Bumpers. Detours or Dirtbound ?

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Here's an extra tid bit I learned as a subcontractor with Thule.

Unless a company has an inhouse engineering dept., on a seperate payroll, seperate budget from the parent company, it 'can not' rate it's own product.
Ratings, such as a hitch rating, needs to be provided by an outside testing agency inwhich a company supplies 3-5 production samples along with the manufacturing procedure. That company then tests it to limits requested, thus getting the rating for the product, documented.

Just some extra knowledge.