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How to Install the Blue Ox Alpha 2 Non-Binding Tow Bar on a 2019 Mini Cooper

Play video How to Install the Blue Ox Alpha 2 Non-Binding Tow Bar on a 2019 Mini Cooper

Hi there Mini owners. Today in your 2019 Mini Cooper S, we're gonna be taking a look at and showing you how to install Blue Ox's Alpha tow bar. And this is what our tow bar looks like when it's installed. The Alpha 2 tow bar is going to be a non-binding tow bar, which is an important piece to be able to disconnect your tow bar without any additional tools. We can see here that these levers are located on the arms of our tow bar, and when we get to our destination, if we're not perfectly straight when we park our motor home and our vehicle, and if we're not on perfectly level ground between the two, like if your vehicle here is a little bit curved this way, motor home's a little bit different, that can make removing the pins extremely difficult because once you drive off, they extend and lock it into an extended position. To release it from that locked position, you can press down on the lever.



A Closer look at the Blue Ox Alpha 2 Non-Binding Tow Bar on a 2013 Mini Cooper

Play video A Closer look at the Blue Ox Alpha 2 Non-Binding Tow Bar on a 2013 Mini Cooper

It's Brad here at etrailer, and today we're taking a look at the Blue Ox Alpha 2 Tow Bar on a 2013 Mini Cooper. Now this is a great well-known tow bar with pretty good capacities. This one's rated at 6,500 pounds, which is plenty for our Cooper, but if you ever move up to a larger flat-towed vehicle down the road, this is gonna hold up to that 6,500 pounds, which really opens up the window as to what you can tow. Now, things that I always recommend to people are, is gonna be a non-binding tow bar, and this is one of them. And what that means is when you flat-tow your vehicles, the arms will extend and lock into place, and that's what they're supposed to do. The hard part is, is when you're ready to unhook your vehicle, sometimes these arms can bind if you're not on perfectly flat level ground.



Installation Guide for the Roadmaster EZ Base Plate Kit on a 2009 Mini Cooper

Play video Installation Guide for the Roadmaster EZ Base Plate Kit on a 2009 Mini Cooper

Today in this 2009 Mini Cooper, we're going to install tow bar part number RN-520. Now, I'll start of our Mini Cooper's already been outfitted with the base plate from Road Master part number 521877-1. We'll work with the quick disconnect system. To the mounting bracket that's been previously installed on the Mini Cooper, we're going to add the two disconnects. They're labelled for the driver's side and passenger side. We'll start in the driver's side first. We'll hold the driver's side bracket up to the mounting bracket then our safety plate.



Mount: Roadmaster Falcon 2 Tow Bar on a 2006 Mini Cooper

Play video Mount: Roadmaster Falcon 2 Tow Bar on a 2006 Mini Cooper

Hey, everybody, Ryan here at etrailer. Today on our 2006 Mini Cooper, we're going to be checking out the Roadmaster Falcon Two Tow Bar. Before we kinda check the tow bar out itself and really kind of dig into it, I figured it would be useful just to kind of refresh yourselves on the five main components that we're going to need to flat tow a vehicle behind our motor home in the first place. First component is going to be a base plate, and that base plate is going to provide us with a solid and reliable connection point that way we can hook our tow bar up to it. Tow bar is going to be the second component, and, you know, this is going to provide us with the physical link that connects the front of our towed vehicle to the back of our RV. The third main component will be safety cables, and these are there in the event of an unlikely disconnect, these are going to keep both of our vehicles pair together.



Blue Ox Tow Bar Installation - 2005 Mini Cooper

Play video Blue Ox Tow Bar Installation - 2005 Mini Cooper

Today on our 2005 Mini Cooper we're going to be installing the Blue Ox Alpha Tow Bar, Part Number BX7365. In addition to the tow bar, we're also going to be using some items from the Blue Ox towing accessory kit, Part Number BX88231. Now, once the tow bar is hooked up, you want to make sure that when you first start out that you do a series of some S-turns to help make sure that the tow bar fully extends and locks into that position. Now, when the arms are fully extended the handles will pop up into this upright position like this. That tells you that the arms are fully extended and in the lock position. Now, here's what you get with the Alpha tow bar. You get the tow bar, you get two safety cables, you get a hitch pin.





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