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Hola, neighbors. It's Brad here at etrailer, and today we're taking a look and installing the etrailer class two trailer hitch on a 2018 Volkswagen Tiguan. Now, this is what your hitch is gonna look like once it's installed on your vehicle. And it is pretty nice looking, as you just had the receiver tube opening and the rest of it is actually a hidden cross tube. So it gives it that OEM look, you're not really sacrificing kind of having that hang down of a hitch as some vehicles have that kind of give it a utility look. This still has that OEM appearance, yet you're still able to have that hitch ready to use.

Now, this is gonna be a two inch by two inch receiver tube opening, so that's gonna be great for a lot of different accessories whether it be a ball mount for a small trailer or or a bike rack or a cargo carrier, whatever comes your way. This is gonna be great for it. You're also gonna see it is coated in this nice, black powder coat finish, so it's gonna look good for a long time. You also have this rolled steel safety chain loop, so that's gonna make it nice and easy for hooking up your loops or your chains when hooking up to a trailer. You'll also have your standard five eighths hitch pin hole.

Now this does not come with a pin and clip but there's plenty of options here available at etrailer. And a lot of times your accessories that you pick up will come with them. Now, as far as weight capacities on this particular hitch, you're gonna have a gross trailer weight rating of 3,500 pounds. So that's a decent amount of weight. You're also gonna have a tongue weight rating of 525 pounds.

And that's gonna be the weight pushing down on the inside of the receiver tube opening. So think of that as your bike racks or your cargo carriers that you're loading up. Now, as far as the trailer weight rating, that's gonna be the weight of the trailer plus the accessories loaded up. Now, just because the hitch can handle that, you're also gonna want to check to make sure the vehicle's owner's manual gives you a weight rating that's comparable with that. And between those two numbers, you're gonna wanna take the lower of the two, just so you stay safe.

You can see it actually sits a little recessed from the fascia itself. So that's something to keep in mind. From our hitch pin hole here to the outer part of our fascia, we're looking at about four inches. So keep that in mind when choosing accessories as it is gonna kind of cinch in a little bit. So you wanna make sure you're not making contact with your rear fascia. Now, as far as ground clearance, it's gonna be fairly low here at about eight and a half inches. So just keep that in mind when you're going over rough terrain or maybe inclines as mostly when your accessories are loaded up, going up a hill, those can get even lower to the ground. So keep that in mind when you are in those areas driving around, and also you're gonna want to just make sure that your accessories aren't dropping down with a shank or anything like that, as it can get pretty close. Now, overall, installation's very simple. You're gonna be dropping the exhaust down with just two bolts. So that's pretty easy. And you're gonna be reusing hardware that's already in the frame. Some models, you may have to use a fish wire technique, but it's not too difficult to do. You should be able to get this installed pretty quickly and be ready to use your hitch in a short afternoon. Let's take a look at that video now. To begin our installation, we're gonna start by dropping the exhaust down, and it's pretty easy. There's gonna be some 13 millimeter bolts that are gonna go on brackets that hold it up. Now, before we do that we're gonna wanna make sure that it's supported, that way the exhaust isn't kind of just resting, using its own strength. It can damage things. So what we're gonna do, we're just gonna run a cam buckle strap here across suspension, just to kind of cradle this. If you're doing this on the ground, you can simply set a block underneath your exhaust just make sure it's not hanging down supporting its own weight. So you can kind of pick any point here just on the suspension. And I'll just simply cinch this up. This is kind of nice, too, because once you have it tensioned, you can actually, if this is resting on it, you can actually adjust the cam buckle and lower that exhaust down as necessary. But this should support it as it drops down. So moving along, you're gonna see your exhaust hanger isolator here. This is the red rubber. Above that is gonna be the bracket. So now we're gonna be removing the two 13 millimeter bolts that go into the