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My 2015 F Sport with tow hitch installed

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Old 03-01-16, 02:27 PM
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Default My 2015 F Sport with tow hitch installed

picked up a hitch from U-Haul a couple weeks ago:
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Took it to my friend who owns a body shop and the install from start to finish was about 1 1/2 hours. He said the pre-drilled holes needed to be "massaged" a little bit to fit the holes in the Lexus bumper bracket, but otherwise things went smooth.

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Old 03-01-16, 02:31 PM
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Looks good. That lady guarding your garage is pretty creepy.
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it's funny to see little hitch on luxury cars for me!

dont take me wrong OP...
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Damn what wax do you use? Lol so Shiney
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Originally Posted by shurik74
it's funny to see little hitch on luxury cars for me!

dont take me wrong OP...
I concur, but once you have sunk money into 3 of these, the expense gets rediculous.

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Originally Posted by buckets
Damn what wax do you use? Lol so Shiney
Meguiars quick detailer:

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V. nice. I haven't found one for the AWD F sport. Someone said they changed the rear.
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Originally Posted by wiredup
V. nice. I haven't found one for the AWD F sport. Someone said they changed the rear.
Found that out doing my research.

However, I read a post from an AWD owner who was able to take a RWD hitch and have it modified for use on their car.

Probably need to find a body shop who isn't afraid to do some light cutting and trimming of the hitch to make it work.

When I called Curt Mfg., they said the AWD suspension is in the way and the bumper support is slightly different on the AWD cars.
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Looks good! Hmm. Wife has a non Fsport awd. I guess I need to look into that.

Any pics from the install? Or maybe a shot from down low so we can see what needed to be trimmed?

Thanks!!
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Here are the installation instructions.

http://b.cdnbrm.com/images/info/curt/11366.pdf
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