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The crossbar-style hidden brackets attach to your vehicle's frame to provide attachment points for your tow bar. The visible portions of the brackets can be removed when you are not towing.
Features:
Note: Fishwires (C58400 - sold separately) are required for complete installation.
The square drawbars, or front arms, on the crossbar-style base plate kit are simple to mount and remove, easily securing with hitch pins. Once the drawbars have been removed, the remaining brackets are virtually invisible. On most automobiles, the brackets are mounted within the grille, where they remain not only unseen, but protected from scrapes and scuffs as well.
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (973 Customer Reviews)
The crossbar-style hidden brackets attach to your vehicle's frame to provide attachment points for your tow bar. The visible portions of the brackets can be removed when you are not towing.Great product, shipping was FAST. Instructions were adequate, but minimum - this was not surprising, you have to know how to bend wrenches to install something like this yourself.
I had a factory-installed tow hook on each side that had to be uninstalled, but once you remove the front bumper shroud it is easy to remove and all the bolts are easy to remove. Once the hook was out of the way, easy-peasy!
High quality materials
Precise fit in a very tight space
6-8 hour install
No jacking or vehicle raising required.
Fast delivery
Good price
2002 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited
This Roadmaster Base plate is absolutly the strongest for safe towing. 1/4" base plate. Everything is heavy duty. Everything FITS perfectly and hole LINE UP!! One TIP - the 4-10mm x 1.5 x 45mm bolts would not fit my 2002 Gran Cherokee. INSTEAD get 8.8 hardness 3/8 x 16 thread (NC) x 1 1/2 inches long. This is the thread thats in the 2002 Grand Cherokee frame. Everything else is good to go. I would recommend this product and am VERY HAPPY. Installed about 1 hr. No hurry I'm 70. Will pull behind my truck camper with confidence 8^). Best price AND service from etrailer as always. Oh and get the fish wire bolt leader.
Your sales representative was great his name is Brent J I have opened up the box and the parts look to be in really good condition and complete. I have yet to install the parts I will be doing that today. I’ll be more than happy to fill out the form to let you know how it pulls and how easy the connections were. Thank you for yawls prompt service. I never expected it to get to me so quickly and that’s a great thing. I will be ordering more parts from Brent he has a sent me a list Of options that will fit on my Winnebago for suspension and air ride.
item attached as directed. The only thing I would change is that
they provide the wire tool to help put the top two bolts in around
the top attachment. I looked on youtube and etrailer had a very nice video how to install with the part number for the wire threader.
Found fit for passenger side bracket was a little tight in fitting against radiator, this could be due to being a v8 Jeep Grand Cherokee.
All ended well just a little aggravating that the bracket was so close on fitment.
I would buy again should the need arise
We requested it be delivered ASAP and it arrived at just the right time. Product works perfect. It was easy to installand took about 1 hour without any experience with this kind to attachment. Directions to attached to vehicle were correct and easy to follow. Had to figure out the reciever attachment for my self. Not that hard to figure out. Would recommend product.
Fast delivery and good customer service! I ordered online and made an error that ended up as a double order. I called and the problem was immediately fixed and there were no issues with the products or my payment. I received it within 2 day! Amazing! Right product, right fit for my Jeep and clear instructions to install.
Quick communication, fast shipping and delivery! Very impressed with speed. This was my second purchase from etrailer and both have been the same, excellent! Thank you!
Nice unit. Fairly easy to install. Had no problems last trip, loading up for another in two weeks.
Fit my Jeep perfectly taking the front fascia off was the biggest pain .
Worked exact ally as described. Bolted right up, quick and easy. And super fast shipping.
Great product and great service.
etrailer service is and has always been stellar. My order was correct and was delivered very quickly. The only reason I made this a four instead of a five was that the rear bolt position of both base plate brackets where welded on crooked. Each small plate was at a different angle from each other. In my opinion whoever welded them wasn’t paying attention to quality control. Because I was on a time crunch for my departure on a trip and could not wait for replacements (and I needed the vehicle for local driving) I made the brackets work. Other than that the installation went smoothly and I was able to test tow my 2004 CRV a couple of times without incident.
Very impressed that they're the exact fabbed fit, and easy to install! These tow base plates are super sturdy!
Item arrived earlier than predicted after viewing a very complete tracking system. The information was very clear and precise. Good job! I am 75 years of age and installed the baseplate myself. Only a couple of minor issues. One pin would not insert. Welding blob in the way. Filed it smooth and problem solved. The video was excellent but was a bit different in that it showed a different method o rear bolt installation, however the instructions on paper showed the correct way. Reinstalling the front clip had presented some difficulty. I suggest really watching the inner fender position relative to the front clip before removal. All said all went well. The finished look is great, (see pictures). Great product!
Just completed a 6600 mile rod trip, towing the Subaru behind a motor home.
Worked great.
I've towed with it many times and Zero problems. I did find that moving the car slightly forward after stopping helps relax tension amd.make.disconnect much easier. Overall... I'd say SUPER..!!
Base plate 1910 install on 1999 Landrover disco 2
the base plate arrived fast (as does everything I have ordered from etrailer). It was a bit bent on arrival but Becky sorted me out and offered to replace it but it was easy to bend back (with a 3lb hammer).
The included instructions were great for removing the bumper but nor much else. Possibly because my Landy is a 1999 disco 2 and the pictures were of a 2002.
I have included some pictures of stuff I wish I had known. Firstly I had to loose the recovery loop on the driver side as the base plate would not fit over it. The chassis frame has steel tubes inside the bolt holes so the amount of drilling is minimal (I ordered a drill bit that they suggested but in all honesty could have opened up the holes with a file easily).
You need to oval out the aluminum crush cans before you replce them or the new bolts will not go through. The center mount bolt just needs the plastic mount for the center screw on the scoop cut out and there is a bog square hole on the top of the member (thats why you need to big square piece of steel on the top of the center bolt)
Mine was obscured by the torsion bar so I ended up dropping it to drill out the hole and get the bolt in straight.
It was easy to bolt up to the frame once everything was prepped and do yourself a favour and buy loctite red for the bolts - you don't want to be going in there again.
The bumper template was a good start but I had to reshape mine a lot particularly as the hole on the baseplate ended up halfway through the bumper and I had to do a lot of enlargement at the bottom to attach the safety wires.
The photos should make more sense of some of my description
It was easy to install, fit well and came with good instructions.
Everything looks good for us, but we have one more part that we are waiting on before we can install on the truck plus it's raining out here in Washington State. when it's time to put it all together we will take a picture and send it.
The baseplate and crossbar arrived one day earlier than expected. Directions were included which made the installation pretty easy.
I am happy with etrailers products and will buy from them again.
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Stephen
12/7/2020
Works fantastic! Install was relatively easy, I made adapter plates for my Husky tow bar. Nice!