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Part Numbers: SS48GV,C31074
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84 x 18 Heavy-duty plow with thick rubber cutting edge self-adjusts up and down to smoothly clear a path over concrete, gravel, and grass. Side scoops catch more snow with each push. Aluminum blade can be manually angled to either side.
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Installation is quick and simple - just slide included shank assembly into your 2" receiver and secure with pin.
Then lift the blade, one end at a time, onto the frame's holders and fasten with snap pins.
The SnowSport HD blade is mounted on an angled, 3-position shank assembly, allowing you to plow to the left, to the right or straight ahead.
To plow, lower the blade and begin driving; no wiring or hydraulics are needed. The unique push frame on the shank assembly allows the blade to move along the grade of the terrain for easier, more efficient plowing. The heavy-duty rubber cutting edge is effective yet turf friendly, collecting snow and squeegeeing slush without digging into the ground.
When you reverse direction, the blade lies back, skimming over the surface of the ground so that you can easily take another pass.
Once you're finished plowing, just lift the blade and refasten into the travel position. The blade is secure enough to travel at highway speeds, and the low-profile design keeps it from blocking your vehicle's headlights. Removal for storage is quick and easy. The plow can be used on the rear of your vehicle, making it a cinch to back out of your snow-packed driveway.
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Easily attach a variety of accessories to the front of your vehicle with this corrosion-resistant trailer hitch receiver. Perfect for winches, spare tire carriers and more.
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Hello neighbors, it's Brad here at etrailer and today we're taking a look and installing the CURT front hitch trailer receiver on a 2020 Chevy Colorado. Now this is what the front hitch is gonna look like on the front of the Colorado and it sits fairly far recessed back and there's a little bit of trimming on the air dam, but overall it looks fairly clean. The receiver tube opening is gonna be a two inch by two inch, which is gonna be great for a bunch of different accessories. You're gonna have tons of options whether you're planning on putting a winch, a bike rack, cargo carrier or even maybe a snowplow. There's plenty of those available in a two inch configuration. All of them are gonna stay in place with a 5/8 pin and clip.
This is not included with the front hitch but a lot of times when you pick up accessories they'll have one included. If you wanna get a locking version we have those available here at etrailer. This is really nice, especially if you plan on leaving your accessories on the front. You can lock 'em in place and know that no one's gonna walk away with them. Now this does have some pretty good weight capacities.
If you're planning on putting a ball mount on front to move some trailers around. You can go up to a 5,000 pound gross trailer weight rating which is gonna be the weight of the trailer plus the accessories that are loaded up. Your tongue weight rating is gonna be the downward pressure that's put on the receiver tube opening so any of your suspended accessories. So if you're putting a bike rack on front something like that it's gonna come in at 500 pounds, which is pretty good. You could probably get a pretty large bike rack or a large cargo carrier or even a plow up front that should be able to handle that capacity.
Now as far as the straight line pull if you're using a winch or in that application it's actually 9,000 pounds, so it's pretty serious. But you do want to check a vehicle's owner's manual to see if there's any weight capacities that you need to adhere to. And also take note of the accessories loaded up make sure you're not overloading any of them in the process. Now I did mention that it sits fairly far recessed back. So from the center of the hitch pin hole to the furthest point of the bumper it's looking like we have about five inches.
And that's gonna be important when choosing accessories to make sure that you have the clearance to where it's not gonna make contact with the front of the vehicle. It's also important if you're planning on getting a ball mount to move those trailers you might wanna get one with an extended shank to give yourself a little bit of clearance there. Now as far as the ground clearance it's fairly low but not terrible here. It's coming in at right at one foot. So that's something to keep in mind as you have something that may be suspended or honestly any of your accessories up front. If you're going over large bumps or an incline those are gonna want to go to the ground a little bit quicker. So keep that in mind when you have any accessories loaded up on front. Now as far as the installation goes, there's a little bit of trimming required on the front air dam. You also have to trim a little bit of the skid plate there, but not a whole lot. And overall it's really just four bolts that bolt into factory location. So this is a pretty easy installation. You can definitely do this in your driveway or garage. I do recommend having a floor jack ready to kind of pop this in place. But other than that you could probably knock this out in about half an hour or so. Follow along with the installation and we'll make sure you get your front hitch installed. First step for installation is determining whether or not you want to remove your front air dam. You can take this whole thing off and that front hitch is gonna sit here nice and clean but if you plan on keeping this you are gonna have to trim to give it clearance to be able to fit in this spot and it's pretty easy. There's some measurements that are found in the instruction manual and behind here I found a reference point that makes it pretty easy to center up. And what I did is this center notch here where there's a mounting screw just at the edge where these taper down, that's exactly three inches which the instruction calls for. So I ran my tape down just to give me a nice clean line and then measured up from the bottom three and a half inches. And that's gonna give us the spot that we need to trim out. As far as cutting this out, you can use a Dremel, you can use a multi-tool like I'll be using, really anything that cuts through this plastic 'cause we'll go back and kind of sand down any of the burrs. So we'll go ahead get this cut out. So we'll just go ahead and get these burrs knocked out. You can either use a file and just kind of rub it along here. If you don't have a file, you can use the backside of a knife blade that kind of peels away at that but either way it's gonna be on the front of your vehicle so might as well make it look clean. So go ahead and get that sanded down. Next we need to remove our skid plate. This is also gonna need to be trimmed if you plan on putting this back, we can do that a little bit later but we do need to take this down for clearance just to get everything bolted up. So it looks like we just have four 15 millimeter bolts holding this up so we'll go ahead, get those removed. Now we need to fish our hardware into the frame which is gonna create the mounting points for the upper tabs and the bolts need to go from the inside of the frame towards the outside and we'll be using a fish wire technique. So what we'll do is on the outside of the frame we'll feed this through and I'm gonna just put a bend on this other end, that way it doesn't pull through as we're putting our hardware in place. So what we'll do is take a spacer block and we'll feed this into the frame and then we'll take our carriage bolt and coil this up and also feed that into the frame. And this is going to eventually pull through and create the mounting point on the other side. But what we'll do for now, since we're gonna be raising the hitch up shortly, is just place this in the frame and keep your fish wire attached. This is gonna help us guide it up and also pull this through once we have it in place which is gonna help hold the front hitch while we're getting the hardware. Now we're just gonna repeat that same process on the other side as well. At this point you're gonna wanna grab an extra set of hands 'cause we're gonna raise this in place. And so take your fish wire, feed it through the hole and use this to kind of guide it up. And once we raise this up in place, we're gonna jostle that around, try to get that to pop through. And that way once we have that stud pulled through that's gonna allow us to kind of keep this hitch at least supported. So it's a little tight here, so just kind of move it around as necessary to get this to pop in. There we go. And with that pulled through on each side that will support our hitch but we can go ahead and pull off our pull wire here. Just make sure that that bolt doesn't go back in the frame. The weight of the front hitch should kind of hold that in place. And then take your serrated flange nut and just get a few threads started on each side and that way we have our hardware holding this up for us. Now we're gonna use a similar technique to get this in place. So this is gonna go around this front portion here and there's holes in the front. They're gonna align with our tabs. We're gonna have our fish wire feed through the front towards the back, and then we'll get our spacer block and carriage bolt in place. So I'll lift this up. Now something that might help too if you're doing this on the floor in your garage you can use a floor jack to kind of raise this up. Since we're on a lift here, I'll be using a pull jack but this should help kind of put that in place. And if we need to, we can also take that dead blow and kind of knock that up there as well. Now it was pretty tight but using the jack and just knocking that on the backside that caused it to kind of drop in place. Now be careful it did kind of jolt a little as I knocked that. But now that we have that in place, we can go ahead and get our jack out the way and our hardware in place. We're gonna feed the coiled end of our fish wire through our front tab and through the factory hole on our radiator support here. And then once we get this coil done here we'll just feed our spacer block up and then get our carriage bolt in place here and then pull tension on the front here. And then once we get that fed through we can grab our serrated flange nut and get it started. And just kind of keeping tension on the back by pushing on the head of the carriage bolt we're able to get this in place. So now we'll just do the same thing on the other side. It's very tight here, so just take your time. It's kind of not a great angle to get this started but we should get this as a little bit of patience. Get our hardware snug down before coming back with a torque trench, you don't have to get crazy here and with the carriage bolts sometimes it's a little bit tricky to get it spinning. The ones in the front here kind of sit in that plate so it holds it in. On the side though you may have to kind of pull on the nut as you're hand tightening it. Once you kind of get it snug, come back with an 11/16 and get this tightened down. And then go through and tighten down the rest of your hardware. So now with those snug down we need to make sure that they're torqued down properly. And this is gonna be important because it's gonna make sure that it's gonna be tight enough to obviously hold the hitch up in place, but also not too tight putting any stress on the hardware long term. So go ahead, use the torque sitting found in the instruction manual with that same 11/16 and torque down your hardware. Now the front might get a little tricky here. You might be able to sneak in a socket there but to properly torque it down I'm gonna be using a crow's foot attachment and that's gonna allow me to kind of slip this over I think and that way we can get this torqued down properly. It's still pretty tight even with the crow's foot so just be patient here. Now as far as our skid plate goes it pretty much does block exactly where we had our original bolts mounted up. So in the instruction manual you just kind of trim off a little bit of edge here and that's to account for the hardware that's kind of in here. So what it does is it slides kind of into those tabs or mounting tabs here so trimming that off should allow this. It almost lines up with the holes already. So I'm just gonna shave off a little bit of edge here and that should allow this to go back in. So just keep in mind you're not gonna have the hardware in the front holes, but it is sandwiched in place so it's not gonna be coming out. Yeah, and if you want a nice visual reference for this just go to the very top edge of the hole towards the edge that we'll be trimming off. And just use some painter's tape or a line here to put this in place. And then we'll just trim off that edge. Now we can get this slid in place and get our factory bolts put back in. With our skid plate put back in place, our front hitch is officially installed so all that's left to do, load up our accessories and start enjoying using our front hitch. And that was a look and installation of the CURT front hitch trailer receiver on a 2020 Chevy Colorado.
Average Customer Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (48 Customer Reviews)
84 x 18 Heavy-duty plow with thick rubber cutting edge self-adjusts up and down to smoothly clear a path over concrete, gravel, and grass. Side scoops catch more snow with each push. Aluminum blade can be manually angled to either side. Easily attach a variety of accessories to the front of your vehicle with this corrosion-resistant trailer hitch receiver. Perfect for winches, spare tire carriers and more.Took about 20mins to install. I think it will serve great purposes with a new winch hitch attachment and when I'm not using it I will install a step for easy engine access
Fantastic Hitch. Tucked in so well people dont see it until I tell them it is there. I have used it to push my trailer into tight spots in the woods, carry two coolers using a hitch carrier and with my Yakima Bed Extender extended all the way in the front to carry the long kayaks between the front hitch and the sport bar so I could still tow the trailer. The front hitch is a game changer for loading options
Great product and heavy duty construction. I have the GM metal front skid plate under my truck and the skid plate will not work with the front hitch without some modifications and time spent with the angle grinder. This is not etrailer's fault. Aftermarket product paired with an aftermarket product. I did get the skid plate mounted with the front hitch for an awesome combination of usefulness and protection. The only thing that I do not like is that the front of the hitch mounts to a crossbar under the radiator that appears very flimsy. Just be cautious about how much weight you apply to the hitch. Again, this isn't etrailer's fault. This is the same mounting location as all aftermarket front hitches. I feel sure that the hitch will serve it's intended use as a winch cradle mount. I will recommend a hitch receiver skid plate. I don't have one yet and I can see that I'll be dragging the hitch until I get my lift kit installed.
Solid and heavy duty as expected. Instructions need to be improved. Pics blacked out from being copied to many times. I had to grind down the edge of front mounting tabs to get it bolted to the cross bar.
The hitch was pretty easy to install and seems like it should work fine for the plow I purchased.
It didn’t fit my 2016 Chevy Colorado. I had to do major adjustments
Very straight forward and easy installation, as per instructions, if you have a buddy to help, it would have been a little faster. Removing the plastic skid plate attachment was definitely required as the forward bolt heads prevent the proper alignment of the receiver mounting holes. After installation I slid the plastic skid plate back into place,the entire front edge is held in place by the new installation and only the back two bolts were required to hold it securely. I have ordered several items over the years and they are always perfect fits and as easy installation as you could want for us do it ourselfers DIO's. I made a custom canoe tie down, the boat is shorter than my truck, and I didn't want the tie downs going across the hood.
This was very easy to install. I made a template from cardboard To mark the area to cut on on the plastic scoop. I simply cut the 3 by 3.5 inch area as recommended in the instructions. I used a Dremel tool and it cut very easily. I would recommend you get an extra set of hands to hold the hitch in place while installing the bolts. I also used the Dremel tool to cut down the skid plate. I cut it down by .5 inches per the directions. Make sure when reinstalling the skid plate you get the front in between the hitch and truck frame. This took a little playing to get this in place but once complete it fit very tight without the front bolts. Instructions were very good and completed job in under an hour.
We installed this on our 2011 Honda Ridgeline and a week later it snowed... And snowed.... And snowed.. 5 feet in 24 hours ( we live on the lake near Buffalo) and it's still snowing... This wasn't good, it was AWESOME! It was an easy install and assembly and worked absolutely perfect! We have a tough driveway and this kept it clear with no issues, no problems and we used it all day and night! When you spend that much on something you've never even seen before you can have reservations... It's worth every penny. It's solid ( more than we thought it would be) and does the job with ease. No .. It's good, but...... It's exactly as advertised and etrailer not only had the best price, the communication with my order was exceptional. Now... If only the town could send a plow down my street.....
Snowsport PlowEtrailer.com does it right from start to finish. On top of having a great web site, the staff are the best.
Keeping in mind, I ordered this in December, about 5 days before our first big snow, here in Ohio. Within an hour of ordering my SnowSport HD plow, I was upgraded to special priority shipping, that was a nice surprise! The plow arrived in about two days, in three boxes, as I ordered the front hitch at the same time. I feel bad for my UPS carrier, these boxes were not for the faint of heart. The assembly went smoothly, the manufacturer uses high end parts and everything is well marked and the instructions are easy to follow. I estimate it took me two hours to get everything put together, with a coffee break in between. I am impressed with the construction, wow. Heavy duty is right!
We had four inches of snow yesterday. I opened the garage door and went to work, two pushes to clear the parking spots, and one easy push down the two hundred foot gravel driveway. Like butter.
I was done. It took less then 15 minutes. I put this blade on my 2003 rear wheel drive, not 4x4, Chevy Blazer. I backed into the garage and it looked like I had just put the blade on, this blade could last a long time. I love it. I cant wait until we get a foot or more of snow, my wife wants to plow next time. Plus I have cable chains comming from Etrailer, they should be here any day. Just in case my two wheel drive has tracktion problems in the deeper snow. Thanks a bunch, Etrailer!
Put the front hitch on my 2016 Colorado for my snow sport snow plow and it fit perfect. I have bought 4 of these over the years for different vehicles and I highly recommend it.
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I had a few hiccups while assembling (over tightening things early, I think) but once I got it together it’s been awesome. Clears easily and efficiently. Have used to clear as much as 14” of snow (that required pushing off to the side more often) but once you get used to the technique this thing is a lifesaver. I can clear a 300’ long driveway in 15 minutes or so for an average 4-5” snowfall.
Easy solo install, works great.
It does what it's supposed to do, puts the snow from my driveways into piles not on my driveways. Got it over some of the other variations because it doesn't have electronics or wiring to break when its -30.
-Cutting edge that came with mine has been decently strong for running on gravel driveways.
-Light enough I can mount/unmount whenever I need to.
-Doesn't tear up lawns, which is where I have to push most of the snow I move.
--Needs a through eyebolt for quick connect back dragging rather than the ratchet strap idea they sell.
--Side panels are the weak link of the system
they cut in hard and make the plow jumpy while turning
the nubs on the back are also not deep enough to allow the plow to free stand when storing
and as hard as they are they get jammed right up with any sort of twig/leaf debris you might be plowing up
---I'll be replacing these with some sort of steel or aluminum panel with a tubing edge once they start to fail.
-- The sliding parts aren't powder coated so they'll need to be repainted every year or two or its going to rust right out.
Overall though it does what I wanted it to do, and paid for itself by saving me a lot of hours not having to shovel or snowblow. And even if my vehicle were ever to go down I could toss it on the back of another vehicle to get the snow moved.
It arrived in about 3 days, in 3 packages. I researched online extensively before choosing the SnowSport HD. Price at etrailer was about 10% cheaper than other sites. I already had the front hitch on my 2014 Honda Pilot, so all I had to do was assemble the plow and go play.
I had watched multiple videos of using and assembling the product, before ordering. All the time shoveling my driveway with a shovel as I had to get in and out and keep the driveway, ice free for visitors.
Everything was in the boxes, not a single bolt or washer missing. Assembly was as simple as I expected. I completed assembly without assistance in about 90 minutes, at a normal pace. Neither my cordless (nor corded) drill would screw the 3/8 self tapping screws to connect the two blade pieces, but it was not difficult to do them with a ratchet.
I set the height correctly for the front hitch, and I have a 6 inch hitch drop/riser that that should give me good plowing with the back hitch (have not tested yet, but expect good results)
The design is very well thought out, it is a quality product that will probably last the rest of my life (home use). I recommend it to others, and I would buy it again.
I ordered the plow as we finished getting about 10 inches of snow over a couple of days. The temperature stayed below freezing and there was still about 6 inches of snow to play in, when I had the plow mounted. Based on some reviews I had concerns that it might not do well, pushing piles of snow, or the snow that had been sitting for days. I was pleasantly surprised to be pushing even snow the city snow plow had mounded in front of the neighbors driveway. I plowed the neighbors from the street and about 80 feet in, without difficulty, three passes in a couple minutes and the job was done.
I live in a 1950s ranch home, with a single car garage (in basement) near Pittsburgh PA, my Honda Pilot fits in the garage with just inches to spare going through the door. The 7 foot blade is just a little narrower than the side view mirrors. So I can drive in and out. I have the blade and mount in the garage, and they are light enough that I can mount the blade front or back while in the warm garage and drive out to plow snow. Pull back in the garage, remove the blade and drive into to town to go to the office for work.
I am so excited to have this plow that, it probably will not snow more then a trace for a couple of years... Fate denying me the opportunity to play with it for a long time.
Great plow, fit my pickup good, cut my plowing to a third of the time. My pickup is a 1 ton diesel 4+4 bolted it on and went to work!!
Fits perfect. hardly tell that it's there. Works great for moving the boat.
Martin L.
9/3/2019
perfect
Fit perfect, easy install, love it for my surf rod rack!
The shipments arrived within days of ordering. The snow sport HD had easy to follow instructions . The plow was put together without any problems.
I had my local mechanic install the front receiver for me on my 2011 Ridgeline.
A day after everything was set to go, we got about six inches of wet snow.
I used the plow and I was very happy with it’s performance. I was able to clear my driveway and my neighbors in very little time. Overall I think it is a simple but effective plow for homeowners.
Mike E
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Received hitch very quickly and exactly what I needed.
This is the greatest invention I think that has came out in a long long time don't let How deep the snow gets worried you because this product will plow snow all day long with no problems I've plow through snow in my lawn that has been 3 foot deep measured with a solid yardstick no problem to push it and that's on a Jeep Grand Cherokee that's the nice thing about this plow when you go pushing snow the deeper it gets it just moves up and down and keeps pushing the snow in front of you just make sure you push the snow back far enough the first time as with any plow wherever you leave your pile and it freezes in you won't move it again super great product this is my second one my first one I bought 10 years ago and it worked for 10 years with no problems whatsoever finally sold the vehicle so I let the plow go with it big mistake but that's okay cuz I just bought a brand new one great product great design anybody thinks this product won't work in Canada Alaska Erie PA this plow will work wherever there is snow.
Very happy with this product and your service. Not my first purchase from etrailer, and it was my previous experience that brought me back again. Arrived quickly and in perfect shape. Fit perfectly and performs the same. I'll be back!
Due to weather conditions of rain and low clearance under my GMC Canyon, I had our local repair shop install the receiver. Not really easy unless using a lift. Fit perfectly and not really noticeable.
Plan to use to move my camper when parking in my driveway.
Received and installed the plow today 11/27/17. The directions were perfect also the components fit great . I had ordered and installed a two inch front hitch on my 2011 Ford Ranger 4.0 liter V6 with no issues. Now just waiting for some snow to fall in upstate NY. Very quick ordering and delivery will recommend
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David B.
10/8/2022
That is odd Bruce, there are other reviews on this product that state this fits on their 2016 Chevy Colorado. I think you may have gotten a flexed hitch. This is common and it isnt bad. It just happens due to the nature of shipping and the steel used.
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