Curt Custom Fifth Wheel Installation Kit for Chevy/GMC - Carbide Finish
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Curt Custom Fifth Wheel Installation Kit for Chevy/GMC - Carbide Finish
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2008 Chevrolet Silverado - Curt Custom Fifth Wheel Installation Kit for Chevy/GMC - Carbide Finish
- Above the Bed
- CURT
- Custom
Install your fifth-wheel trailer hitch in half the time with this -specific bracket kit. Requires no drilling and provides a custom fit for your . Includes everything you need for installation.
Features:
- Custom brackets mount beneath your truck bed to provide attachment points for 5th-wheel rails
- Base rails sit in truck bed and allow installation of 5th-wheel trailer hitch
- Custom fit - brackets mount to existing holes in your vehicle's frame
- No drilling is required
- Installation time is cut in half when compared with universal bracket systems
- Kit includes brackets, rails and hardware
- Visible rails have carbide finish
- Compatible with B&W, Curt, Draw-Tite, Hidden Hitch, Husky, Reese, and Valley above-bed 5th-wheel trailer hitches
- Assembled in the USA
16400 Curt Custom Fifth Wheel Bracket Kit
16204 Curt Fifth Wheel Base Rails - Carbide Finish
Replaces 16414-204
Installation Details
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Video Transcript for Review of CURT Fifth Wheel Installation Kit - Custom Fit - C16400-204
Hello, everybody. this is Jeff at etrailer.com. Today we're gonna take a look at the CURT Custom Fit Fifth Wheel Installation Kit with the Carbide Black Base Rails for Chevrolet and GMC trucks. Now, this is a custom fit part. It is designed to fit the 2007 to 2019 Chevrolet Silverado, and GMC Sierra 1500 trucks with either the six and a half foot bed or the eight foot bed. Now, on a custom fit part like this, I always like to recommend for you to go to our website, use the fit guide, put in your year and model of vehicle, and it'll show if this will work for application.
Now, this kit is a complete installation kit. It allows you install a fifth wheel to your truck bed. And the kit will include everything shown here on the table. It includes these custom fit side mounting brackets here. The base rails comes with all the hardware you need for installation.
Even comes with some detailed instructions that'll describe how it all goes together, and they even include a brake line bracket. Now, the custom fit brackets, I wanna zoom in on those on the side here. These are a custom fit bracket, which are designed to mount beneath your truck bed. They provide these attachment points for the fifth wheel rails to attach to. They have a nice black powder coat finish to them to resist corrosion.
And what's nice about these brackets is they'll provide a custom fit by mounting to the existing holes in your vehicle's frame. You can see the holes drilled in these brackets. They'll line up with the holes on your frame, so it'll minimize the amount of drilling that's required. And in that case, it'll cut the installation time in half when compared with the universal bracket kits that are sold out there. Now, the base rails right here, these are what'll sit in your truck bed.
They allow the installation of your fifth wheel trailer hitch to them, and these rails will be visible in your truck bed. These rails here have a carbide black finish to them to match the color of your fifth wheel hitch. And these rails are industry standard rails, which means they're compatible with the BMW, the CURT, the Draw-Tite, the Reese, and even the Husky above bed fifth wheel trailer hitches. But that's gonna do it for the review on the CURT Custom Fit Fifth Wheel Installation Kit with the Carbide Black Base Rails for the Chevrolet and GMC trucks.
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Curt Custom Fifth Wheel Installation Kit for Chevy/GMC - Carbide Finish - C16400-204
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (17 Customer Reviews)
Install your fifth-wheel trailer hitch in half the time with this vehicle-specific bracket kit. Requires no drilling and provides a custom fit for your vehicle. Includes everything you need for installation.by: Rick02/24/2021
2018 Chevrolet Silverado 1500
Poorly designed kit.
I've installed several rail kits over the years in other trucks and this is the worst one I've had to deal with. I watched their inline video and tried to follow their instructions. It is supposed to take between 1 and 2 hr. to install, try 5 with 2 people. The worst thing is the way it is attached to the the frame rails. They use U bolts around the frame and a 1/2" bolt in a current 1" oval hole. The only thing bearing the load of the hitch shifting from front to back is the holes drilled in the thin sheet metal of the box. Spot welding it to the frame or drilling an other hole is the only way I see to guaranty it doesn't shift. I should have bought the competitors universal kit.
by: William 09/23/2020
Solid and well built. Installation instructions could have been a little better. I would purchase this again.
by: Gary N06/30/2017
2015 GMC Sierra 1500
Good product but not a very easy install, I have a car hoist, which makes it easier, you need to take off both wheels . If you have arthritis for get it, send to a shop with flexible kids to install. No room to get torque wrench on rail bolts, tighten as best as you can and check them periodically, factory exhaust hanger welded on frame right were Ubolt should go but will work if installed to the rear of it.make sure to note that cab side rails use outside bolt holes and tailgate side rail uses second ones in from both sides.
by: Jeremy W06/19/2020
Install was probably double the time it say, and that was with a lift and all legit snap on mechanics tools, instructions are kinda vague is some places and you have to use your best judgment but a good product regardless,
by: Bruce04/21/2021
Carriage bolts sent with kit did not work for me can only get open end wrench by frame had to get bolts so that the bolt can be tightened from up above. And only had to drill hole in frame for break hanger
by: Harry 07/24/2021
It fit the way it was supposed to fit and performs how it was intended. Great design! It could have have a few more instructions but we figured it out. Took two of us 3 hours to install.
by: Philip07/10/2018
2016 Chevrolet Silverado 1500
I like the rails and it was worth the money to get ones that the holes match up to my truck and I didn't have to make new holes. Thank you etrailer.
by: Josh03/22/2021
Easy install, finish on the rails is rugged and hasn't scraped or chipped in my pickup bed.
Josh
3/23/2022
After a year, the rails still look like new and the brackets against the frame still look new with the original coating. The bolts under the truck have some surface rust but I live in MN so that is expected. The bolts in the bed still have their zinc coating.
by: Edwin08/15/2019
Always look first at e trailer. Com
And you will always find everything you need
by: Julie 07/26/2020
not the best instructions
by: Frank03/05/2021
Thank you for great service,product is great works great,thank you.
by: Doug Frost09/10/2015
Products were priced well and came in very quickly. The packaging was done poorly and two boxes were damaged. The contents seem to be ok.
by: Steven05/18/2018
2018 GMC Sierra 1500
Prompt delivery, items as described.
Always a great experiance from them.
by: Derek 05/19/2023
by: Larry 08/21/2021
2018 GMC Sierra 1500
Really fast scv well built products
by: Adam12/14/2019
Great company and very helpful.
by: Jarred09/13/2023
2015 Chevrolet Silverado 1500
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William S.
9/24/2021
One year out and its solid as a rock.