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Custom designed to fit your vehicle so it can be safely towed behind your RV, this base plate has easily removable arms that offer a seamless look when you're not flat towing. Base plate bolts directly to your chassis, so no welding is required.
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This base plate's hidden design creates a clean and seamless look. The bracket arms are easily removable, creating a slick appearance when you're not flat towing. Because the arms can be removed, you also won't have to worry about banging your leg into any protruding arms when you walk by.
Attaching and removing the bracket arms is a breeze. To attach the arms to the base plate, simply insert them into the receivers and rotate them until they lock into place. Once you're finished towing and want to remove the arms, pull the pin to disengage the lock, rotate the arms, and remove them from the receivers. Finally, plug up the now empty receivers with the included receiver covers to help keep dirt and debris out of the base plate and provide a finished look.
Flat towing your vehicle is much more convenient than using a trailer or a tow dolly. These other options take up much more storage space, leaving you less room both at home and at the campsite. In addition, securing your vehicle to a trailer or tow dolly can be a hassle and more time consuming than hooking up with a tow bar.
There are 5 basic components needed when flat towing a vehicle: a tow bar, a base plate kit, a safety cable set, tow bar wiring, and a supplemental braking system.
The tow bar links your towed car to your motorhome. It attaches to the custom-fit base plates that install on the frame of your towed car. Safety cables ensure that your towed car does not separate from your motorhome in the event that your tow bar becomes detached. Tow bar wiring allows your towed vehicle's signal lights to sync up with your motorhome's tail lights, which is required by law in most states. Finally, the supplemental braking system - also required in most states - brakes your towed car when the brakes in your motorhome are activated, preventing wear on the motorhome and decreasing braking distance for your entire setup.
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (2296 Customer Reviews)
Custom designed to fit your vehicle so it can be safely towed behind your RV, this base plate has easily removable arms that offer a seamless look when you're not flat towing. Base plate bolts directly to your chassis, so no welding is required.I ordered all the parts required to safely flat tow out 2017 Jeep Cherokee Trailhawk from ETrailer.com. The only part they didn't have was the Mopar Flat Tow Enhancement kit Jeep requires to flat tow this model.
Ordering from them was great, the website is easy to use and I was able to locate all the pieces compatible with my specific vehicle. The expert recommendations help my decision choosing the right parts. I ordered from ETrailer even though I found some of the parts on other websites a little cheaper. I chose to pay a little more because of all the effort ETrailer has put into installation videos and guides. I was very pleasantly surprised to learn from ETrailer that they have a price match guarantee!
So my equipment consisted of the following
Mopar Flat Tow Enhancement Kit (from Jeep)
Roadmaster Battery Charge Line Kit for Towed Vehicles
Mighty Cord 7-Way RV Style Trailer Connector - Trailer End
WesBarg 7-Way, RV-Style Connector w/ 6' Long Coiled Cable Trailer End
Pollak Black Plastic, 7-Pole, RV Blade-Style Trailer Socket - Vehicle End
Hopkins Custom Tail Light Wiring Kit for Towed Vehicles
SMI Stay-IN-Play DUO Supplemental Braking System
Roadmaster Brake-Lite Relay Kit for Towed Vehicles
Blue Ox Alpha Tow Bar - Motor Home Mount - 6,500 lbs
Blue Ox Base Plate Kit - Removable Arms
Blue Ox Tow Bar Cover - Aladdin, Aventa LX, Aventa II
The installation videos are great but not all inclusive. Take the time to read the instructions that come with the parts. This is a major project, I took about 30 hrs over a full week but as you'll see in the pictures I took s few extra steps to make a cleaner look.
Some of those extra steps:
The base plate install requires the bumper be modified cutting off a flange on each side, I spray painted this to prevent corrosion.
In the install video of the baseplate on the drivers side they use an extra quick link (not included) to run the safety cable around the wiper fluid reservoir. I took the time to remove it and run the safety cable behind it.
I didn't want our nice new vehicle to look like it can be towed so I played the brake away switch and 7 way trailer plug behind the license plate, so when not being towed our vehicle looks great!
Some things to be aware of. The Brake air cylinder that mounts to the brake pedal with four bolts may need longer bolts, it did on our Jeep. Spend the money for weather tight heat shrink crimp fittings. The Hopkins wire harness was about 1.5 feet short to get to my plug location. Buy extra zip ties, electrical tape and split loom.
I recommend reading all the various installation manuals and watching all the videos because the various components integrate together and if you install one at a time you'll be doing a bunch of extra work.
The brake light relay is a real pain in the butt, not because of the hardware but because of the location of the brake light switch which is very hard to get to.
Overall I am very happy with the products and how the installation looks. We haven't towed it yet but do not expect any problems.
We installed the face plates and they were a little more work then we anticipated, some of the holes were off quite a bit, but we were able to make them work with pry bars. Lol
We did find that taking bumper off just four more bolts made the metal trimming a lot easier. The hardest part would be R & R the fascia on the 2018 trailhawk.
But all looks good when done and saved lots of money over paying for a install.
Received wrong parts /some used some wrong. Called was told a new kit would be sent out but no e mail stating the fact or eta etc oh and no pins
I installed the base plates on a 2016 jeep trail hawk and it went together as advertised. The video was at huge help step by step directions. I have no problem recommending etrailer to anyone. I will be buying more.
Oh yeah shipping was very quick!
It's my 3rd blue ox baseplate and I've installed all of them myself.The 1rst one shipped to me, wasn't close to fitting in the Jeep Cherokee pre existing mounting holes.After numerous calls to blue ox and sending? them pics of the misaligned predrilled holes in the base plate,they finally agreed to send me an replacement.Wasnt much better had to ream out most of the holes to make it fit. I mean a lot of reaming. I've had 3 different base plates from them.96 Cherokee 2006 liberty and this 2016 trailhawk.Extremly disappointed in the last purchase.Plus their attitude was disappointing.Just saying you asked. How ever the folks at E trailer were fine.There you have it
The Blue Ox base plates, tow bar and wiring came in within days of ordering. Great customer service. I had questions on what I needed and the representative took his time to explain all that was needed to get the correct equipment for my set up. I would recommend ETRAILER to everyone. I am looking for bike racks and ETRAILER has the one I need!! Will definitely be buying more from here. Great customer service & prices!!
The Blue Ox baseplate was easy to install because ETrailer provided a downloadable installation video. I placed my lap top computer near our work area and paused then played the video as we followed the installation process to completion. This was so much easier to follow then printed instruction.
40 foot Newmar Northern Star
Jeep Cherokee Trail Hawk
Blue Ox Aladdin tow bar
Delivery was quick and no missing parts. Installation was fairly easy not due to any issue with the product just tight spaces in the Jeep. As always quality is top notch, as well as pricing.
Thanks again, etrailer!
just a bit of confusion with installation but it works awesome
I received my Blue Ox base plate and accessories quickly after determining what was needed. Great customer service from Jean, who was very knowledgeable and put together a web page showing all the products I was interested in buying. I will definitely order from them again.
Very happy with the BlueOx product and great service from etrailer. Would highly recommend this company to anyone needing any of the products they sell. Also purchased a bicycle rack from them recently at a great price and was very happy with it also.
Perfect fit and function.
a very well made product. I tow a 2016 jeep cherokee trailhawk behind a georgetown377. easy hook up and easy to stow away. I am very satisfied and would recommend this product to any one.
This makes it so easy to hook up our RV to Jeep Cherokee.
My experience with etrailer.com was excellent. I placed my order with no problems. Received prompt free delivery. I will certainly use them in the future
Easy to install ,just takes time. I like the removable pins,no leg banging.
Great product it needed to be modified as it was in the video. I hope they will correct that. That took some time to do the Mod. After MOD it fits nice and looks good also.
Quick and easy to set up and connect
I have not installed it yet but your handling of product was great
Working great after a year
I won't say it was simple, but the instruction and videos get you to completion with confidence.
they we quick to get the parts and shipped as soon as they were able to get it in stock. The parts were just what I needed to install on my vehicle.
Very good product and the service was g reat.
worked good good fast service
Great product
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