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Rob here at etrailer.com, and today you're going to be taking a look at the EcoHitch Custom Fit Trailer Hitch Receiver on our 2019 Chevy Bolt. Now, here is what our hitch is going to look like once we have it installed. You can see it's going to have a really clean factory look to it, and that's because our cross tube here is going to be completely hidden behind the bumper, and the only thing we're going to see is that receiver tube sticking out.Now, our EcoHitch is going to offer us a two inch by two inch receiver tube opening, which means we're going to have a really wide variety of options when it comes to accessories that we can mount up. If you want to take some bikes with you, we could put a bike rack in here. Maybe we need to make some room inside for passengers or pets, we can put a cargo carrier in our hitch, that way we have more room, or hook up a ball mount so we can tow a trailer.Now, regardless of what we're going to be putting in our hitch, all of our accessories are going to mount using the hitch pin hole here on the side. It is going to accept a standard five eighths pin and clip.
Now, these are not included in our kit, but you can pick them up here at etrailer.com, along with some locking devices so your accessories are secure.Now, if you are going to be towing a trailer, obviously you need a spot to hook up your safety chains, and our connection point is going to be a loop style welded to the bottom here, and as you can see, even with some of the smaller hooks, we should have plenty of room to get them hooked or unhooked. Now, you want to make sure that your hitch is going to be up to the task that we put it to, so as far as the weight rating goes, our hitch is going to have a 300 pound tongue weight, which is going to be great for some of those larger bike racks or really maximizing the space for our cargo carrier.Now, as far as the gross trailer weight rating goes, it's going to be rated at 2,000 pounds. Now, that's how much our hitch can pull including the trailer and everything we have loaded on it, but you do want to double check your Volt's owner's manual, because you don't want to exceed the manufacturers recommended weight. Now I would like to give you a few measurements, and these are going to help you out when you're looking for accessories for your new hitch, like a ball mount, a bike rack, or even a cargo carrier.From the center of the hitch pin hole to the outermost edge of the bumper is right about four and a half inches. Now, that measurement is going to help you out when you're looking at folding accessories to make sure you have enough room and they're not going to come in contact with the rear bumper.
From the ground to the inside top edge of the receiver tube opening, it's going to be right about 11 and three quarter inches.Now, that measurement is going to help when you're looking for a ball mount to make sure you have the appropriate rise or drop to match up to your trailer, but at the same time, at that height I would definitely recommend a bike rack or a car carrier that has a raised shank, that way we get a little bit more ground clearance out of it. Now we've seen what our hitch looks like and gone over some of the features, let's get it installed together.To start our installation, we want to open up our rear hatch. Now, if we come to the opening on our bumper here, where the hatch covers up, we're going to find a bolt on each side of the opening. We need to remove that, so you want to grab a T15 Torx bit and we'll pull those two bolts out. And we'll pull the other one out of the other side as well.
Now, if we come to very bottom side of our rear fascia, right behind our rear tires we're going to have a bolt holding the fascia to the wheel well liner. Again, we want to grab that T15 Torx bit and we're going to pull both of them out, one on each side.Now, if we move towards the center of our Chevy, we're going to have two pushpins holding the bottom of our fascia to the bottom of the trunk pan. So you need to take those out, so we'll grab a flat blade screwdriver, and there's a small notch, it's kind of hard to see but there's a little notch in there, we want to get our screwdriver in that notch so that we can separate the center section from the outer section of our pushpin. Sometimes they do get stuck a little bit, but again, you just want to pop out that center section, it's starting to come out, you can see there's lot of dirt and debris trapped in there.So you want to try your best not to break the pushpin, but we need to pull that center section out so it will relieve the tension, if it comes out that's fine
23 июл 2024
