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If your front mount trailer hitch ends up behind your license plate, just use this front mount license plate holder. It can be held in place with a standard pin and clip; or, to better secure it, use a standard hitch lock.
C31002 Curt Trailer Hitch Mounted License Plate Holder
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Hi there front hitch owners. Today, we're going to be taking a look at CURT's Hitch Mount License Plate Relocation Bracket. Now you may be wondering why I've got a license plate on my vehicle. Why do I need a license plate relocation bracket Well, that really just depends on what your intentions are. Maybe you're wanting to put an aftermarket bumper on the front and that may eliminate your license plate bracket, but you've got a front mount hitch already on there, so you can easily Mount it up to that. Or maybe you're one to add a brush guard, and that may run across your license plate here and obstruct it, so to keep you legal, we can relocate it further down below here.Depending on your vehicle, if you do install a front mount hitch in a lot of cases, the bracket may be in the way, so you're going to have to remove your original license plate anyway, for that installation.
Now, we didn't have to do that here on this vehicle, but on many of your trucks out there, you do have to.It's designed to fit in standard two inch by two inch receivers and uses a five eight inch hitch pin and clip secure it. One doesn't come included with the hitch, but if you need a hitch pin and clip, you can get one in etrailer.com here. This not only works on our front hitch, but it'll also work in your rear hitch if it's also a two inch by two inch opening.We're now here at the back of a truck with it slid into the receiver here at the back. Again, this is really, if you just need to get your license plate visible. If you've got any accessories here at the back, maybe you've got some stuff strapped down, you've got your tailgate removed and things might be hanging over where your plate normally is.
We can easily just slide this in here with our plate on it and drop it down below those loads.When you're ready to install your plate mount, there are two different hitch pin holes, so you can set the depths that you want. Simply slide it into your receiver and line up the holes in your relocation plate with the ones in your hitch. We can have it extend out if we have accessories that run up here on top, that may obstruct it or keep it from going all the way back. Or if it's not an issue, if this is going to sit completely below our accessories, then we can tuck it in even further to bring it closer to the truck, just to help increase the appearance of it, so it's not sticking out so much.It can also be installed in the rise position where the majority of it goes up, whichever one works best for your application. The plate is designed to work with any standard license plate.
If we hold it up there, you can see that the slotted holes in our license plate line up with the slotted holes on the plate mount here. The one thing that I did notice though, is that the holes here in the plate mount are significantly larger than what you would have on your license plate. If you we're trying to use just the regular hardware that you typically would use, you we're going to need to use some vendor washers or else that hardware is simply just going to pull through. This is a typical hardware that you would use. You can see here, I can pass it straight through, so we'll be using these fender washers on the back side to prevent that from happening.Now, the hardware doesn't come included with your mounting bracket, but you can pick some up at your local hardware store.
We're just going to be using some washers with small bolts to run it through. On the backside, we're going to use that larger fender washer. Then we're going to secure it with a nylon locking nut. You could also use just a regular nut with a lock washer if you have that type of hardware.We can then tighten our hardware down. We're going to be using an 11 millimeter wrench for our nut. That's probably the most common size. We're also going to center our plate here in the front when we go to tighten it down. Then we're just going to zip that tight. Once it is snug, we're just going to stop there. There's no reason to over-tighten it. That's just going to warp your license plate.Now there are four sets of holes on your bracket. So you could put two on the top and bottom, but really you only need to secure it with two, whether you choose it to be on the top or the bottom, it doesn't really matter which one. That'll hold it securely in place.To help match your vehicle, it features a black powder coat finish, and that also protects the solid steel construction from any rust or corrosion ensuring long lasting operation. That completes our look at CURT's Hitch Mounted License Plate Relocation Bracket.
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Ratings & Reviews
Tec
3/28/2015
Has held up great, fits great, and keeps me legal.
Bruce
4/12/2020
Works great for my smv sign on the back of side by side.
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Brooke M.
2/28/2025
It looks awesome, David. I have to say, that color blue is so neat! I love the richness and depth -- thanks for sending in the photos too!