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This custom-fit base plate kit lets you hook up your tow bar to your vehicle. Tabless design provides a clean, unobtrusive look for your towed car even when not hooked up. Simple bolt-on installation.
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Setting up these tabless base plates for use with your Demco tow bar is fast and easy. They easily bolt onto the ends of your tow bar. And because the tabs remain on your tow bar at all times instead of protruding from your vehicle, your car maintains a clean look when it's not being towed.
Using the Demco Tabless base plates to attach and remove your tow bar couldn't be easier. With the base plate tabs attached to your tow bar arms, simply insert the tabs into the receivers on your vehicle and twist to lock them in place. Insert the included pull pins to add an extra layer of security, ensuring the tabs stay put. To remove each arm, simply tug the pull pin to disengage the lock, twist the tow bar arm, and pull the tab out of the bracket.
Keep dirt and debris out of the base plate receivers with the included covers. These high-density polyethylene covers easily snap into place over each pull point when your tow bar is not attached. Limiting internal corrosion makes it easier to slide the tabs in and out and helps to prevent seizing so that the tabs don't get stuck.
Demco makes adapters for use with other tow bars so that you don't have to go through the added hassle and expense of replacing your tow bar when outfitting your new towed car with base plates.
| Type of Tow Bar | Adapter |
|---|---|
| Roadmaster Tracker, Falcon 2, Falcon All-Terrain, Blackhawk, Blackhawk All-Terrain, and Sterling tow bars with serial numbers up to 14,500 | DM9523036 |
| Roadmaster Nighthawk All-Terrain, Sterling All-Terrain, and Sterling tow bars with serial numbers 14,501 and above | DM9523062 |
| Roadmaster Eagle and Eagle 8000 | DM9523014 |
| Roadmaster Falcon 5250 | DM9523023 |
| Blue Ox | No adapter needed |
| etrailer | No adapter needed |
| Demco Kwik-Tow | No adapter needed |
| Curt Rambler | No adapter needed |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (17 Customer Reviews)
This custom-fit base plate kit lets you hook up your tow bar to your vehicle. Tabless design provides a clean, unobtrusive look for your towed car even when not hooked up. Simple bolt-on installation.I don’t know who said this could be installed without cutting the facia (see answered questions…one says no cutting required and. Another says you don’t have to remove louvers), but on my 2024 Maverick Hybrid, there were two types of cuts required. First, the air dam has to be trimmed, but that is actually already in the instructions, so as long as you pre read those, you know about that. But for me, I HAD to remove 2 sets of the louvers (4 pieces total) which in reality was only a 1 hour add on once i knew it had to be done, but the big problem is that once the tow bar was installed (with no shining washers trying to clear the louvers), my facial would not reinstall. The holes along the bottom were about 1/2” from being able to be rebolted. I found the vertical bars in the grill that goes in front of the tow bar were hitting on the tow bar itself as well as the welds on the front. I had to cut some of the vertical bars and force the facia into place. It’s on, but I’m not happy that it is still under stress because the bar sits too far forward. That said, there is no way to make the bar fit any farther toward the rear. It was already pressing hard against the louvers before i removed them…so really no play there. Also, i was not happy that Demco didn’t bother to provide any kind of usable bracket for use with a breakaway, a wiring harness plug, or anything like even their own Air Force one. I had to fab brackets for AF1 and breakaway. I mounted the lighting bracket on the facia with a handmade backing plate to add rigidity. I love the way the install video just causally skips over installing any of those required components. Well, once the bar is in place, and the facia forced back on. It looks fine except the ugly low placement of the lighting plug (which I hope never finda a parking block) and the lower grill looks distorted because of the press fit (if you notice it anyway). Guess we’ll see how it looks after a month or so of towing. For comparison, I did the install of a baseplate (my first install oaf a base plate ever) on my Wrangler in 5 hours all in with wiring included, but not including the AF1 components. This one took me about 12 hours mostly because of the too tight fit which mandated removing and reinstalling the baseplate a few times to see what needed trimmed, needing removal of the louvers (I really didn’t want to do that…but in the end no other solution would have worked because if i shimmed the plate out to clear the louvers, I would have had to cut out most of the lower grill to accommodate that), and then having to trim the grill pieces to get it to o back together. This was not a hard install, just a lot of trial and fails…at least in the end it fit together. Maybe I was working slowly…but it really did not just fit right out of the box even knowing about the air dam trimming needed.
Great product and very simple to install, took approximately 2-3 hours. No cutting and perfect fit
Found it at a better price Wish I would have seen it earlier it would have saved me 130.00
Just as advertised and it came two days early. All parts included as well as instructions with color pictures. Anxious to get it installed on my 2023 Maverick.
I’m still waiting for my truck to arriv e.
Purchased this for my 2024 Buick Encore GX. I use a Demco Commander tow bar. Waited several weeks to receive it as eTrailer was out of stock. Was well packaged. Appears well made. Read instructions, they were vague in some spots and more photos would have been helpful. I had it installed by my trusted local mechanic. He advised that some of the photos in the instructions were off of an entirely different vehicle. The two side plates did not fit well and needed to be pursued to bolt up. Haven’t hooked it all up yet, we’ll see.
Base plate fits good,does require some trimming like it says in the instructions. Mine was missing 2 required clips. I emailed about the problem and got a call back to confirm which clips were needed and they were shipped out free of any charges. This was some of the best customer service I’ve had. Definitely will use e trailer again, thank you!
Instructions are excellent. And thank you for the rapid delivery.
Good price for exactly what I needed. Delivered in less than 2 days… no hassles! Great service!
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