etrailer Trailer Hitch Receiver - Custom Fit - Matte Black Finish - Class III - 2"

Video Transcript for etrailer Class III Trailer Hitch Installation - 2017 Buick Envision

Hi there Buick owners, today in your 2017 Buick Envision, we're gonna be taking a look at, and showing you how to install Etrailers, class three, two inch trailer hitch receiver. And this is what our hitch looks like when it's installed. It is gonna be hidden completely behind the rear fascia. And you'll have an access cover here at the back that you can pull the panel off to reveal the hitch when you're ready to use it. We've just got the panel sitting here in the back of the vehicle. That way you can just store it in the rear compartment there.

So, when you're done towing, you can slap that cover back on and achieve a factory look, once again. So it's really cool that this hitch can be completely hidden. It does have a two inch by two inch receiver and it's a class three hitch. So it's gonna be great for all of your towing needs whether you're wanting to use this for accessories such as bike rack or cargo carriers or if you're wanting to get some work done throw a draw bar or ball mount in it, hook up a trailer and get some work done that way. You'll secure your accessories to your hitch with a five eights, hitch spinning clip.

Now one doesn't come included with the hitch, we've got plenty available here at Etrailer and I'd recommend locking ones to protect your investments. On bottom, we have hoop style safety chain loops with a very large opening that should accommodate just about every shape, size, and style of safety chain. You can see, we have no issue with our bigger one and our smaller chains here work very nice as well. So now I've got some measurements for you to help you when deciding on your accessories. From the center of our hitch pin hole to the edge of our rear bumper, we're right at about five inches.

That's important when determining if your accessories will contact the bumper when inserted into the hitch, and if they can be placed in the upright storage position without contacting the bumper. And from the ground to the top inside edge of our receiver tube, we're looking at right at about 15 and three quarters of an inch. And that's important if you need a drop, rise or raised shank on your accessories. And I will say with this hit here installed it is very close to the fascia. You should still be able to slide your accessories in, just be careful when going to slide them in cause it is so close that you do have the potential of scraping the bottom of your fascia right there.

Now that we've talked about some of the features of our hitch, why don't you follow along with us and we'll show you how to get it installed. We'll begin our installation here, underneath the rear of the vehicle. There are five bolts that we're gonna remove out of the bottom using a T-15 Torx. We're gonna start with the two in the center though, cause this cover here is removable, and we're gonna take that off. So zip bolt of those out of there, and then our paneling should just snap out of there. Sometimes you do need to check the tabs on the backside and release those, but in most cases it just kind of pulls down, just like that. So we'll just set this off to the side and then we'll get the rest of those bolts removed. And really the two that we have just on each side here we really don't necessarily need to remove those. We just need to get it to where it's released from the brackets here. So we can pull it back and flex that outta the way and get our hitch up. So now we're gonna remove the lowest nut on the stud here for our bumper beam right there at the bottom. We're gonna use a fifteen millimeter socket to do so. And we got those bolts removed from our shielding here. So if you need to peel that back out of the way just a little bit to get your tool up in there, go right ahead. After we zip it off this side, we're gonna head over to the other side and remove the same nut in the location located over here. Now we'll feed our bolts into position. This is the hole that we want our bolt to come out of right here and the larger one just a little bit further towards the front of the vehicle, is gonna be the hole we'll use as our access hole to get our hardware in. So take your fish wire. I put a little bit of a bend in it there, that'll just make it a little bit easier for us to go right in this hole and then come right back out the one next to it. And then on the opposite side, I also like to put a bend on here, and this just helps prevent my whole wire from pulling all the way through by accident. So now we're gonna take the end of that coiled wire here and slide on your spacer and thread on your carriage bolt. We can then take the spacer. We're gonna slide that up into the frame and then take our carriage bolt, follow that up right behind it. And that'll drop down just like that. On the other side of the vehicle, you're gonna have these same holes in the bottom of the frame. So we're gonna feed our carriage bolt in the same location over there on the passenger side. All right, so now with an extra set of hands, we're gonna feed our hitch into position. First, we need to get our fish wires fed through our pitch here and then we can get that up above the exhaust there. Now when we put our cross beam in here, we're gonna have to peel back on the face shell a little bit and work it around the bracket. There we go. And once you've got it around the bracket there, we just need to set it on top of the bolt that we had removed the nut from. And then if you just set it on top of there, just get your nut started by a turn or two and that'll hold our hitch up there, and make it easier to install the rest of our hardware. Now go back to the bolts that we had passed down, using our fish wire. Go ahead and take your fish wire off of there. Grab one of the flange nuts that come in your kit and thread it on the bolt. You do wanna be careful not to push the bolt up inside the frame, when you're doing this. So just be careful cause it can be easy. A lot of times I try to put side pressure and stuff on it if I can, but with this particular hitch, after you slide it on those bolts for the rear, you don't really have a lot of adjustment to be able to move this. So just very gently twist your nut onto your bolt. Here we go. And we'll do the same thing over on the other side. We can now go back and tighten our hardware down. So we're gonna go ahead and use a 19 millimeter for our nuts that we fed up for the carriage bolt and looks like where our exhaust is right here. We're probably gonna want to use a swivel on the end to be able to access that. And we'll snug down the other side. And we can grab our 15 millimeter once again that we had used to remove that bolt, or the nut here and go ahead and snug that back down. And now we'll torque our bolts to the specifications outlined in our instructions. And then we can reinstall the bolts that we had removed for our rear panel here. And you can either reinstall this panel or leave it removed, that's up to you. I would usually say if you're planning on using your hitch, leave it off. But if you don't plan on using your hitch very often, I would just go ahead and reinstall it and then you can always pull it down whenever you need it. That way your vehicle looks factory. So we're gonna go ahead and leave it off for now but you can see here that it would fully reinstall. We have no issues with clearance, that'll pop up in there And our hardware would line right back up. And that completes our installation of Etrailer's class three, two inch trailer hitch receiver, on our 2017 Buick Envision..