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etrailer | Installation: Curt Trailer Hitch Receiver on a 2024 Subaru Forester

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/2024... https://www.etrailer.com Don’t forget to subscribe!    / etrailertv   Full transcript: https://www.etrailer.com/tv-install-c... Hey guys, it's Jake here with etrailer. Today we have a 2024 Subaru Forester. Today we're gonna be looking at and showing you how to install the CURT class 3 two-inch hitch receiver. Adding a trailer hitch to the back of your Forester's gonna allow you to haul bike racks, cargo carriers, many other accessories. And if you want to pull a small trailer, when you pair this hitch with four pole or seven pole wiring, that is going to allow you to safely pull those trailers down the road. Your two-inch by two-inch hitch receiver tube opening is gonna give you a lot of different options for accessories out there on the market. We have a 5/8-inch hitch pin hole here. This is gonna accept your standard hitch pin and clip. You want to be sure to pick one up 'cause the hitch does not come with one. We've got locking and non locking hitch pins on our website. Your safety chain loops are going to be a plate style, which will fit safety chains of many different sizes and styles. I will say if you have a smaller S hook style, if you're pulling a trailer, I would hook it on from the backside and then it can hang down like this. Because what can happen, if you put it around like this, they tend to bind and they don't want to really get placed properly. But you can hook it like this and tow it like that. You just wanna make sure that they are adjusted correctly. Now some measurements so you know how this is gonna fit on your Forester. From the center of our hitch pin hole to the outermost part of our bumper is about 3 1/2 inches. You want to use that measurement when comparing it to accessories that you wanna fold up to the back of your vehicle or just slide into your hitch. You wanna compare that 3 1/2 inches to the measurement from the center of the hitch pin hole in the accessory to the closest part of the accessory. That will tell you whether or not those accessories are gonna fit on your Forester with this hitch. From the ground to the top inside of the receiver tube is 14 1/2 inches. We do have the wilderness package here so it may be a little bit taller than your standard Foresters, but that is gonna give you a good idea of what kind of rise or drop in a shank that you might need for those accessories. Now when it comes to the weight capacities of this hitch, you're gonna have a max tongue weight capacity of 525 pounds and a max gross trailer weight capacity of 3,500 pounds. That is the trailer plus the load that you have mounted on top of it. You will want to check with your vehicle's owner's manual to see what your Forester is capable of handling when it comes to tongue weight and the max trailer weight. Compare that to the hitch and go with the lowest number between the Forester and the hitch. Now if you're planning on using your Forester with weight distribution, if you're pulling a small camper or a trailer that you're trying to control the sway on, this particular hitch is not rated to use weight distribution with it. But the Draw-Tite two-inch hitch receiver is rated for weight distribution. So you can check that out on our website. As far as the installation goes for this hitch, it is very, very simple. It installs like a lot of the other hitches available for the Forester. You simply have to remove a panel off the driver's side. You have to drop that down, lower your exhaust, take your your exhaust shield down, trim it a little bit, lift your hitch up into place. And then you have to just get all your hardware secured down, torqued down, put the panels back up. It's definitely a job you could do from home in your garage. There's more than enough space to lay under there and get this job done. But with that being said, let's go ahead and show you how to do it. To begin our installation, we're gonna need to take down this plastic panel because it's covering up part of our frame rail that we need to get to. We'll take a flathead screwdriver and pop out these push pin fasteners. If you just pop out the center, then the base should shortly follow And we're gonna have two more push pin fasteners in our wheel well that are holding our liner to our plastic guard here. So we'll get up there and take those two out also. All you want to take a 10 millimeter socket or a Phillips head screwdriver and remove these two fasteners. We're gonna take our panel, start pulling it down. It lo