Kuat Pivot 2 Swing Away Hitch Extender for Bike Racks - 2" Hitches - Passenger's Side
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Kuat Pivot 2 Swing Away Hitch Extender for Bike Racks - 2" Hitches - Passenger's Side
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Kuat Hitch Adapters - PVP20B
- Swing-Away Hitch Adapter
- Bike Racks
- 250 lbs
- Kuat
This hitch extender converts your existing Kuat bike rack into a swing-away rack. It rotates out 90 degrees or 120 degrees on your passenger's side for quick and easy access to the rear of your vehicle. Includes locking, anti-rattle hitch pin.
Features:
- Pivoting hitch extender lets you swing your Kuat bike rack 90 degrees or 120 degrees away from the rear of your vehicle
- Swings away from passenger's side for easy access to hatch or tailgate area
- Works with Kuat NV 2.0, NV Base 2.0, Sherpa 2.0 and Transfer bike racks for 2" hitches
- Toggle clamp lets you quickly release latch so arm can swing out
- Pull safety lever to swing arm out 90 degrees
- Pull safety lever again to release or to pivot arm out to 120 degrees
- Tool-free installation in your hitch with hand-tightening cam system
- Turn cam knob to tighten extender in hitch and help eliminate rattle in the connection
- Bike rack installs into Pivot and secures with bike rack's hitch pin
- Included locking hitch pin secures extender to vehicle
- Durable, black powder coated steel resists corrosion
Specs:
- Application: 2" x 2" trailer hitch receivers
- Bike rack capacity: up to 4 bikes
- Weight capacity: 250 lbs
- Distance from center of hitch pin hole to:
- Rack pin hole: 12-3/16"
- Closest edge of carrier when folded: 5-3/16"
- Farthest edge of carrier when folded: 14-1/8"
- Farthest edge of carrier when unfolded: 42-9/16"
- Top of handle: 8-1/8"
- Shank rise: 3"
- Weight: 46 lbs
- Limited lifetime warranty
Notes:
- The Pivot is only compatible with Kuat bike racks that have 2" shanks
- Not for use with hitch adapters, reducers, or extenders
- Using this hitch extender will reduce your hitch's overall capacity by 50 percent
PVP20B Kuat Pivot 2 Swing Away Hitch Extender for Bike Racks - 2" Hitches - Passenger's Side
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Kuat Pivot 2 Swing Away Hitch Extender for Bike Racks - 2" Hitches - Passenger's Side - PVP20B
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (99 Customer Reviews)
This hitch extender converts your existing Kuat bike rack into a swing-away rack. It rotates out 90 degrees or 120 degrees on your passenger's side for quick and easy access to the rear of your vehicle. Includes locking, anti-rattle hitch pin.by: Trent 07/16/2022
The info Etrailer provides is outstanding. Makes purchasing the right product for your specific vehicle a breeze. Added this to our kuat 4 bike rack on our jeep, which has 33” spare. The measurements are precise. As for the product. Heavy duty and easy to use. The locking swing is fantastic.
by: Eddie 07/12/2022
I waited 6 months because it was on backorder. I was offered other swing away hitches but I chose to wait. After receiving it, nothing comes close to the ease of operation and how smooth the bearing system is. No binding at all. Well worth the wait.
by: Martin 05/03/2021
works as advertised. Installed it on my 2020 sprinter (2021 Winnebago Revel) with my old bike rack. It clears the ladder and swings out of the way to let me open the rear passenger door 90 degrees.
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About a year with the rack now and its still as solid as day 1. No rust, no slack.
Martin - 05/04/2022by: Chris07/14/2021
This is an excellent product. Very solidly made, easy to operate and easy to install/remove. I use it to swing my bike to the side so I can more easily access my hatch-area. Beware the small stub that sticks out however! It can bang your shins! The rack operation is smooth, and the safety-latch works very easily, and prevents the bikes from swinging back if the car is parked on a hill.
by: James04/22/2022
Very poor design and construction. The main problem is the tightening mechanism for the receiver. The ball bearing has crushed the part that it works against! I have tried to order the part you have not got them or can not get them several bike stores I do business with have reported same problem. Trying to have a machine shop custom make the part.
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Jenny N - 04/28/2022by: Doug10/25/2020
Product video by Adam on this website took the guesswork out of this purchase. We put the Pivot to task with our Ebikes and are totally satisfied with this well built and designed product.
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This was a great purchase we are very satisfied with its versatility. The Pivot is built robust and so easy to use.
Doug - 10/26/2021by: Nigel10/21/2021
This a quality made swing out hitch. I would recommend this to other people. We have two fairly heavy fat tire electric bikes we put on this. I have used this behind our camper, on our Jeep and also on a hitch I welded to our Art Show trailer that we tow behind our camper. The show trailer has a ramp style fold down door and this hitch allows us to access the trailer without taking the bikes or hitch off. I did have to modify the ramp as the ramp will not go down to the ground as the first arm of the hitch is still in the way when the bikes are swung out, but that would be the case with any brand of swing out hitch and the fact that I have adapted it to a purpose that is not a normal situation! FYI, and nothing to do with brand or quality...I was originally going to order the driver side swing out hitch and then changed it to the passenger side as I was thinking about one particular show where while unloading the trailer the bikes would swing out into traffic, which was not an option. But otherwise, swinging out the passenger side gets in the way of accessing the camper as our camper access steps are off center on the passenger side. It would be more convenient to have it swing away to the drivers side away from the steps. But that is just our situation and if you were to use the swing out hitch while parked on a road you would want the hitch to swing to the passenger side. The hitch was also too close to the camper steps while closed with the bikes on so I added a 1 foot extender hitch between the main hitch and the bike hitch which gave us clearer access to the camper. This creates a little more movement the further you get away from the main hitch but I tie the swing out hitch on either side to the camper to stabilise it while we travel to reduce sway. Overall it works great and I would recommend it.
Comments
This sounds like a great set up but I would like to note that this pivot hitch extender is not to be used with hitch adapters, reducers, or other extenders because using those things will reduce your hitchs overall capacity by 50 percent. While using the pivot hitch extender, you are already doing this.
-- Sierra K - 10/22/2021by: Nathan 01/08/2022
Awesome product. Very well built and works great on my Jeep since the spare tire on the back makes the tilt down feature of my Kuat NV2 rack ineffective. This swing away arm solved the problem. Delivery was fast and it was well packed.
by: Sam 08/03/2022
As always extremely satisfied with products and the excellent customer service from everyone at e trailer! Thanks again Sam!!!
by: Barry 07/13/2022
Assembly was easy. Wish the installation to the receiver was tool less, but they included wrench makes it pretty simple. Will be giving it a thorough test run next month.
by: Eric06/06/2022
Great addition for the bike rack..
by: Daniel 07/07/2020
The Kuat Swing Away is wonderful! It is simple to install and works perfectly. In the past we have left our bikes behind because we either had to take them and the bike rack off the Jeep at every stop or leave the back door and window closed for the duration. This product completely solves the problem and looks good too. The etrailer review video was spot on and a big help in making our decision to buy. I highly recommend this product and, as always, etrailer.
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We love our Kuat Swing Away. It has made taking the bikes so much easier. It is working perfectly, easy to open and close. Really happy we purchased this product
Daniel - 07/08/2021by: Anthony 07/29/2022
Excellent, heavy duty product that will be great for our ebikes.
by: Philip04/23/2022
Works great. Gives total access to the back of the Jeep. Had a small hardware issue and Kuat took care of it right away. Highly recommend.
by: Malvin04/15/2021
Love these kuat pivot. Ordered and shipped the same day. Thanks Lori.
by: E09/01/2021
It is very helpful and makes access to trunk muck easier.
My only issue is that it extends the bike rack out another few inches so the bike rack/hitch length is very long!
by: Alan F07/01/2022
Super quick shipping!
by: Linda02/17/2019
We use the Kuat Pivot Swing Away Hitch Extender on our Ram Promaster van that we have converted for camping. We put a 2 bike 1Up rack on it with 2 full-suspension mountain bikes. It is easy to swing away and easy to swing back and latch. When we swing it open with both bikes on the rack, we are able to fully open the back doors. It also has the added benefit of extending the bike rack further from the van, which eliminates the risk of our handle bars tapping the rear doors on rough roads. It is also nice that when the rack is swung open, you just drop the safety pin in a hole to keep the rack in its open position. We have previously owned a hang-type swing-open bike rack, and I much prefer this setup because the bikes are more firmly secured, and I don't have to deal with top-bar 'bones', and various pads and cushions. It is also easier to operate. Highly recommended.
by: Matthew06/22/2021
The Kuat Pivot is going to work exactly like I wanted it to while I'm overlanding. I got it so I could use a cargo carrier and swing it out of the way when I needed to get access to the rear of my Renegade.
by: Wade05/29/2019
Great product...super solid design and build. Couple of little niggles though:
For my specific application (sprinter van) it doesn't quite swing wide enough to allow the rear door to "lock" in the open position. That's mostly a result of modern super wide mountain bike handlebars though. Works with road bikes.
The tightening mechanism for the locking lever is pretty old school and I think could be refined to make it easier. As it is if you notice if being looser than you like you gotta go find at least one box or adjustable crescent wrench and deal with 4 separate nuts.
All in all does what it is intended to do admirably
by: John 10/21/2021
This hitch adapter/extender gives great access to the back of my Jeep. It’s wobble free and solid! Love it.
by: Kirra04/11/2021
I love the swing arm. Makes it super easy to open my back hatch door when the bike rack is on. It does push the bikes quite a bit further back behind that car which makes it much longer for parking, etc. but would rather have the swing arm than not!
by: Anthon07/15/2018
The Kuat Pivot swing away hitch extender mount is a great product. It definitely needs some improvement but for the price against the other competitors, its a good buy. This item is built like a tank and good hitch mount if you want to do some tail gating or access your trunck with no problem.
by: Matthew09/08/2018
Digging this rack! Finally a fully functional solution for Jeeps!
Install is a breeze and removal will be equally simple when it’s time to take the Jeep offroad. Opens and closes easily and bomber construction.
Susan from etrailer was super helpful & communicative. Product was initially backordered but she kept me posted.
My setup: I’m running the Pivot on a Wrangler JK with AEV bumper/tire carrier and using a 1UP tray.
by: Rex12/12/2018
This swing away hitch is perfect for my bicycle use. When I carry my electric bikes the swing away allows easy access to the back of my truck or van. With the weight of an electric bike (60 lbs.) a tilt down bike rack is difficult to use. With the swing away hitch I keep the bikes upright and swing the hitch and bikes out of the way of the truck tailgate or van doors. Great product.
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