CURT 13240 Class 3 Trailer Hitch, 2-Inch Receiver, Fits Select Hyundai Tucson, GLOSS BLACK POWDER COAT

I purchased this hitch for a 2016 Hyundai Tucson Limited AWD. The instructions could have been better for sure. It is pretty simple as long as you do this:Get some WD40 to spray the rubber exhaust hanger above the exhaust tips. The lower hanger. Don't worry, it won't fall on you if you do this. Then you will need to put some pressure on the rubber hanger to slide it off of the metal rod/hanger. Once you do, the exhaust will hang down just enough for you to angle the hitch upwards towards the holes in the frame where you will bolt the bolts 2 the frame. 4 bolts for each side.You'll see in the directions that you will need to remove the plastic housings from the drivers rear & passenger rear of the underside. Really easy. Get a small tipped flat head screw driver to be able to pop the pins out. 4 each side. Once the pins are out, the plastic boxes just pull down.You are going to need a 17mm socket & a 6 inch or longer extension to be able to reach the vertical bolts. The horizontal bolts won't need an extension. If you have a torque wrench, tighten the bolts to 40lbs, that's what it calls for. Once the bolts are tight, don't forget to slide the exhaust back onto the hanger. It will slide on very easy.Once note, I applied a paint sealant to the entire hitch to help protect it. If you don't have sealant, just use whatever wax you have & put maybe 2 coats on it. I purchased a hitch cover that just slides into the receiver via pressure fit. No pin or anything to hold it in. It was $5.99 at my local auto parts store. I should have gotten the one that says Curt, but oh well. I hope this helps anyone that's worried about installing this or thinks that it may be hard. It really was pretty easy. Took me 40 minutes with everything, from set up to putting everything away. If you have ramps to drive it up on, it's going to make your job much much easier. I do not have a wiring kit for it. I don't plan on towing anything. I'm using this for my bike rack & I'm going to buy one of the baskets to put stuff in. Its not that noticeable having it installed. It doesn't stand out at all. It is a good quality hitch that I'm hoping lasts a long time. Sure beats the $450+ bucks the dealership wanted!

Receiver very well engineered, fit was perfect with no interference with close tolerance of car components

This is my first hitch on any vehicle I have owned and I was a bit apprehensive as to the ease of installation but after watching a YT video I thought I would give it a try. It was straightforward enough to install, at least with removing the plastic panels on the left and right sides and installing the bolts and tightening everything down. (Make sure you have a torque wrench to get the correct torque.) I didn't even need to jack up the vehicle. The hard part for me since I didn't jack up the vehicle was getting leverage to remove the rubber muffler bushing. After fighting with it for too long (30 minutes) since I didn't have a pry bar that would fit under the vehicle in such a way to give me enough leverage, I figured I would put a small flat screwdriver on the front side of the bushing to cause it to slide over the lip of the metal muffler hanger thus making it easier to get the bushing off. From there it was easy to finish up the installation. The problem with the bushing is not the fault of the hitch just in getting it off so you can drop the muffler enough to get the hitch in place to install the bolts. (I couldn't find any way to force the hitch into position without dropping the muffler.) Other than that problem, the hitch installation was a 30-45 minute process without jacking up the vehicle, allowing for a first timer's taking it slow so as to not ruin any part of the vehicle or hitch. The hitch is well painted and should last quite awhile. I would purchase this again or any probably Curt hitch in the future.

Got this at a discount as a used item described as damaged. Some paint was scraped off. Surprisingly all the hardware was there despite the box being a total wreck. Easy to install with 8 bolts that are easy to get access and I didn't have to drop the muffler as instructed, I was able to pull it down far enough to snake the hitch through. I did have to remove two plastic splash shields - one on each side - temporarily to get the horizontally oriented bolts in and tightened. Installed on a 2017 Hyundai Tucson SE AWD.

Fairly easy to install, had to lower exhaust to fit on passenger side. Watched a video on YouTube. Used channel locks for the removal of muffler instead of special tool. Very happy with fit and price!

I just received my Curt Mfg. hitch and it arrived on my doorstep with no box (just as you see in the first picture). The hardware was taped to the receiver and it was covered in scratches (some that went to bare metal) because this item probably weighs 40lbs and was getting tossed around in a truck for delivery. I could have lived with that but on one side of the hitch was a huge blister in the powder coat that was filled with grease (see pic). Not only was this a huge mess but when I cleaned up the flaking powder coat the metal under that greasy blister was clearly compromised. I called Curt Mfg. to ask what was going on and the customer service rep. told me that this is the first he's ever heard of a grease blister. According to him the hitches are acid dipped before powder coating and if any defects are present on the poster powder coating inspection, they are re-dipped and re-coated. No coating or dipping is done by hand so there's no room for a blob of grease to enter into the process. He also mentioned that Curt ships the hitches in boxes to Amazon but Amazon chooses to remove them from the boxes for shipment. Great idea. Scratch a perfectly good powder coat finish to save space/money in the truck.It looks like a great product but I returned this one and I'm buying it from Curt Mfg. directly.