Dealer Installation or Independent?

Surely the dealer can deliver the vehicle to your choice of supplier for fitting OR get quotes, then have the dealer match the price....
all the best,

Purchase tour HR WDH wherever you can get the best price.
Waist of time trying to set up a WDH with an empty van with low Ball Weight and an unladen vehicle
The dealer will roughly set it up to get your van home.
After packing the van and the Tow Vehicle and filling the Water Tank(s) etc You can then have it set up correctly.
ozjohn

I bought my 750 model Hayman WD hitch here in Adelaide ($690) and took it to Melbourne for the van pick up. Had never used one before - the van maker was happy to spend time setting it up for me without charge. I did have any idea anyway of how to do it, but it was handy for someone who does it a lot to provide the demo. Of note though is the fact that once the van is sitting on the tow ball, TITLE HAD PASSED to me - the client of course carries all the responsibility for the correct setup of such hardware - I did my anderson plug wiring at home, prior. I paid an electric brake specialist to do my brake controller supply and setup.

Not hard to do either.

The WDH is only two bolts on the van just put the bars on and pull the chain straight up Bolt the receivers on there.

It takes a little bit of fiddling to get the car end at the right height but as an

idea back it up to the van and set the jockey wheel so that van looks level

Set the towball to that height using the bolts on the hitch to adjust.

Go here for fitting instructions and scroll down to products/weight

distribution then scroll down and the fitting instructions are there as a PDF download

http://www.haymanreese.com.au/index.htm


Take it home empty and do it then An empty van will be Ok for one trip without one surely.

The Anderson plug can be done later unless you need it for the fridge.

Pretty simple as well 6 B&S all the way to the rear N earth strap the same onto a chassis bolt and you are away.

I put a 60 amp resettable fuse in the line at the battery $26 at Autopro.

The dealer will give it to one of the boys and charge full rates.

Do it yourself and do it right.

Incidentally my HR WDH cost me $549 in Qld last year for the 750.

Have seen horrendous prices here in the west for this sort of gear.


Cheers

Hi Blue Galaxy,
Just had my anderson plug on the car fitted by local auto electrician and he also supplied the materials for the caravan.

I fitted the van side of things but left the car to the autolec as it suited me to do it that way. Labour was just under $200 but the fitting in the car also included another outlet for the Waeco fridge in the back of the cruiser.
Materials were just over $200 which included a special plug and socket for the fridge connection. (I chose an expensive one)
Total cost was $407

This should give you some Idea of a ball park figure.

Having said all the above, you do not have to have the anderson plug fitted to pick up the van.
Hope this is of some help
Regards, Bruce.

Best to organise fitting yourself otherwise if you do it through the dealer all they will most probably do is call in their 'mobile auto electrician' and then finish up making a profit from the transaction - at your expense. Organise your own (decent/reputable) Auto Electiorcian. You won't regret it.

Do it yourself and do it right