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Blue Ox Base Plate Kit Installation - 2018 Ford Edge- Video
Hey everybody, Ryan here at etrailer. Today, on our 2018 Ford Edge, we're gonna be showing you how to install the Blue Ox base plate kit with removable arms. But before we do that, why don't we just check this one out and make sure it's the right kit for you. So, before we kinda jump right in, I figured it'd be useful just to kinda refresh yourselves on the main parts that we're gonna need to flat tow our Edge down the road in the first place. And you're gonna have a total of five main components. The first one being, your base plate. more
8/3/2022 8:34:21 AM
Roadmaster Crossbar-Style Base Plate Kit Installation - 2018 Ford Edge- Video
That there is a 2018 Ford Edge, you're going to be taking a look at, I'm gonna show you how to install the Roadmaster Crossbar style base plate kit with removable arms. So our base plate is going to look like when it's installed. It's going to be one of five main components in a flat tow setup. The other four are going to be your wiring, your braking system, your safety cables, and your tow bar. What our base plate is going to do, it's going to give us a solid connection point between our tow bar on our motor home, and our vehicle to safely flat tow it. It's going to come with the brackets, it's going to have a spring loaded pin. more
2/11/2021 1:48:06 PM
Blue Ox Base Plate Kit Installation - 2018 Ford Edge BX2657- Video
Hi there, Ford owners. Today, we're going to be taking a look and showing you how to install Blue Ox's baseplate, for your 2018 Ford Edge. There's five main components you'll need when flat towing your vehicle behind your motor home. You'll need your tow bar, which is the connection between your motor home and your vehicle. You'll need your baseplate, which is the connection point that you'll put on the vehicle that your tow bar will attach to. Your safety cables, which is a supplemental connection, in addition to your tow bar. more
12/3/2020 11:37:09 AM
Demco Tabless Base Plate Kit Installation - 2014 Ford Edge- Video
Shane: Hi, I'm Shane with etrailer.com. Today we're gonna be taking a look at, and I'm gonna show you how to install, Demco's Tabless and Base Plate Kit on our 2014 Ford Edge.There are five main components to a flat tow setup: your base plate, your wiring, your tow bar, your safety cables, and your braking system.What our base plate is gonna do for us is it's gonna be a solid connection point between our tow bar and our towed vehicle. You can see with our fascia removed, our base plate is going to attach directly to the chasse of the vehicle to give us that solid anchor point for our tow bar.You can see when not in use it maintains a nice, clean look on the front of the vehicle. We're gonna have our safety chain looped here, which they're not gonna stick out too far. Again, maintains that nice, clean look. We don't have a lot of protruding items or anything like that sticking out of the front of the vehicle. more
3/27/2019 4:12:15 PM
Roadmaster EZ5 Base Plate Kit Installation - 2017 Ford Edge- Video
Speaker 1: Today on our 2017 Ford Edge, you're gonna be taking a look at and I'm gonna show you how to install the Roadmaster EZ5 Base Plate Kit with removable arm. Part number RM-524444-5.This is what our base plate looks like when it's installed. This is gonna be one of five main components in a flat-tow setup. The other four are gonna be your tow bar, your braking system, your wiring, and your safety cables. That's gonna help you safely flat-tow your vehicle down the road while you're traveling.Now as you can see with our base plate installed, it's not gonna stick out of the front of the vehicle too much when not in use, so it's gonna help the vehicle maintain that nice, clean look. It's gonna have your connection points for your removable arms, safety cables, and your wiring accessories.As far as the installation goes, it is a fairly straightforward, pretty easy installation to be done in just a couple hours. more
10/2/2018 12:27:12 PM
Best 2015 Ford Edge Base Plate Options- Video
Speaker 1: Today we're gonna be taking a look at the best base plate options for your 2015 Ford Edge.Here on top we're gonna have the Roadmaster, part number 524454-4. Here in the center we have the Blue Ox, part number BX2657. Here on the bottom we have another Blue Ox, part number BX 2667. Out of these three, if it was my vehicle, my choice would be the Roadmaster. The reason is, it's gonna install a lot easier, it's only gonna require you to open one hole in your chassis to a half inch. The other two are gonna require a lot more modifying on your chassis to get 'em installed.This bottom Blue Ox here is gonna be a lot heavier. more
8/10/2018 11:47:48 AM
Best 2018 Ford Edge Base Plate Options- Video
Speaker 1: Today we're going to be taking a looking at the best base plate options for your 2018 Ford Edge. Here on top we're going to have the Road-Master, part number 524454-4. Here in the center we have the Blue Ox, part number BX2657. Here, on the bottom we have another Blue Ox, part number BX2667. Out of these three, if it was my vehicle, my choice would be the Road-Master. The reason is it's going to install a lot easier, it's only going to require you to open one hole in your chassis to a half inch. more
8/10/2018 11:47:36 AM
Best 2017 Ford Edge Base Plate Options- Video
Speaker 1: Today we're going to be taking a look at the best base plate options for your 2017 Ford Edge. Here on top, we're going to have the Roadmaster, part number 524454-4. Here in the center, we have the Blue Ox, part number BX2657. Here on the bottom, we have another Blue Ox part number BX2667. Out of these three, if it was my vehicle, my choice would be the Roadmaster. The reason is it's going to install a lot easier. more
8/10/2018 11:47:24 AM
Best 2016 Ford Edge Base Plate Options- Video
Speaker 1: Today, we're going to be taking a look at the best base plate options for our 2016 Ford Edge. Here on top, we're going to have the Roadmaster, part number 524454-4. Here in the center, we have the Blue Ox, part number BX2657. Here on the bottom, we have another Blue Ox, part number BX2667. Out of these three, if it was my vehicle, my choice would be the Roadmaster. The reason is, it's going to install a lot easier. more
8/10/2018 11:47:12 AM
Blue Ox Base Plate Kit Installation - 2017 Ford Edge- Video
Speaker 1: Today on this 2017 Ford Edge, we'll be having a look at and showing you how to install the Blue Ox baseplate kit with removable arms, part number BX2667.Here's what your baseplate looks like installed. As you can see, it's a nice concealed look. It goes right in the corner of our fascia here, up out of the way, and doesn't affect our grill opening really here at all; so it gives us a really clean look. We have a easy attachment point for the safety cables that'll go between our Edge and our motor home. Using our safety cable here, you can see we have plenty of clearance, and it won't contact any of our painted surfaces at all.We have these prongs in the front of our baseplate, which serve as an attachment point for any of our electrical needs for doing a flat tow setup, for our towed vehicle lighting systems. We also have a mounting location to put your breakaway switch for your supplemental braking system.Now, one thing that I really like about this baseplate compared to others on the market is that with removable arms having a small diameter, it really gives us a clean look. more
5/8/2018 4:33:05 PM
Roadmaster XL Base Plate Kit Installation - 2008 Ford Edge- Video
Speaker 1: Today on our 2008 Ford Edge we're gonna take a look at and also show you how to install the Roadmaster XL baseplate kit with removable arms. Part number is 4408-1.Now, here's what your baseplate's gonna look like not in use. We'll have our arms removed at this point. And as you can see, you're not really changing the looks of the front of the vehicle very much. Your safety chain connection point can also be removed to leave you with a much cleaner look, as well.And when it is time to haul our vehicle we'll take the removable arms, we'll slide it in so that the tabs are on the same side. And we've got our pin that we slide through, and we secure it on the other side with a clip. more
1/24/2018 12:30:13 PM
Blue Ox Base Plate Kit Installation - 2011 Ford Edge- Video
Speaker 1: Today on this 2011 Ford Edge, we will be having a look at and showing you how to install the Blue Ox Base Plate Kit with Removable Arms, part number BX2628.Here's what our base plate looks like installed. This base plate gives us the vital connection point between our Ford Edge and our motor home, allowing us to safely and easily flat tow it. One of the great features about this base plate compared to others on the market, is that once we have arrived at our destination and we have unhooked our tow bar from our base plate, we have these removable arms where you can pull this pin, rotate it 90 degrees, and remove the arm and you have very little sticking out from the front, giving you a nice, clean look. Our other side's the same way.Next to where our removable arm goes into, we have our safety cable attachment point right here. Your safety cables will go in here, and then clip onto your motor home, providing you the sense of security and the required safety cable that you need when you're flat towing. Over towards the driver's side a little bit we have an attachment point here for mounting any electrical connectors that we may have, such as a six way round, a four pole flat, or whatever other electrical style connector that we're using in order to provide our Edge with a towed vehicle lighting system or part of your braking system. more
11/21/2017 1:17:11 PM
Blue Ox Base Plate Kit Installation - 2015 Ford Edge- Video
Today on our 2015 Ford Edge, we're going to take a look at and show you how to install the Blue Ox Base Plate Kit with removable arms, part number BX2656. Here's what our base plate's going to look like when installed. As you can see, we're going to have our two removable arms, safety chain connection points, and our wiring connection point there. Now, this was added during our install just to ease everything as well as our breakaway switch and our air valve. I highly recommend doing this when you have this fascia off the vehicle. You can imagine trying to run these wires, our two wires for our breakaway switch and our air line up here after this was all put back together. Just wouldn't be ideal. more
10/19/2015 11:36:06 AM
Blue Ox Base Plate Kit Installation - 2014 Ford Edge- Video
Today on our 2014 Ford Edge, we're going to show you how to install the Blue Ox Base Plate Kit with the Removable Arms, part number BX2628. Here's what the base plate looks like once it's installed on the vehicle and the removable arms are in place. As you can see, they use a pushpin style fastener. Just beside that you're going to have your safety chain connection points, that's going to be on both sides. Right here in the middle, slightly offset to the right or to the driver's side you're going to have your connection points for your wiring. Now we didn't set wiring up on this base place setup yet, so we don't have anything in place but you could notch out back behind there just like we did for the base plate and that's going to allow you to get your plug in there, no problem. The arms themselves, simply by pulling and rotating, we're going to be able to take those off and it really gives us a nice, clean look. Not nearly as big as a lot of the things you see out here on the front of the vehicle. more
7/6/2015 10:44:44 AM
Roadmaster XL Base Plate Kit Installation - 2012 Ford Edge- Video
Today, on this 2012 Ford Edge, we're going to show you the Roadmaster XL Base Plate Kit with Removable Arms, part number 4408-1. This is what the base plate looks like when it's installed on the Ford Edge. While you can see, when it's not being towed, the receiver ends here on passenger side and of course one on the driver side. It does require some cutting around the plastic fascia in the grill right here. Other than that, there's very little to show on our base plate. This tab right here with the hole is designed for your safety chain cables. more
6/16/2015 10:36:07 AM
Blue Ox Base Plate Kit Installation - 2013 Ford Edge- Video
Today, on our 2013 Ford Edge, we'll be installing the Blue Ox Base Plate Kit with removable arms, part# bx2628. To being our install, we'll first go ahead and open the hood. Then we'll remove the upper front fascia securing fasteners. A total of 2 bolts and 4 push pin fasteners. These push pin fasteners will have the center screw out, and then you can remove the entire fastener. Next, we'll move to the wheel well. Each wheel well, there are 3 fasteners thatll need to be removed. Quick tech tip: The correct socket for these fasteners is a 5.5 millimeter socket. more
3/11/2014 12:40:28 PM
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