Ready your truck to haul a camper with these sturdy tie-downs. Powder coated steel brackets securely clamp onto your truck's bed side rails.
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Installation
Installing these bed-mounted camper tie-downs is simple. First, attach the T-bolts to the bottom interior portion of each tie-down. Place each tie-down on the rail of your truck so that the straight side faces the interior of your bed and the angled side faces the exterior. Adjust the T-bolts until each tie-down sits square on the rail. Then attach the clamp plates to secure the tie-downs to the rails. To do this, position the clamp plate beneath the lip of the side rail so that the lip is between the plate and the straight side of the tie-down. Then insert a carriage bolt on either side of the setup and tighten the nuts on the bolts until the tie-down is securely clamped onto the lip of your bed side rail.
Securing your Camper
In order to secure your camper to your truck bed, these tie-downs will need to be used in conjunction with a tie-down hardware package consisting of turnbuckles, S-hooks, and chains (TDHP - sold separately). This hardware attaches to the anchors on your camper and to the tie-downs on your truck to keep your camper secure. Once you tighten the turnbuckles appropriately, you will be ready to haul your camper.
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (205 Customer Reviews)
Ready your truck to haul a camper with these sturdy tie-downs. Powder coated steel brackets securely clamp onto your truck's bed side rails.Purchased the Brophy camper tie down set of four for the Palomino truck camper I just purchased. These are my second set as the first set were sold with my Hallmark camper. Easy to install and hold the camper in the truck with no worries.
Arrived on a rainy day with the box falling apart. Too much heavy steel to be loosely packed. Fortunately, the hardware bag was still there. Some bare metal showing. I had some emails with MacKenzie B. and they were responsive and without asking they offered me a 5% refund for the damage. After my first trip, they performed well on some very bumpy roads. Held strong and didn't move. I did have to re-adjust the lower standoffs after the first week. Taking them on/off is frustrating because the 2 nuts are in the small gap behind the clamp against the inner bed wall. Too tight for all but an open end wrench. 1/6 turn times too many fumbling tries, arg! Also, I was nervous not having a locking feature (lock washer, locknut, etc). I bought 8 locknuts (pinch type) and welded them to the inner plate. Then bought 8 round head hex bolts (grade 8). So now I can install easily with an Allen socket. See pictures. Recommend eTrailer consider this modification.
These wont work for my truck and camper. The box on a 2018 gmc 2500 short bed does not lend well to placement of these in order to get the correct geometry i needed for the tie-down points on my Palomino maverick 6601. I had high hopews of not having to buy the frame mounts, but i will have to.
The product was shipped extremely quickly, it arrived 3 days after I ordered them. As far as the product goes I was extremely pleased that they were as easy to install as the product video showed them to be. I had been looking for
a tie down system that would work for my 2018 Ford since I purchased my camper in 2020 and after much research I found these at etrailer. One word of advice is that if your camper has a shower or other design that allows the camper to extend across the bed behind the wheel wells, either move the rear tie downs forward or shorten the leveling stud before you attempt to load your camper. On mine it turned out that once the tie downs were placed and attached I had to cut off about 3 inches of the threads.
Other than that it was an easy install although the bolts that attach the tie downs to the under lip clamp are a challenge to install but take your time and they will go on. I will post an update once I have been on the road for a few trip and see how they are working.
Thank you etrailer for your super fast shipping and online product videos.
Fits well on a First Gen Tundra. I was extremely unsure about fitment for my truck but they work great! Install only takes 5-10 minutes. I would definitely recommend. Steel is quite thick and seems very strong.
As far as I'm concerned these are junk. Wasted my money. Do not mount in proper location on a 2011 Chevy Silverado 6.5' Bed. Because of the design of the bed rail the mounts cannot be installed in the proper locations for securing camper. The photos show the maximum forward and back that these can be mounted. Not at all made for the 6.5 foot bed 2007 or later Siverado. The Black Powder Coated Steel isn't that great either. Paint missing, dinged up from storage and shipping probably.
These camper hold-downs appear to be manufactured from good steel stock and should do the job nicely. I did have one piece that was slightly damaged but was not caught when packaged (the damage was not due to shipping). I was able to take a hammer to the bent steel and straighten it sufficiently to use the part. It was a little disappointing however, and should have been caught prior to shipping.
Overall I am pleased with the quality and price
Well I ended up not useing these mounts. So I called etrailer and asked if I could return them, totally my fault, NOT etrailer at all. They were very very good about returning the product. I have bought products from etrailer before. They are good products, they dont sell junk. I dont buy junk either. I'll keep buying from etrailer. No I am not some kiss ass either. If they sell me some piece of [crap] product, I will send it back and tell they its a piece of [crap]. Keep life simple.
Found easy to install, I placed lock washers on the 8 3/8" bolts. Sold at Menards for 89 cents (pkg of 8) not in kit. Placement was a little restrictive with dealer installed bed liner. Takes 30 minutes to install all 4. Great buy.
These tie-downs worked awesome for our pop up camper on our 1998 F150. Super snug, haven't loosened up or moved on the truck, camper hasn't budged either. I was leary at first not having the camper tied to the frame but now I have total faith in these tie downs.
I received this tie downs on July, and first used it yesterday.
My Camper ‘s dry weight is about 1600 lb, and the products are good for my truck camper.
The problem was the position where tie downs were fitted on my truck. I tried several times to fitted tie downs to my truck.
These Brophy tie downs have worked great over the past year. I leave the camper on the truck and it is my daily driver as well as RV. The camper weighs in at 1500 dry and about 2000 loaded. I do not do any radical 4x4 but I have taken some backwoods off road logging trails.
Works good but 3 stars because the mounting screws rusted very bad. They should be galvanized or SS.
Using on 2013 Ford F150 for a smaller cabover. Great quality product, shipped fast, works great. Had to turn bolts around to clear inside of bed. Held camper solidly over rough trails!
If I could give a 3.5 out of 5, I would. These tie-downs serve their purpose, but definitely not recommended for a bigger camper. I would say my camper is average sized. These tie-downs hold my camper in place the majority of the time, some small movements when I'm on rough roads, but nothing too dramatic.
Negatives.
Two of the four lost the padded backing where the tie down meets the inside of the truck bed. Had to go buy some foam and create my own. They flex quite a bit with a camper the size of mine, wouldn't go down any rough roads.
These things are solid although i put duck tape on the T pads....installed 2014 Chevy Silverado 6.5 ft bed for 1200lb Starcraft.
Ordered these for my new truck to hold my popup camper. As I haven't put them on yet because it's still winter, end of march it will be prepared to be put on. What I will say about customer service is there is nothing like it. Sent me emails updating everything and tracking. I did take a look at them and they look very heavy duty. I look forward to putting them on and gettin out to camping! I'll provide pictures once I get the chance of putting them on.
Easy to install and have done what’s expected. Keep the camper in place!!
WORKS GOOD
ORDER ON TUESDAY RECIEVED ON FRIDAY NOON SAME WEEK ONLY PROBLEM WAS 4 7/ 16 NUT WERE 4 1/2 NUT HAD TO BUY 4 NUTS OTHER THEN THAT I WOULD BUY OFF ETRAILER AGAIN VERY GOOD SERVICE
I bought these for our brand new 2019 GMC Sierra 1/2 ton because no custom options were available. I was happy that they were easy to install, and look great. I’ve used them in the past and have been happy with how they hold campers. Sure I’d rather have custom mounts from the frame, but for the price and because these are my only option that’s what I got. These will work just fine, and I like that I can swap these out on trucks.
The one thing I wish was different was that the threaded T handle portion would have a longer option. I had to fancy up a 2”x6” to run inside the side of my p/u bed so they would touch something.
As always another great shopping experience with etrailer. They haven’t let me down yet. Especially Lori, what a great customer service rep.
These tie downs were a great budget solution in leu of a permanent installation of my camper shell and/or frame mounted tie downs. Aside from needing to plan their placement (they can hang in front of the gas cap if you don't plan it right the first time around... no, I didn't accidentally block my gas cap... maybe I did) and take into consideration they also need a little bit of internal clearance as well, they work just fine. I haven't noticed any cargo shifting nor warping of the truck bed around where they are installed. My camper shell is under 1K lbs and it holds just fine.
Well made brackets
The product is made from very good stock. They seem to be well built . I had a bit of a problem installing on my truck ,and ended up putting the bolts on the angled support rack in backwards according to the video , which I watched after . The tie downs have not been camper tested yet and I am excited to try them out!
Could be happier took about 15 minutes to install can't wait to go camping
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