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This hitch is rated for 16,000 lbs gross towing weight and a 4,000 lbs vertical load limit, giving you the strength to haul serious fifth wheels with peace of mind. The sturdy steel construction and durable carbide powder coat finish hold up to long miles and rough roads while keeping everything feeling solid and secure. It’s the kind of build that inspires confidence every time you back under a trailer.
The rounded, interlocking two-piece jaw wraps fully around the king pin to deliver 360-degree contact. That design helps prevent rattle and movement you’d get with slide-bar models, so the ride feels tighter and quieter. You’ll notice less clanking and more stability on every stretch of highway, even when the trailer is loaded heavy.
With Curt’s color-coded indicator system, you always know the hitch’s status at a glance—red for uncoupled, yellow for ready to couple, and green for towing. The indicators are visible from the cab or beside the truck, taking the guesswork out of hitching up. And when you uncouple, the handle automatically resets itself so it’s ready to couple again next time.
The torsion head self-aligns as you back in and couples smoothly without fighting misalignment. Once connected, it flexes with the trailer to reduce road shock and noise. That articulation keeps things steady over uneven pavement and makes long-distance towing more relaxed behind the wheel.
When it’s time to open up your bed space, you don’t need extra tools or help. Just pull one pin to remove the head and lift it off in manageable pieces. The included plastic lube plate also helps the king pin glide into place during hookup while protecting surfaces for easier maintenance down the road.
This fifth-wheel hitch is compatible with rotating pin boxes, such as the Reese Sidewinder, Reese Revolution, and 5th Airborne Sidewinder, only when used with a wedge (sold separately).
Alternate Instructions
Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Hey everybody, Ryan here at etrailer. Today on our 2019 Ford F-150 we're gonna be checking out the Curt A16 5th wheel hitch. Nowadays these half-ton trucks are really capable and so people are really, you know, putting 'em through the paces, towing a lot of heavy stuff around and whatnot. So if you have a fifth wheel type trailer, whether it's a camper or something else, you're gonna need a way to pull it and that's exactly what this is gonna help you do. So this is gonna be a fixed mount one, meaning that it's just going to drop into your in-bed rails. These are Curt rails but it's kind of an industry standard.
You know, if you have other manufacturers of rails, chances are really, really good this is still just gonna kind of drop into place and work out there. Being that it's fixed, that kind of, you know, brings me to my next point. So on our truck, this is only 5 1/2 foot bed so it's a really short bed and a lot of times what I usually recommend is a sliding type hitch, right That way when you make turns and stuff the hitch will go back and give you the cab clearance that you need. That way your trailer don't swing around and end up making contact with your cab corner, damaging the truck and the trailer. But what our customer's doing today is his trailer actually has one of those rotating pin boxes.
I believe it's the Reese Sidewinder. So that's how he can get away with using a fixed one. So this hitch is compatible with those rotating pin boxes. So the side of the hitch and the truck moving, the pin box on the camper will. Now if you have a long bed, really don't need to worry about any of that, right A fixed type hitch is gonna work out just fine.
This particular hitch is gonna be rated for 16,000 pounds so probably more than enough for the F-150, but if you like to go a little overkill, there's a 20,000 pound version of this available as well. The head of it articulates and does have a little bit of movement in there just to help absorb some of that road shock and trucking and things like that and making it easier to hook up, you know. So when you back up, this can kind of move around, you know, and kind of guide itself around that king pin on your trailer. And that's gonna kind of bring me to my next point. This has a dual jaw type design, so it's open right now but maybe I can reach over and close it.
And this thing is, it's no joke here. Whenever that's locked around the king pin, you can see it's super strong. It's no joke. It's going to have complete 360 degree contact and that's gonna really create a secure and good connection, kind of giving you some peace of mind there whenever you're towing your trailer down the road. The hitch head is gonna be adjustable. So I believe there's three different adjustments. You know, you can raise it up or down depending on your trailer and how high your truck sits and everything else. Kind of dial that in and get it as level as possible whenever you're towing. Right now we have it in the middle position and I'm letting you know that because a lot of people ask about Tonneau covers, right And if they're gonna be able to use one and not have to bother at taking the hitch in an out. And you should be in pretty good shape regardless of what Tonneau cover you have. On our truck today, we having one of these roll up ones, pretty common. And this at, even in the middle position and this over it, there's still, I mean, a ton of space here. So even if this was up a few more inches, you'd still have plenty of clearance and in most cases, in most Tonneau covers you shouldn't have anything to worry about. If in the off season, if you don't want this hitch back here, you're not gonna plan on using it for a while, you know, you can pull it in and out, which I'm not gonna lie, these things are pretty heavy. Thankfully though, this one, the actual, the head comes off of it separately. So you can remove those. This'll pop out. So you can get that out of the way and then pull the base out. And both of these independently are pretty manageable together. It's not the easiest thing to do. So by being able to break it apart like that, you know, it kind of turns a two man job into a one-man job. Other than that, you know, a nice hitch, it's well built. I like how it looks. Has kind of that flat black, matte black finish to it. You know, I really can't ask for too much more. Relatively lightweight when you break 'em apart and, you know, something you really can't go wrong with. Honestly, you know what our neighbor did here today, kind of got the whole package, which makes sense on an F-150, you know, pulling a big camper around. He got the Curt rails, he got our Curt in-bed wiring. He even went and did Air Lift airbags and a compressor. So I feel like all that stuff together, he should be really happy with and make his towing experience a comfortable and good one. I do wanna say that, I wanna emphasize this again, if you got a short bed like this and your trailer doesn't have one of those rotating pin boxes on it, it's really important to find a sliding type hitch. I just don't wanna see anyone pop this in their truck, make that turn and end up damaging anything. So a sliding one or that rotating pin box is going to alleviate any of those issues. And that'll finish up our look at of the Curt A16 5th wheel hitch in our 2019 Ford F-150..
Ratings & Reviews
Victoria H.
2/21/2025
We love to hear that this made such a improvement in your towing experience, Michael! Do you have any upcoming trips planned?
John N.
5/7/2021
Excellent! Still working as it did on day one. Very solid, easy to use, and the unit is very quiet. Also no chucking. I highly recommend this product to anybody. We now have 2020 Cameo 12,000# unloaded weight. Pulls perfectly.
Dave R.
7/22/2018
After a year I am still loving this hitch. I have had zero problems or issues with it. Hitching up and unhitching is so easy.
David C.
5/6/2018
A year later and hitch is still great. Easy to hitch and unhitch. Much smoother ride and no bouncing within the hitch. Glad I bought it.
Robert
3/13/2022
Great
Joe P.
10/7/2017
After a year, I love this hitch. It’s easy to hook up and unhook unlike the auto slider hitch it replaced. Paint is still good. Silver stuff is still silver. Has a small patch on the head where the camper hitch slides on. Unit performs well. It is quiet during turns. I feel safe using it. I will buy a curt hitch again if ever I need a new one.
Revbucco
1/6/2018
The Curt Hitch is awesome! This hitch has made towing enjoyable. No more chucking when I am crossing bridges or hit dips.
Peter C.
10/23/2017
Awesome. The hitch has worked great. Very, Very happy with the purchase,delivery, installation which I did myself, and performance of the product.Thanks again,Ill be sure to refer anyone who needs products you offer to you.
Bobby M.
4/16/2019
The Curt A16 work very well all last year during extended travel time. We towed almost 7,000 miles from Texas to Florida to Seattle and Back to Texas. Everything work well but unhitching could be difficult if I used a Pivot Plate. With the Pivot Plate in place, it was hard to tell if the weight was off of the hitch in order to disconnect. I love the indicator that tells me if I am safe to tow or not, but I always test the connection before towing.
Brice E.
3/31/2019
had some trouble keeping wedge part tight 16,000 mile trip,3 months-hope I got it fixed for this year!
Tsd
3/1/2023
Good hitch, smoother than the Q series from Curt. You do have to lubricate it regularly. Do that and it should be trouble free.
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Chad S.
2/24/2018
Could not be happier with this hitch. Have never had any coupling or uncoupling problems even in odd angle situations. Does not rattle or let the trailer chuck around. Easy to move. In and out of the truck. The powder coating is fading and showing some signs of surface rust but this is most likely due to it living in the truck unprotected. I have since moved the hitch into a 2017 ram 2500 with the puck system. I bought the puck mount and every thing bolted up nicely. I keep the standard rail legs under the bed of the fifth wheel should I ever need to pull with a truck that doesn’t have pucks. This has happened once when our truck broke down. Would definitely recommend this hitch.