Video Transcript for Install: Curt Trailer Hitch Receiver on a 2005 Kia Sedona

Today on our 2005 Kia Sedona, we're going to be taking a look at and installing the Curt Trailer Hitch Receiver, Class III, part number C13340. Here's what it looks like once it's installed. You can see it's a nice, round, tubular design. It's going to sit up flush against the bottom side of our bumper. Got these nice flat safety chain loops with fairly large diameter holes. That's going to allow most of your tow hooks to be able to fit thought there easily.

5/8's hitch pin hole. Does have the decorative collar and reinforcing collar on the outside of our receiver tube. It's going to be a bolt on design. No drilling required. Going to come with all the hardware needed to install it and a complete set of instructions. This hitch is rated for 300 pounds of towing weight which they're downward force.

3500 pounds of total trailer weight towing capacity. Which is the amount your loaded trailer can be. If you're going to use a weight distribution, you're going to bump up your tongue weight to 500 pounds and 5,000 pounds for our gross trailer weight. Let's go ahead and get you some measurements. This is going to help at selecting your accessories such as a bottom out cargo carrier or bike rack. From the center of the hitch pin hole is equal to the outer most part of our rear bumper.

From the ground to the inside of the receiver tube is about 14 inches. Let's go ahead and try to install it. Beginner installation, we're going to go ahead and locate our attaching points. We're going to use these two points here and this tow loop inaudible 00:01:42 same on the other side. We're going to start by removing these two 17 millimeter bolts. Take our socket, remove those.

We'll do the same on the other side as well. We're going to take one of our new bolts and go ahead and throw it in by hand to make sure it's going to go in nice and easy in all of our holes. We're going to have some 12 millimeter bolts and some conical tooth washers we're going to slide on. We're going to have the teeth from the conical tooth washer facing into the hitch. We can go ahead and put our hitch up into place and we're going to attach it through the inaudible 00:02:25 factory weld nuts with a supplied hardware. If we can get an extra set of hands and we're going to set our hitch up into place. We're going to install all four of those bolts into the factory weld nuts. We're going to take our half inch bolt through the spacer block, place on top. Place another spacer block on the bottom side. Another 1/2 flange nut. I'm going to go ahead and tighten that down. We're going to go ahead and inaudible 00:03:04 all these down using a 3/25 inch wrench. Once we have them snugged down we can torque in those specifications listed in our instructions. Torque the other side. Our installation will be complete. That's going to do it for our look at and install the Curt Trailer Hitch Receiver Class III, part number C11340 on our 2005 Kia Sedona.