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etrailer | DIY 2019 Chevrolet Cruze Installation for the Curt Trailer Hitch Receiver

Click for more info and reviews of this CURT Trailer Hitch: https://www.etrailer.com/Trailer-Hitc... Check out some similar Trailer Hitch options: https://www.etrailer.com/fitguide.htm Search for other popular Chevrolet Cruze parts and accessories: https://www.etrailer.com/vehicle/2019... https://www.etrailer.com Don’t forget to subscribe!    / etrailertv   Full transcript: https://www.etrailer.com/tv-install-c... Hello neighbors, it's Brad here at "etrailer" and today we're taking a look at installing the Curt class one trailer hitch receiver on a 2019 Chevy Cruze. Now being a class one trailer hitch basically means that you're gonna have an inch and a quarter receiver tube opening and you do kind of limit yourself a little bit with bike racks, ball mounts and cargo carriers. There's definitely still options out there, but on smaller vehicles sometimes you're limited with a inch and a quarter and my car is the same way. And don't worry, there's still plenty of accessories that you can pick up. Now when you do have your accessories in place you're gonna be using a half inch pin and clip to keep them in place. Now the hitch doesn't come with one. A lot of times when you pick up accessories they'll have one included, but if you wanna pick up a locking one, they're really nice because you can put your accessories in place, lock it in there, and you can leave it on the vehicle and not have to worry about anything walking away in the hands of someone else. Now just because it is a class one doesn't mean you can't pull some small trailers and when you do that you do have a plate style safety chain loop here. So your standard S hooks are gonna go on there just fine. And also larger clevis style, they're gonna work no problem. Now if you do plan on towing a trailer you do have to adhere to the weight limits of the hitch which are fairly standard for your class one. Your gross trailer weight rating is gonna be 2000 pounds which is the weight of the trailer plus the accessories loaded up. And you also have a tongue weight rating of 200 pounds. So that's gonna be the downward pressure that's put on the inside of the receiver tube opening. So if you have a bike rack you're gonna wanna make sure that you weigh the rack as well as those bikes and not go over that 200 pounds. Now you also want to check the vehicle's owner's manual. Just see what it's capable of as well and compare it with the numbers of the hitch and take the lower of those two numbers. When choosing accessories, you wanna see if they're gonna clear your fascia without causing any damage. Some of 'em do fold up and you're gonna wanna make sure that it clears. And so measuring from the center of the hitch pin to the furthest point of the rear fascia, we're coming in at about four and a half inches. And also we're gonna check the ground clearance. So if you plan on picking up a ball mount you can decide if you need a rise or a drop. And this one here comes in at 11 and a half inches. Now something else to keep in mind is when you have suspended accessories like a cargo carrier bike rack, they are gonna be off the back of the vehicle. So as you go up an incline, just keep that in mind. You don't want those dragging on the ground. Now as far as the installation of the hitch, it's not too bad. You are gonna lower down the muffler of the vehicle and you're gonna be trimming a heat shield as well as a plastic underbody panel. But other than that we're just gonna fish wire some hardware up and bolt it in. So let's take a look at those steps so you can get your hitch installed. The first step of our installation is going to be lowering down the exhaust. If you're doing this in your garage or in your driveway you can just put a block of wood or something like that just to support it. That way it's not just hanging down causing any stress on the exhaust further upstream. So I'm using a cam-buckle strap here. I'm just gonna kind of loop this across to create a cradle. Next we're gonna go to our isolators here and we'll see that they're attached with. We have a whole bracket here that's got 13 millimeter nuts. We're gonna go ahead and get those removed. (metal clanking) (drill drilling) Now once you get those bolts out, if you can you're gonna want to kind of push this back because you have clips here that kind of press against to kind of bite in once they're on the studs. So you wanna kind of get as much away from this portion here where the bumper beam is, and that way you can get your isolator taken down. So now we're gonna go ahead and remove our heat shield. And the way to get these speed nuts off, if you can get a pair of needle nose kind of in two of the slots you can kind of just twist it and get it started. They come off pretty easy after that. Now there's gonna be a few of these. It look