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This fully welded trailer hitch receiver bolts onto your vehicle's frame with no welding required. Powder coated steel is sturdy and corrosion resistant.
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Product install wasn't too bad, but I agree with the Moderate rating on the instructions.
A couple notes from my experience installing on the 2024 Equinox EV:
-Removing the underbody panel required removal of 16 7mm hex heads. There were no T15 screws or push pins involved.
-The depth of the trim slots is shown as 7.5" on the reference diagram. This was a bit excessive as you can see from the picture.
-There is no way to get two of the 7mm hex heads back in because the holes are completely covered by the hitch.
All told, not a bad install.
Does not fit 2025 Prologue EX. The holes in the car floor are at least 1.5” off in the outboard direction. See photos. Maybe I got a bad one, or it was incorrectly labeled. It’s too sturdy for the brackets to be bent. My guess is the model changed slightly from ‘24 to ‘25 and this wasn’t re-tested.
I was committed and need it, so I drilled new holes which was a giant pain. 4 hour install and I still need to trim the rear air dam/wind deflector plastic to fit.
Lastly, I’ve never seen more poorly printed instructions. The text was fine, but the photos are so dark you can’t see anything. Disappointed in Curt this time.
Nick S.
11/10/2025
It sounds like you may have gotten a warped or bent hitch and that is why the holes were not lined up. We will reach out to you shortly and help get this resolved.
The product is well made and installed easily however, the instructions were not very good and the pictures did not match up to the underside of my Equinox EV. I do think the Hitch receiver could have come out a couple of more inches so that I don't need an extension for my bicycle rack.
The installation went pretty straightforward on the 2025 Equinox EV. Two things to note: 1) The directions showed enlarging of the most forward holes in the frame rails to run the bolts/fish wires up thru, when actually they need to be placed thru the center of the 3 holes, and 2) the hitch tucks very far in under the bumper section of the vehicle, which will likely necessitate an extension for many accessories. It would be nice if the receiver tube projected 4-6 inches further out.
The hitch looks well-built and quality. I just think they need to look at the hole spacing on the hitch. I installed it on my 2025 Equinox EV. It just did not fit without modification to the hole spacing. I had to grind the holes bigger to make it fit and not just a little but a lot. It looks that multiple people are having this problem with installation. I wish I would have gone with the OEM hitch. At no fault of Curt, this also sits quite low and far underneath the car and does not allow my bike One-Up rack to fold up all the way.
Victoria H.
4/11/2025
Appreciate your insight Aaron! Sounds like a solid hitch, but that mounting issue on the 2025 Equinox EV is definitely something future buyers should know about. I'll see what I can do to pass this information onto Curt.
So far, so good! I had it installed by a mechanic for $100. With the RockyMount bike trailer I bought, it works great. Given that the mounted hitch sits several inches under the car from the bumper (Chevy Equinox EV), the bike trailer, when folded up, comes flush against the car. In fact, we needed to use a file to shave off an 1/4 inch of the tire tray so it could fold up and not gouge the car. I hated to do that to our new bike trailer but it’s no worse for the wear.
It is a substantial hitch mounted to thin sheet metal on the car. I would not use this for towing anything near the 3500 lb rating.
It is very disappointing that Curt continues to sell this with the mounting slots too narrow to easily mount on the car. How much work would it be on their part to widen the slots inward (toward the center of the car) a quarter inch?
I successfully installed the Curt trailer hitch receiver onto a 2024 Chevy Equinox EV. The one problem is that the predrilled holes on the hitch receiver do not line up with the mounting holes on the Equinox. The hitch holes were too far apart. We used the die grinder to enlarge the elongated holes toward the center of the hitch by 1/4 inch on either side. Curt needs to remeasure their "custom fit". Other than the one issue, installation was straight forward. It is a two-man job. Trimming of the underbody panel requires only a 1/2 inch wide slit on either side. The hitch receiver is very beefy, and is probably overkill for the bike rack that we are using it for.
I was very impressed with the design and figured it was going to be a piece of cake install. Unfortunately, the entire bracket assembly was too wide from side to side center to center on the bolt holes. I needed to elongate the holes on one side because I already pulled my fish wires out of the other side. so I had hopes that elongating the holes on that one side would give me enough room to get a fit overall. Unfortunately not the case. I had to take out the other bolts and notch about a quarter inch to 5/16 “off of that side as well. Once I elongated all four holes in the frame , it fit nicely. It was a lot of work, taking the hitch out and back in a few times to get the proper fit. Don’t know if the set of plans for the fabricator was off or the fabricator didn’t do such a good accurate job. I would’ve given it five star. I thought it was a perfectly excellent , install with the exception of the fact that it didn’t fit out of the box.
This was for a 2024 Chevy equinox EV. I did not have to trim the under panel, except to cut a groove for each of the hitch mounting brackets. May be a half inch wide.
Quite stout and well made/finished. The fit was good but not perfect. It is about a 1/4 too wide,so the slotted mounting holes don't line up properly with the corresponding holes in the Equinox EV frame. By leaving the nuts on one side VERY loose, I was just able to get the bolts on the other side into the slots on that side, but that meant that all 4 bolts were at an angle, pressed against the inner side of each slot, pointing at about 25 degrees away from the center of the car. I was able to tighten all of them, but they were under some side load.
arrived fast!
I Got it professionally installed. Works great.
Haven't installed it yet but received it a day early. Thank you
Perfect fit
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Brooke M.
6/4/2025
I appreciate the photos and the honest report on the install, Andrew! Thank you! Happy to hear the overall consensus is it's good :) What will you be using your new hitch with?