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etrailer | 2020 Subaru Forester Curt Trailer Hitch Receiver: Complete Installation

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 Subaru Forester parts and accessories: https://www.etrailer.com/vehicle/2020... https://www.etrailer.com Don’t forget to subscribe!    / etrailertv   Full transcript: https://www.etrailer.com/tv-install-c... Ryan: Hey, everybody, Ryan here at etrailer. today on our 2020 Subaru Forester, we're going to be taking a look at and showing you how to install the CURT class two trailer hitch receiver. In my opinion, this hitch is going to be a great choice for you if you plan on only using inch and a quarter accessories, or especially if you already have them. And since it is more of a low profile design, it is going to be less visible and in my opinion look pretty good on the back of the Subaru.So this is going to be a class two hitch so it's going to have that inch and a quarter by inch and a quarter receiver tube opening, and a reinforced collar for some extra strength. It's going to have the standard half inch size pinhole. Now pin and clip does not come included, but if you need one, you can find it here at etrailer. The safety chain openings are going to be a plate style, and they're actually pretty big so you shouldn't have any problems using just about any size hook that you might have. And since they do set back pretty far, you're not going to have to worry about any interference with your pin and clips.For being an inch and a quarter hitch. It's actually going to give us some pretty good weight ratings. As far as the maximum gross tongue weight rating goes, it's going to be 350 pounds. So that's going to be the amount of weight pushing down on the hitch. So that's perfect for those one to three bike racks. As far as the maximum gross trailer weight rating goes, it's going to be 3,500 pounds. So that's going to be the amount of weight pulling on the hitch. So that's the weight of your trailer plus anything that you might have on it. Now I do always like to recommend to check with your Subaru's owner's manual to make sure your car can pull on much weight.Now, I'm going to give you a couple of measurements and you're going to use these to help figure out which hitch mounted accessories to get. From the ground to the top inside edge of the receiver tube opening, it's going to be about 15 inches, and you're going to use that to help figure out whether you need to get a ball mount with either a drop or rise. From the center of the hitch pin hole, to the edge of our rear bumper, that's going to be about five inches, and you're going to use that to help figure out if any folding accessories that you might have can be stored in the upright position without contacting the bumper.So overall, pretty good looking hitch. That's going to allow you to throw some accessories on the back of your Subaru that way you can enjoy your Forester. Now as far as the installation goes, it is a little bit involved, but it's pretty straightforward and shouldn't take you all that much time to do. Speaking of which, let's go ahead and put it on together now.To begin our install, we're going to be working underneath the back of our Subaru. We're first going to need to lower our exhaust to give us some more room to work. But what I like to do since there won't be nothing supporting it is to take a strap, just kind of run it from side to side and that'll just kind of help hold it up a little bit.So we're going to have a total of three rubber exhaust hangers that we need to take off. We're going to have two here on our muffler. One will be on this side. To get these off, you spray them down with some soapy water or some penetrating oil, makes it a lot easier. Then we can just grab a pry bar or even a big screwdriver and work that hanger off. The other one is just going to be on this side of the muffler. Use that same technique to get it removed. And then the last one is just going to be just in front of our rear axle.With the muffler dropped down a little bit, we can now gain access to our heat shield so we're to take that off. We're going to have four bolts pulling just like these. We'll use a 10 millimeter socket to take those out. Let me just sneak our heat shield out for now. Now, if we move over to our driver's side, we're going to have this underbody panel that we need to take off. However, I found with these, there's going to be a couple of fasteners on this side of it just behind our rear wheel and those are easier to take off first. So here are the two fasteners that we need to take out. It's just a push pin fastener so you can use a flat-headed screwdriver, pry underneath the head of it and kind of twist it.And the head of it will relea