Curt Trailer Hitch Receiver - Custom Fit - Class III - 2"

Video Transcript for Installing the Curt Trailer Hitch Receiver on your 2020 Buick Envision

Hey everybody. Ryan here at etrailer. Today on our 2020 Buick Envision, we're going to be taking a look at and showing you how to install the Curt trailer hitch receiver.So probably my favorite thing about this hitch is the way it looks. Appearance is important on a really nice car, so you don't want your hitch to take away from that. Well this one, the only thing you're going to be able to see is the receiver tube opening. You're not going to be able to see the rest of the hitch as it's kind of hidden behind the bumper.

And so it's just going to give us a clean factory look. So many of our Envision customers plan on using their hitch to carry around a bike rack. And if that's your plan, this one's going to work great for you, partly because it has that two inch by two inch receiver tube opening.So it's going to give you a lot of different options on what type of rack or accessory you can carry. But something I do want to point out, the hitch does sit back a little bit and that's partly to make the appearance look better, but with it sitting back a little bit, something you need to pay attention to is your clearance, so from your hitch pin hole to the edge of the bumper. And what you're looking for is the distance there.

You want to make sure any folding accessories can clear, so that's just something to keep in mind, if you plan on using those folding style accessories.So this is a class three hitch. We're going to have a nice-looking reinforced collar. That's also going to add some strength. And it's going to have the standard five eighth size pin hole. Now a pin and clip does not come included, but if you need one, you can find it here at etrailer.

I have loop style safety chain openings, which are quite large and in the open. So if you do plan on doing some towing, you should not have any issues using just about any size, so.Now as far as the hitch's weight capacities go, it's going to have a 525 pound maximum gross tongue weight rating. So that's going to be the amount of weight that's pushing down on the hitch. That's a pretty high number and that'll work good for just about any accessory, bike rack or cargo carrier that you'd want to use. As far as the maximum gross trailer weight rating goes, it's going to be 3,500 pounds.

So that's going to be the amount of weight pulling on the edge. So that's the weight of your trailer, plus anything that you might have on it. And I do always like to recommend, it's never a bad idea to check with your Buick's owner's manual to make sure your Envision can pull that much weight.Now I'm going to give you a couple of measurements, and you're going to use these to help figure out which hitch-mounted accessories to get. From the ground to the top inside edge of the receiver tube opening, it's going to be about 13 inches. So chances are pretty good. You're going to need to get a ball mount with a rise. From the center of the hitch pin hole to the edge of our rear bumper. It's going to be about six and a half inches, and you're going to use that measurement to figure out that if any folding accessories you might have can be stored in the upright position, without contacting the bumper.So overall, a versatile hitch that looks really good too. And believe it or not, even though most of our hitch is completely hidden, the installation really isn't that bad and shouldn't take you a whole lot of time. Speaking of which, let's go ahead and put it on together now. To begin our install, we're going to be working underneath the back of our Envision, and what we're going to have to do is take out a couple of the screws. That way the bottom of our bumper will have a little movement and give us some room to work. So we're going to have a screw here, and we're going to pull that out with a T15. If you follow that down, you're going to have one more on this side too. We'll do the same thing. Over here on the passenger side, if you look just behind your bumper, where this flange is, we're going to have a 15 millimeter nut that we'll go ahead and remove. And once we have this removed, anything we do to this side of the vehicle, we're also going to do to the other side because they're going to be set up the exact same way.So what now we can do is move to our frame rail and fish wire our hardware into place. So to do that, we're going to take the coiled end of one of our pull wires, and put it through this hole here closest to the back of our car. We're going to drop it out of that larger hole. Sometimes it's easier if you put a nice bend in the wire like that. Once we have that pulled out, you're going to take a spacer block, put it over the fish wire and the carriage bolt. That's actually going to thread on the fish wire. And we can push our hardware up into the frame rail, work it around, and get it to drop down like that.Now with an extra set of hands, we can raise our hitch into position. So you're going to want to take the pull wire, and put it through this hole here in the back of the hitch. You can raise it up. And what we're going to have to do, is push our hitch up. We're going to have to go over these bumper supports here, work them out, kind of while pushing our bumper back at the same time. So once you have the hitch over that stud that we removed the nut from, and our hardware dropped through, you can take off your pull wire. And what you're going to do is take a flange nut right here, and get this started hand tight.And for this bolt there, we're going to grab the factory nut that we removed, and get that started as well. With all of our hardware and place in hand tight, now we can snug it on up.Now we'll go ahead, grab our torque wrench, tighten everything down to the amount specified in the instructions.And don't forget to reinstall your Torx bit screws, here on the bottom of our bumper. And that'll finish up our look at and our installation of the Curt trailer hitch receiver on our 2020 Buick Envision.