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This fully welded trailer hitch receiver bolts onto your vehicle's frame with no welding required. Powder coated steel is sturdy and corrosion resistant.
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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (14 Customer Reviews)
This fully welded trailer hitch receiver bolts onto your vehicle's frame with no welding required. Powder coated steel is sturdy and corrosion resistant.Overall the hitch is great. Installation was straightforward and easy enligh. Once in place the hitch had a nice hidden fit.
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I did need to use the spacers that go between the frame and hitch. How I installed them was after getting the hitch in place I loosely started the four mounting bolts so the hitch was secured. One side at a time I removed one bolt, slid the spacer into place and reinstalled the mounting bolt through the hitch and spacer. After removing the second bolt I used a pry bar to create enough space between the frame and the hitch to rotate the spacer up and into place. I loosely reinstalled the second bolt and repeated the process on the other side before torquing the four bolts to Curt's specs. It took a little bit of rotating and jockying the hitch to get the bolt, hole in the hitch, hole in the spacer, and threaded hole in the car's frame all lined up but it wasn't too difficult.
I removed three exhaust hangers. One on either side of the muffler and one on the exhaust pipe toward the front of the vehicle, lowered the exhaust as far as I needed it and secured it with a strap that I wrapped around the rear axle and exhaust.
The evaporative emissions canister was definitely in the way for mounting the driver's side of the hitch. The instructions say remove the two nuts and one bolt holding the canister and lower the canister out of the way. This didn't provide enough space to work so I disconnected the three quick release vapor lines and one electrical plug and removed the whole canister from the vehicle and set it aside. There are some clever little retaining clips that are part of the canister that lock it into place on the mounting studs. You expose these after removing the nuts, which are 12mm by the way not 13. I used a small pick to pry these retaining clips open so they released from the mounting studs and the canister came free.
The instructions that come with the hitch say you need to trim a fascia underneath and in the center of the vehicle for clearance of the hitch receiver. This is for an older model Niro as you can see in the instructions' photos. There is no such fascia on our HEV Niro. I can't speak to what it is like on the EV or the PHEV though. So, no trimming of anything was needed for this install for our hybrid model.
I hope this helps future customers.
This hitch is a perfect fit for the Kia Niro Hybrid. It looks great and works well for hauling a bike rack.
This is the 3rd hitch I have purchased from etrailer. The installation on all 3 went smoothly. They fit in the existing holes, so no drilling needed. The wire harness was installed as a plug in situation. Thanks for the good quality..
Quick and fast service for the return item and the replacement item I ordered.
Very impressive. The etrailer representative Candra G was super knowlegable and confirmed the correct hitch for my new 2023 Kia Niro. She followed up with information and in the end, the hitch arrived 3 days before expected.
I was very pleased with this purchse experience.
I installed this on my 2023 Kia Niro EV (Wave). This is my third Curt aftermarket hitch over the years, and this install was one of the more frustrating I've ever done. I think it's marked "easy" because it doesn't require fishwires or frame drilling, and that is a plus, but the positioning is very challenging.
It was clear I needed to use the spacer plates: without the spacer plates, the hitch is too lose (I can easily fit a finger between the hitch and the frame). With the spacer plates, however, getting the rear screws in is very challenging -- the tolerances are extremely tight, since the hitch has to be right up against the frame with the bulk of it inside the bumper. There are two improvements Curt could make that would give this 5 stars. 1) the spacer plates could have some sort of interlocking tabs that fit into slots in the hitch to prevent them from moving independently when positioning the hitch on the frame. It was incredibly frustrating to get the hitch into place and then have one of the spacer plates slide out of alignment. 2) Rather than fitting basically inside the bumper, the hitch could be mounted further back (closer to the front screws than the rear one) with a longer receiver tube. It would require more trimming of the lower body plate, but would give more flexibility when positioning it. However, the hitch is attached which is the important part.
Product came partially outside of the box with scratched metal and paint scratched off. It should come wrapped in a stronger box.
Received my hitch quickly:) All the reviews helped me in this purchase.
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