong in so many ways.

Yes you can, and many do...
 

how else to you get two adults and two kids with car seats and luggage for all to AMVIV?

Not everyone who owns a Mini is single or "unencumbered". Please try to remember that next time you decice to make a rule of ownership.

Matt

ps, I have the "MiniDoMore" trailer hitch, and it's a pretty easy install, but I don't like how the hitch mounts. It's a real PITA.

I was on the Moss site...
 

and it says 100 lbs tonge 1000 lbs towing.

Matt

I just never got the Harley-towing-a-trailer look. How's the motoring with a trailer?

Hmmm, I'm looking in the catalog and it has 2000 lb towing and 200 lb tongue weight printed in the description.
Any ever installed this hitch? Says under car trimming required, no fascia trimming needed. Also, no drilling required.

Trailer hitches are ok for a car, but in just my experience I have owned a car thats been equipped with a trailer hitch and it pulled seriously to the right. (the previous owner probably towed too much weight and screwed everything up) Not saying the hitch is bad, but if you stay within the limits of towing i'm sure everything will turn out fine just my .02 :thumbsup:

"hitches are just wrong in so many ways", How else can you get your dot legal racing tires to solo?:confused:

Not at $4+ gas prices!

I put a hitch on my 97 jetta years back, worked fine to tow a little sailboat i have, but the only problem i had was when the back of the car would go down out of a driveway or something that hitch that sticks a little lower than the car would nail the pavement, bad noise, but no big deal.

The hitch may be rated at 200 + 2000 but the MINI is set for 100 + 1000

We used a Sport trailer from U-haul..
 

it's the one that looks like a plastic bubble. We did fine, and hit extra-legal speeds with no issue. The only thing that sucks is that the trailer itself is about 500lbs. But since it's smooth and pretty much tucks behind the Minis profile, I don't think it really effected drag too much.

The only pain is to install the wiring. You need a 3-2 wiring converter, and that takes a little work to put in.

Matt

See if you can get Moss to send you a mounting diagram, and compare it to the Minidomore hitch. I just ordered a 08 S and I'm putting a hitch on mine so I can tow my racing dinghy around the country. I think it's obvious that one wouldn't want to max out the tounge or tow limits. Hitches work well for bycyle racks too.

You can download
 

the installation instruction from the Moss page. It's a PDF...

Matt

I towed my trailer to AMVIV IV with my MCSc. I went with a group of MINIs and was able to keep up or even lead the group. I did not feel the trailer behind me and it never affected the performance.

Also, speed was not an issue.

I too have the MINI-DO-MORE Trailer Hitch, much better product.

Don't confuse the Moss Hitch and the Mini-Do-More Hitch...2 different animals.

Hitches
 

After looking at the two hitches again, the Moss Rating is now at 100/1000, I remember seeing it at 200/2000 previously when I was looking at hitches to tow a teardrop trailer. To add to the confusion, at Mini Do More they have this:

I know...
 

I have the Mini Do More....

If I were to buy new, I'd do the sport link from Mini Fini.... But I got a deal on the Mini Do More, don't tow that often, so it's kind of a done deal.

Matt

Dr., Would you buy the Mini Fini Sport Link because it is easier to install than the Mini Do More? It looks like it is, but you have the experience.
Thanks, Peter

NOT at all. MiniDoMore is a DIY install, whereas I would not have been able to do the Sportlink myself.
What is easier is the attachment/removal of accesories (i.e. hooking your trailer, bike carrier, etc)

For a great comparison on MiniDoMore vs. Mini Fini, see DixonL2's post at:

https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...d.php?t=104718

:roll:

Puttn.....you do have a Cooper (not an S) right?

The basic trade between the two
 

is that with the Fini, you have to drill something. For the S, it's the plastic inserts. For the cooper, it's the bumper skin. For the MiniDoMore, the hitch is stuck back behind the reverse light (for the 02), or whatever goes behind the thing in the center for your year.

The problems I have with the MiniDoMore isn't really the install (you take the bumper cover and extruded Al piece). It's with putting the hitch on and off. For each time I do it, I have to get under the car, bend the heat shield, undo a bolt for the bumper cover so I can get my hand up to put the lock pin in, unbend the heat shield and put the bolt back in. It's just tucked too far up and in there. Can't stand it. Wiht the Sport Link system, you have to drill something, but then the parts lock on from the outside of the car, no more under stuff and bending stuff...

None of them are perfect. With the S, drilling the black plastic inserts is easy. For the Cooper, you have to be much more careful.

6 of one, meet a half dozen of the other.... Choose your poisen.

Matt

nope

:thumbsup:

And one heck of a frame stiffiner
https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...um/1-6_002.jpg