Rear hitch for bike rack. 2014 Gen3

yesterday, I bought this hitch under $103.00 from hitchanything.com

planning to install this weekend and put some pics.

 

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Curt 11299 Trailer Hitch Receiver Class 1 1-1/4" Receiver Tube Inch - Free Shipping

 

The photo may be too dark to see but I use my hitch to carry two totes full of stuff when traveling. We don't over load them and fasten securely with tie downs. On our way home now with it on back, 1500 mile trip.
Cost was 120 shipped. Took less than hour to install. There is a thread here somewhere but I can't find it right now, passing through Little Rock.
Dan

 

took 30 min. to unscrew and put screw back with Hitch...

 

The Curt hitch is especially shaped to be installed over the bumper supports, not under it.

As the Curt has six mounting bolts (competitive hitches all seem to have four), it helps to make a pair of studs from 8mm x 50mm standard grade bolts, with the heads removed by a hacksaw and then ground or sanded flat, and with a slight chamfer.

The installation process, then, either for six or for four mounting bolts, would be to remove the OEM mounting bolts, install the shop-made studs in the top-most positions on each side, install the hitch on the studs, and then install the hitch-supplied bolts finger-tight, then remove the studs and install the remaining hitch-supplied bolts in the same way.

Finally, the hitch-supplied bolts would be tightened and then torqued to specifications.

Should the hitch-supplied bolts fail, as several owners have noted, it certainly makes sense to complain to the hitch's manufacturer, and then replace these with a like-sized Class 10.9 bolt (roughly equivalent to a US Class 8 bolt).

Note 1: The Curt hitch already comes with 10.9 bolts.

Note 2: In the last photo, two posts above, the anti-rotation washers are installed inside-out. It is intended by the manufacturer that the small "teeth" on the concave side of the washer engage the frame material, thereby preventing rotation, and facilitating the washer fully compressing.