etrailer | How to Install: Draw-Tite Sportframe Trailer Hitch Receiver on your 2020 Chevrolet Spark

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Hey, guys, it's Jake here with etrailer. Today, we have a 2020 Chevrolet Spark and we're gonna be taking a look at and I'm gonna show you how to install the Draw-Tite Class 1, 1 - 1/4 Hitch Receiver. Adding a hitch receiver to the back of your Spark is gonna allow you to do a couple different things. You can use it for bike racks, cargo carriers because there's not a whole lot of space on the inside of the Spark. You can also use it to pull small trailers. If you pair it with a four pole wiring kit, you can get the wiring back here in order to safely pull those.

You just will want to check with the owner's manual of your vehicle to see what your Spark is designed to pull. Speaking of those capacities that the vehicle can handle, the hitch is designed to handle 200 pounds max towing weight and 2,000 pounds gross towing weight. That is the trailer plus the load included. Again, check with your owner's manual of your vehicle, see what the Spark is rated to pull and to handle on the back end of the Spark and compare that to the amounts of the hitch and go with the lowest amount between the hitch and the vehicle. Your inch-and-quarter by inch-and-a-quarter hitch receiver tube opening is gonna give you that access for those inch-and-a-quarter by inch-and-a-quarter accessories.

Now, if you have any two-inch accessories at home, you can pick up a hitch extender, which will adapt it from the inch-and-a-quarter to two-inch, but you will want to check to see what percentage that's gonna take away from your weight capacity. If you're just hauling a bike rack, that's maybe only 75 to 100 pounds worth of weight, you should be okay with that, but you just want to check to see how much that extension's gonna reduce your weight capacity. We're gonna have a half-inch hitch pin hole that is going to help to hold those accessories in place. Our hitch does not come with one, but we've got plenty locking in on our website. Our safety chain loops are going to be a hoop style more than large enough to fit your clevis style or your S-hook style to be able to get those safety chains hooked up to safely pull trailers.

Some measurements, so you know how it's gonna fit on your car. From the center of our hitch main hole, the outermost part of our bumper is about two-and-a-half-inches. You'll use that measurement for any accessories that hold up to the vehicle or just strictly you want them to fit on the vehicle. You watch some of our test fits on our website, you can see accessories fitting in the back of our hitch here and they will tell you a measurement from the closest part of the accessory to the hitch pin hole on the accessory. Compare that to that two-and-a-half-inches and you'll know whether or not that accessory's gonna fit on the back of your Spark.

From the ground to the top inside of the receiver tube, it's about 10 and three-quarters of an inch. That is low enough to the ground to where I'd highly recommend a raised shank in your accessory. A lot of inch-and-a-quarter accessories already have that because they're typically installed on vehicles that the hitch is lower to the ground. Just keep in mind, if you plan on using a hitch extender, if you get that two-inch hitch receiver, what'll happen is your new hitch receiver's gonna be about out here, so it's going to extend your load. So if your vehicle starts sagging, that load is gonna be even closer to the ground yet, so just keep an eye out for it and make sure you get those accessories that work with your vehicle. Now, as far as the insulation goes for this hitch, it is going to mount up behind the rear fascia. You're gonna have to take your bumper beam off, which is basically just a crash bumper that's behind this plastic one. But to take the rear fascia off of this vehicle is not very difficult. There's no wiring in it. There's just some fasteners and screws on the insides of our wheel well and then a few on the bottom that we'll have to take off. But hopefully, with my help, you'll be able to get your hitch installed. But with that being said, let's go ahead and show you how to do it. To begin our installation, we're going to take a seven-millimeter socket and we're gonna have several screws in our wheel well that we'll have to remove. The first one will be a screw that is going down into these two panels. It's connecting this