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Use this hitch immobilizer to keep your drawbar or hitch-mounted accessory from rattling and shifting in your receiver. Great for bike racks, cargo carriers, and other accessories. Quick, simple bolt-on installation.
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Nearly every hitch setup suffers from a bit of slip. This free play between your trailer hitch receiver and your hitch-mounted accessory is completely normal, but it's also completely preventable. By adding the Quiet Hitch to your setup, you can stabilize your hitch-mounted accessory as it sits in the receiver to eliminate rattle, sway, and all that extra play.
Just slip the Quiet Hitch over your drawbar or other accessory. When you slide the accessory into the hitch receiver, position the U-bolt around the collar on the bottom of your hitch receiver. Then place the bar on top of the accessory shank and tighten the nuts onto the U-bolt. As you tighten the Quiet Hitch, the shank of your accessory will be pulled down towards the bottom of the receiver opening, thus securing it in place within the tube.
Average Customer Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (172 Customer Reviews)
Use this hitch immobilizer to keep your drawbar or hitch-mounted accessory from rattling and shifting in your receiver. Great for bike racks, cargo carriers, and other accessories. Quick, simple bolt-on installation.The combination of a Swagman XCT2 bike rack and a curt 1 1/4” receiver produced a bit of a side to side wobble when under way. The Roadmaster Quiet Hitch alleviated this problem. Sturdy product. I torqued the nuts as specified and have had no issues after a dozen trips. I check them as part of my pre-trip routine. Vehicle is garaged so I can’t comment on how it holds up to the weather. A nice solution to the wobble problem.
I used this with my bike rack hitch attachment and it eliminated all the play between the two pieces. Now it feels like one solid piece with the hitch. Great product!
After buying a piece of junk from HF that did not work and returning it. I looked on etrailer. Same place I bought my hitch. I just put it on and it fits perfect does the job. I got the 1.25 hitch and it’s so simple and and it took less that 1 minute to put on. NO RATTLE thank you for a good product.
Excellent quality. It has kept my hitch steady all year.
Won't stay tight. Skinny u-bolt keeps b ending.
Love it! I am not sure how you would use it, but I turned it upside down to stabilize a bike rack. Can't do that with a heavier load, but this way it helps elevate the rack so I don't scrape when backing out of the driveway. Still, I wish this product didn't rust. Only had it a year!
This part installed in less than 5 minutes and it does exactly what it says. I'm using this on a 1 1/4" hitch with a bike rack attached. It's very stable now and no noise/rattling.
The Roadmaster Quiet Hitch is a great attachment for any one using a hitch. Most hitches have a certain amount of play in hem and his will stop the hitch from rattling while your towing anything.
Great service, thanks
Just perfect
I have used this a couple of times and it works great. Fits my class 1 hitch well.
This morning my TWO Roadmaster Quiet Hitched (2" and 1-1/4") arrived. I set about mounting my bicycle rack into my new etrailer.com 2" Draw-Tite hitch on my 2014 Subaru Outback.
I mounted the Roadmaster Quiet Hitches and was very pleased the bike rack went from having over 5" of free-play at the rack head to less than 1/2" of free-play. I no longer need to have a strap from the rack head to the roof rack.
I very good investment.
(it is a long story why I have both 2" and 1-1/4" hitches)
John T.
4/5/2018
The products have worked out VERY well ... I am much pleased. It was a very good investment. I found I needed to invert the 2 stabilizer because of clearance issues with the rear plastic valance but I see no problems.
I have used this only once. I do which the U bolt and nuts where of a higher grade of steel. I will just have to see how it wears. But I would recommend this if you have a noisy little trailer like we have.
Just what I needed. Because I use a 2" to 1 1/4" inch adapter for my bike rack the other anti-rattle devices I tried would not fit. The compact design of the Roadmaster Quiet Hitch works perfeclty and etrailer delivered it very promptly. I am very satisfied.
Doug
4/24/2016
After one year it still works great, simple and effective
First of all, the quick service and shipping were unbeatable-- I got my order the next day with regular shipping.
The Roadmaster Quiet Hitch is as advertised and exactly what I needed-- I've never seen one in a retail store.
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These straps are great-- with no extra flapping straps to tie up.
Tom A.
9/28/2016
Just fine and Im about to buy another when my new vehicle is delivered.
The Roadmaster clamp is perfect for a 1-1/4" setup. We're using it to stabilized a multibike rack with a Curt hitch.
Martin H.
8/22/2017
Its still working great. Used multiple times with bike rack.
Had a lot of rattling and clunking from the hitch. Rattling with nothing in tow and
clunking when towing( starting & stopping ). This item has made everything nice
and tight.... as usual the service from ETRAILER was terrific. Easy to order and it
arrived quickly. Don't know why anyone would go anywhere else for their trailer-
ing needs.
Al F.
3/1/2018
still doing what it is designed for
I use this Roadmaster Quiet Hitch U-collar to stabilize the 1.25"-2" hitch adapter which I plug into the 1.25" hitch on my car. The adapter allows me to attach my 2" Kuat bike rack to the car. The Quiet Hitch does a great job of reducing sway. The only thing I don't like about the Quiet Hitch is that you are supposed to use a torque wrench to tighten it, yet another tool to carry along and lose. Even when I snug up the Quiet Hitch flange and lock nuts well with a 1/2" socket, they do tend to loosen after a few miles. Assuming that my Quiet Hitch loosens because I don't use a torque wrench, it would be nice if the Quiet Hitch were made with an airplane-grade retention system that doesn't require torquing to a specific value.
Do you hear that? Nah, this item is a b east.
Had a hard time finding a hitch stabilizer that would work for my situation. In my case, I am not towing anything but, rather, mounting a bike rack. Also, complicating matters was a converter from 1-1/4" to 2". The rack mounted on the 2" receiver and comes with a screw down bolt to prevent play. Unfortunately, the converter had no such feature and had significant play when inserted into the 1-1/4" receiver of the two hitch. The Roadmaster product completely solved the issue. Very happy with the results.
I bought this because I was a towing rookie. The first time I towed my trailer the noise from the hitch was really loud inside the car. My wife thought the trailer was going to come off.
After researching my problem I came across this product. After installing the noise disappeared. No more banging sounds! I recommend this for a smoother towing experience.
This thing does a brilliant job of stabilizing the hitch inside the receiver to keep it from banging and rattling around. I have a Curt Euro-style integrated ball and mount so bolt-type stabilizer wouldn't work. The plating does a nice job of staving off rust and the flanged nuts help prevent the hardware from backing off.
This product is truly as easy to use as it claims to be. I put it on my hitch in minutes, with no fancy tools, and it totally works to get rid of the sway. I am using it with my 1.25 to 1.25 hitch riser (VH-HR2 from Discount Ramps) on my 2009 Toyota Sienna van. My bike rack is attached to the hitch riser and there is very little movement in the hitch/rack even at higher rates of speed. The shopping experience with etrailer.com was great and shipping was faster then expected.
It is hard to believe how well this product works when just looking at its simplicity. The old lash and loud noise from the ball mount being loose in the receiver is all gone.
Eric N.
7/23/2017
A year later, a new car, a new hitch receiver. But the same lash between the ball mount and hitch receiver. This product works as perfectly on the new Chevy as it did on the old Subaru. No noise. Well done.
We have used this device to pull our teardrop trailer on a class two hitch for about 6000 miles. It completely eliminated the clunking and rattling we were experiencing. It is not easy to take off and install so we leave the ball attached to the car all the time.
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David
12/1/2020
Nothing has changed after a year to make me alter my review. Solid product.