Video Transcript for Installation Guide for the Roadmaster Crossbar-Style Base Plate Kit on a 2014 Nissan Versa

Today on our 2014 Nissan Versa, you're gonna be taking a look at and I'm gonna show you how to install the Road Master Easy-to-Base Plate kit with removal arms, part number 52353-1. It's gonna be one of five main components in a flat tow setup. The other four are gonna be your safety cables, your wiring, your breaking system, and your tow bar. This is what our base plate looks like when it's installed. This is going to give us a solid mounting point for our tow bar, when we're flat towing our Nissan. In a solid connection point between our RV and our Nissan while we're flat towing it.

This base plate is gonna work with quick disconnects and all Road Master tow bars. It's also gonna have twist lock removal arms. Simply slide them in, twist them, and they lock into place. Then we're gonna have our safety chain loops, then we're gonna have two rods for any wiring accessories you may want to add later on. This base plate is gonna have a black powder coat finish that's gonna resist any rust or corrosion.As you can see, it fits nicely inside the bumper fascia.

We have nothing that's protruding out, so it maintains a nice, clean look on the front of the vehicle. There's not gonna be any welding or drilling required. It's gonna mount directly to the frame rail and it's going to take the place of your bumper beam. First thing we need to do to start our installation is we need to remove our fascia. We're gonna start by removing the push-pin fasteners across the top here.

Take a flat head screwdriver, we're gonna pry off the center. What we wanna do is we wanna get the base out with it. Next we're gonna take a T25 torx bit, we're gonna have two torx head screws on each side, right at the lower corner of the fascia. Right at the lower, center part of our fascia, we're gonna have two ten millimeter head bolts we need to remove. And on each side of those bolts, we're gonna have two plastic push-pin fasteners.Here on our driver side, we're gonna have a few other push-pin fasteners we need to remove because this part here, this part of our fender liner, we're gonna have to pull it back once we get these off to get access to a ten millimeter bolt.

So we'll go ahead and pull these off the same way. Your directions do not say this, or don't tell you this, so. Only on our driver's side, we're gonna have a push-pin fastener on the inside of our fender liner, on the front side of our tire. We're gonna pull back our fender liner, we got a ten millimeter bolt there attaching our front fascia to our fender. We're gonna have one of those bolts on each side of the vehicle. Next thing we're gonna do, with an extra set of hands, we're gonna go ahead and remove our fascia. If you have fog lights you wanna disconnect those now or as you're taking this off, so make sure you don't just pull the fascia off.We're gonna start on the outside by our tires and work our way into this. We're just gonna slowly pry outward, and then we'll set our fascia aside once we get it off in a safe place. Next we're gonna remove the shock absorption pad. This will not be reinstalled. And then here on our driver side only, this pad that goes to our air dam, we'll take a trip panel tool, and we need to pop it off of our bumper beam. Next we're gonna take a 13 millimeter socket, on our passenger side we're gonna have four nuts to remove, on our driver side we're only gonna have three. So we'll go ahead and remove that, we're gonna remove our bumper core, and this will not be getting reinstalled.On our passenger side, on the back side of our bumper core, we're gonna have a push-pin fastener holding in this panel. There. Pull that out, you can remove your bumper core. Once we remove our bumper core, we're gonna go ahead and remove this panel right here. We'll have another fastener right down here on the bottom. Next thing we need to do is we're gonna have to remove this panel here on our driver side, this plastic air deflector. We're gonna have a couple push-pin fasteners up here on the top. We're gonna have one holding this in place but we're gonna have two that are holding this which slide into the top of it, so pull this one out here, and then the one here.Just do it like that. And then, we're gonna have another one right down here in this corner. There. And pull this out, and it will not be reinstalled. Next on our passenger's side, our washer fluid reservoir, we're gonna have a Phillip's head screw holding it in place. Go ahead and remove that, and it's just a plastic one so we don't have to push. Get that out. Next we're gonna take a ten millimeter head socket, we're gonna have two ten millimeter head bolts on the bottom of our reservoir bottle. Go ahead and remove those. Right on the back side of our willow liner, or the front side of our willow liner, back side top of our bottle here we're gonna have a third one we need to remove. Now we're just gonna lift our bottle off and we're gonna let it hang just like that.Next on our driver side, we're gonna have our radiator reservoir bottle. Ten millimeter head bolt on the top, go ahead and remove that. Our radiator reservoir bottle, we're just gonna pull up on it and make sure it's loose, then we're gonna slide it out of the way. Now let's set our main receiver brace in place, we're gonna line up the plate with the bolts coming out of our frame, just like that. Got that on both sides. Right on the inside, we're gonna have two push-pin fasteners, this is on our drivers side, on the inside of our air dam. Go ahead and remove those. And we're gonna set this aside for now.Once you remove your air dam, go ahead and reinstall the nuts to hold your receiver brace, or your main receiver brace in place. Here on our passenger side, you don't necessarily have to use the tape because you have plenty of room to reach in there. Driver's side you will have to, so I'm gonna show you how to do it so you can do it on the driver's side. Take that pipe spacer, and you're gonna have a bracket that looks like this for each side. It's actually gonna sit like this. This part is gonna be on the inside of the frame rail. We want the side that's gonna be on the inside of the frame rail, take this pipe space here and set it on over top that hole, then you take some tape and tape it to it. Cut the tape out the center of the hole, and set it just like this. I have two short teks bolts like this, gonna make sure we're using loctite on all of our bolts. Now the loctite does not come with your kit, your Basic Plate kit, so you will need to pick some of that up. You'll find some here on our website. Here at etrailor.com.We're gonna go down through the hole like that, you want two holes there, you lock washer in the nut, we're just gonna loosly install those for now. We're gonna take the long teks bolt, we're gonna go through and brace it like that in through the fold, and it's gonna come to the outside, out here where our washer is, where it was. We're gonna go ahead and file that up with a lock washer and a nut. Here on driver side, as I mentioned, you are gonna have to tape that space around there. To get the bolt in, if you reach up, right back in between your radiator and your frame here, you can slide that bolt into place right behind our air dam is where it came through. Next we're gonna tighten and torx all of our hardware to the specifications in the instructions.Next we can reinstall our washer reservoir and our radiator fluid reservoir. Reinstall your air dam. Once you get your base plate all tightened back down, you get everything back in place, go ahead and reinstall your fascia. Depending on which model Versa you have, you may have to do a little bit of trimming around your base plate. In our case, we did not. It just slid right into place. So if you're gonna stop here and just install your base plate, go ahead and reinstall all your hardware in reverse order from the way you took it out. If you're putting in a breaking system or any wiring, that wiring kit or stain plate dealer or air force one, it's a good idea while you have your fascia off to start installing that because it's easier to run all the wires back behind it.That'll do it for a look at an installation on the Road Master Easy-to-Base Plate kit with removable arms, part number 52353-1 on our 2014 Nissan Versa.