Curt Trailer Hitch Receiver with Standard Drawbar - Custom Fit - Class I - 1-1/4"

Video Transcript for Trailer Hitch Installation - 2010 Honda Accord - Curt

Today on our 2010 Honda Accord we're going to take a look at and show you how to install the Curt Custom Fit Class 1 Trailer Hitch Receiver with the inch and a quarter by inch and a quarter opening, its part number is C11085. All right, here's what the hitch looks like installed. As you can see we've got our round tube that's going to come across, here in the middle is the receiver tube opening, this gives us the inch and a quarter by inch and a quarter opening. We've got a reinforcement collar around the end there, it's nice and flush. This is going to be end set on our bumper, or behind our bumper, so we won't have to worry about bumping into it. Got our plate style safety chain connection points here on the bottom.

As you can see they've got a oval shaped opening, it should be no problem getting safety chains or stability straps connected there. Securing your items you'll be using the half inch pinhole. Now this is going to work great for whatever Class 1 accessory you'll choose. It looks like there's a pretty narrow gap between the bottom of that hole and this plate, so if you're using tumbler style locks or things like that, you will definitely want to stay with smaller diameter things. When it comes to towing, the hitch is going to offer a two hundred pound ton weight rating. It's the maximum downward force we can put here to our receiver tube opening.

We're going to have gross trailer weight rating of two thousand pounds. That's the total weight of our trailer and anything that we load off on it. We definitely also want to check the owner's manual in the Accord, see what its tow rating is, and we're going to go off of whichever of those numbers are the lowest. Now a few measurements that are going to be helpful in selecting your bike racks or cargo carriers, will be from the ground to the inside top edge of the receiver tube opening, we've got about eleven and a quarter inches. Then from the center of our hitch band hold to the outer most edges of our bumper, it's about three and a quarter. To begin our installation we need to lower down our exhaust, we've got an exhaust hanger here that we're going to pull off, and then just ahead of it, if we followed the pipe up, there's going to be another one here.

Now we're going to support this with a strap along the underside just so when we do take those hangers down it doesn't just fall down, we can control it with that. A little bit of lubricant's a good idea, to spray it on the hangers, that's going to help them slide off a little bit easier. A lot of times if we just pull from the back it'll pop off. Then we do the one up front. Now just on the backside of the canister there's going to be kind of a double style here, more of a triangle, we want to get that one separated as well. This one's a little bit harder to get to, you may want to use a pry bar and just try prying from the backside of it.

Then we'll put a little slack in our strap here, and that should give us plenty of room to get in there and work. Now it's time to remove the bolts that are holding our heat shield in, there's four of those. We've got one, two, we've got three, and four here. For those we'll use a ten millimeter socket. Now we'll set that aside and save our bolts because we will be putting it back up later. Now to access our hole location we need to make sure that our bolt, and also our spacer block will pass through. You can see our bolt fits fine, but it's a little tight for the spacer block, so just going to trim off the edge here to allow that to pass. Use a die grinder or a rotary tool, a hacksaw, whatever you've got. All right, now we'll go do the same thing for our passenger side. Now we'll feed our pull wire through our mounting location there. Bring it out of our access hole, then we need to feed on the spacer block. Also thread on our carriage bolt, then we'll feed these into the frame separately, seems to be the best method. Hold onto the rear and this comes down like that. We'll go take care of the other side in the same way. Now our U-bolt here in the middle, this is going to go around that recovery hook, that's a little loop on the back. You may have to tap it on with a hammer. That little undercoating on there is kind of get it a little tight so we can just wiggle it to loosen it up. Now we can guide our hitch up into position, it's a good idea to get an extra set of hands just to kind of help guide it. We want our U-bolt to come through the center portion. We want our carriage bolts to come through our outside flange here, then we want to pull our fish wires off and thread on one of our flange nuts. That'll hold this side up, while we get our other side taken care off. All right, now with both of those started, we'll come to the middle where we'll use our smaller flange nuts, and put those on our U-bolt. All right, now we'll go through and snug down our hardware. Now we need to check our instructions, find our torque specifications and get our hardware torqued down appropriately. All right, now for trimming up our heat shield, we want to measure over from this outside edge about four and three quarters of an inch. We'll put this right there. We want to measure up from the end about ten inches, and we're going to be getting rid of this outside section. This ten snip aviation shears should work fine. All right, now let's check and we'll make sure that that clears our hitch, and if not, we can trim out a little more. Yeah, looks like it's all going to be good. Heading to those exhaust hangers with a little more spray lube and we'll be ready to get our exhaust put back into position. Then we'll pull down our strap here and our hitch is going to be ready for use. With our exhaust back in place, that's going to complete our installation of the Curt Custom Fit Class 1 Trailer Hitch Receiver, part number C11085 on our 2010 Honda Accord.