etrailer | Installation: Draw-Tite Trailer Hitch Receiver on a 2018 Ford EcoSport

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Hey everybody. Rob here at etrailer.com. And today we're going to be taking a look at the Draw-Tite class two custom-fit trailer hitch receiver on our 2018 Ford EcoSport. Now here's what our hitch is going to look like once we have it installed, it is going to be hidden pretty well behind the bumper here. And all we're really going to see is that receiver tube sticking out. So it has a really clean, almost OEM look to it.

Now it is going to be a class two hitch, which means it's going to give us that inch and a quarter by inch and a quarter receiver tube opening. Really great for some of those bike racks, some of the smaller cargo carriers, but regardless of how we're going to be using our hitch, all of our accessories are going to mount to the hitch pin hole here on the side.Now the hitch is going to accept a standard half inch pin and clip. Now these are not going to come with the hitch, but you can pick them up here at etrailer.com, along with some locking devices to make sure your accessories are secure. And anti-rattle devices to cut down on that annoying rattle and shaking sound when driving down the highway. And obviously if you're towing a trailer, you got to have a spot to hook up your safety chains.

And here we have a loop style welded to the bottom of the receiver tube. And even with some of the most common size hooks, you'll see we've got plenty of room to get them hooked on or take them off. Or if we have some of the really large oversized hooks, you still have plenty of room to get those hooked on and take them off without any kind of interference.Now, as far as the weight capacity goes, our hitch is going to have a 350 pound tongue weight. That's the maximum downward force at the end of the receiver tube. So to put that in perspective, that's going to give us a good way that we can carry quite a few bikes with us.

Be able to put a bike rack in there, maybe carry two, three bikes with us, or if we need to make room inside of our eco sport, maybe we're on a road trip. We can get a cargo carrier out here and really maximize the carrying capacity of some of those smaller ones. Now, our hitch is also going to have a 3,500 pound gross trailer weight rating. That's how much the hitch can pull, but that does include the trailer and everything we have loaded on it. But with all those numbers in mind, you should double check your Ford's owner's manual.Cause those are a rating for our hitch and we don't want to exceed the rating for our eco sport.

I'd like to give you a few measurements and these are going to help you out whenever you're looking for accessories for your new hitch, from the center of the hitch pin hole to the outermost edge of the bumper through right about three-and-a-half inches. Now that measurement is going to help you when you're looking at folding accessories, to make sure you can put them in the upright store position, and they're not going to come in contact with the rear bumper. From the ground to the inside top edge of the receiver tube opening is going to be right about 12 inches. Now at that height, I would definitely recommend a bike rack or cargo carrier with a raised shank. That way we can get a little bit more ground clearance out of it.But now that we've seen our hitch looks like and gone over some of the features, let's walk through the installation together. To begin our installation, we're going to come to the very back of our eco sport now, and our particular application, we don't have this trim panel here, but if you look at the very bottom, you can see several holes that are spanning across the bottom of the facia here. Normally there would be a panel right here. Yours may or may not have it in there, but if you do, you need to pull all these screws out are going to be a five and a half millimeter. And then if you come inside just underneath the trunk pane itself, we're going to have two studs. One of them is going to have the heat shield attached to it with a plastic nut. The other side, there's nothing on it because the panel's not there, but these two nuts would also hold that panel in.So you remove those and pull that entire panel out. So now if we move in just a little bit towards the front and towards the passenger side. We'll find our muffler the very back now on the outside of that, we'll find our rubber isolator and hanger holding everything in place, I'm going to grab some spray lubricant to spray down the