Use your 2" hitch-mounted accessories with your 2-1/2" x 2-1/2" trailer hitch and extend your trailer hitch receiver opening with the same piece. Sturdy, black powder coated steel construction.
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Note: Using this extension will reduce your hitch's weight capacity by one third.
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (156 Customer Reviews)
Use your 2" hitch-mounted accessories with your 2-1/2" x 2-1/2" trailer hitch and extend your trailer hitch receiver opening with the same piece. Sturdy, black powder coated steel construction.My truck has a 2-1/2" receiver. I already owned a heavy duty 2" hitch. This 2" reducer & extender was perfect for my use. I used it to tow a rental trailer and needed to extend my receiver to allow me to tow with the tailgate down. This reducer/extender did the trick. I had plenty of room making tight u-turns. The quality of the product is very good. I would recommend this product to others.
I purchased this to use on my 2500HD to transition from the factory 2.5" receiver to a 2" so that we could use a Yakima hitch mounted bike rack. With the length of the tube, it also provides the perfect amount of clearance from the back of the truck so that I can lower the tailgate without it hitting the upright on the bike rack. Great product and always pleased with etrailer's customer service!
Should work great, well built. Now I can lower my tailgate when towing. Just be sure not to overload your tongue weight capacity. This particular extender will reduce tongue weight capacity by 1/3.
Did exactly what I needed. New truck 2.5” receiver and 2” bike rack. This was perfect length. Allows me to fully drop tailgate without hitting. I have a Kuat NV2.0. No wiggles no coming loose no rattle. Ashley was awesome and got it out to me ASAP. Love etrailer.
This heavy duty extension is going to work perfect for towing my boat behind my truck and camper. This is just what I needed. The quality is superb. I found a similar product on Amazon but the reviews were poor and the quality looked inferior to the e-trailer product.
I pull an 8,000lb camper with a 900lb hitch weight. I us an equalizer hitch, and after adding this extender (F250 has 2 1/2" hitch) I'm able to fully open my tailgate that was previously hitting the front jack. I don't notice in difference in pulling, even on the freeway at 75 mph. Made heavy duty, would recommend.
Perfect as hitch extender for Thule bike rack on a large receiver.
exactly what I needed to clear my tailgate and serve as a reducer
Would have liked to have had 3” to 2.5” to fit my F350. With an adaptor it will work fine. I think quality is very nice but the price is really high for what it is. It did solve my problem of loading ATV in bed of truck with tailgate open and still hook up my bumper pull trailer.
Product arrived early which allowed us to use our bike rack for the weekend. Fits a Ford Super Duty 2.5” hitch as stated.
After 1 year of frequent towing and hitch changes, this hitch lock is still working well!
Exactly what I needed. Extends my hitch back 7 inches. Good quality.
We can now haul our golf cart with the tailgate (on our Chevy HD 2500 6'-6" bed) down and still pull our Apex 24' travel trailer. Before we would need to remove the tailgate. Our truck hitch is a class 5 rated at 13,500 lbs. and our trailer fully loaded is 5964 lbs. We only needed to extend our 7- pin cord ,the breakaway brake cable and safety chains.
Terry R - 10/07/2016Ita a great hitch/adapter to have but remember to tell your customers that you can not recess the adapter all the way in to the first pin whole cause the spare tire gets in the way.
I only use this for a bike rack. The extension makes it easy to open the tailgate without interfering with the bikes. The quality is excellent.
Works great, as advertised. Very well c onstructed.
Works as intended. Needed to extend the hitch just a few inches so the tailgate of my truck would not hit the trailer tongue jack. Needed the higher rating of this unit for my 8000# trailer. I only give 3-stars because after only 1/2 a Michigan winter it is already badly rusted. I will have to have it blasted & repainted in the Spring.
Well built and strong. I think I ordered the 8 inch but I wish there was other size options. With 8 inch hitch on my 6000 pound trailer I felt lots of clunking back there while towing on Mtn roads. I may cut the adapter shorter and re-drill the hole. I only needed 4-5 inches so my tailgate would open with my old camper. I also bought hitch clamps from hits clam.com which helped.
Part works perfectly and was actually delivered 1 day ahead of promised delivery date. Great customer service!
We bought a Thule EasyFold XT 2 bike rack for our 2017 Ford F-250. I wanted a reducer and extender that would allow me to open the back cap and lower the tailgate without doing anything to the rack. This was the perfect answer.
This works perfect on my Ram 2500 to extend my hitch for my trailer toy hauler. I can now load my Polaris ATV in truck bed and keep the tailgate down and still hook up and unhook and haul trailer. Very solid piece of steel and well coated to prevent rust.
Not the best fit. Rattles a lot in rece iver
Tyler M - 05/27/2021The Hitch Reducer works fine, my only complaint is it has a lot of play between the hitch and reducer. Tried to shim, my Thule bike rack really moves around going down the road. When you hit a bump rally jars the bike rack. Also wish it had another adjustment hole, I have a new dodge 2500 hits the spare tire, if it would extend farther into the receiver this may help with the play in the reducer. Service was great though
Looks like it's going to be a good product for me. The right length extension plus it eliminates the need for the factory sleeve to reduce from 2 1/2 to 2 inches.
Todd F - 09/22/2018Arrived on time as stated when ordered.
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