How to install a trailer hitch on a Chevy Bolt EV 

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Glad we could help. Sadly this car was totaled, but its replacement (2022 EUV) has towed a ~1,900 lb teardrop over 1,000 miles to the Grand Canyon and back, so you should have no trouble at all with short-range towing.

You are welcome, glad it helped! Running the wires through the hatch is an option, but personally would bug the hell out of me as it feels incomplete 🙃

You probably shouldn't ask me how many little plastic clips and pieces I've broken over the years....

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Glad it helped, and good luck!

I went out and wired it up, super easy! My hitch should be in a few days.

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The harness they're selling now doesn't need to tap into any of the wires, other than power and ground

Yeah those are nice!

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Can you please give the model of the trailer hitch and size? Very helpful video thank you

I wouldn't expect any issues, considering the car and our trailers all use LEDs. Plenty of other trailer adapters just use T-harnesses, which accomplish the same thing, piggy-backing off of whatever the factory uses to supply power to the rear lights.

I just put the connector through the bumper and wired it to a 4-pin to 7-pin adapter up under the bumper. There's no power wire or break controller that way but it's a much more robust connection.

Ok thanks. I am looking to install a 7 pins to have break connection to haul a small trailer.

@@poemond Neither of our trailers have brakes so it wouldn't matter

Unfortunately I can't answer that for you because we didn't measure it and the car was totaled shortly after this was filmed. I can tell you how tall the EUV is and I will get that for you tomorrow. It is a different hitch completely though

It is the EcoHitch and we bought it from eTrailer.com. Don't remember the price but it was one of the prier ones.

This is on a 2017 but we've also in installed an EcoHitch on a 2022 and also had to remove the bumper. I think the DrawTite might install differently.

@@jkfeatherranch Ok. I just started the installation. I will post a comment here if I don't have to remove it. Thanks.

@@19sloper best of luck!

@@jkfeatherranch I did get my installation done without removing the bumper fascia. Took loose the bottom screws, and was able to pull the bumper out enough to get the hitch behind it. My Drawtite is only a Class I, and is likely slimmer than yours, however.

@@19sloper awesome

Yes it depends on what kind of a road you're driving on and how much you are towing. We will be doing a follow-up going over what to expect in terms of range after we run some tests. We had a little hiccup and delay with doing that.

Not technically recommended but the hitch is rated for 2,000 lbs and seems to handle it fine

BTW I found the correct wires in the harness that heads up towards the roof. Same colours, just different location. They work fine.

In order to comply with federal law, GM ran redundant sets of tail lights. The set on the hatch itself are used when the hatch is closed, and the set on the bumper are used if the hatch is open. We don't own the car car anymore (totaled...) but from what I remember, there should be two sets of wires in that general area, the one towards the front of the car that is harder to access is the one that you want.

That's the rating of the ecohitch as well. Technically the both can't do anything because it's not rated for anything........ But who cares

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