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Ryan: Hey everybody, Ryan here at Etrailer.Today on our 2020 Toyota Highlander, we're going to be taking a look at and showing you how to install the Curt class three trailer hitch receiver.A lot of our Highlander customers said their favorite thing about this hitch is the way it's going to look on the back of your SUV, and I'd have to agree with them. I think it looks right at home. For the most part it's not going to be noticeable at all. You are going to see the receiver too and the safety chain plates. And these plates are kind of a different style. I kind of like them since they are a little bit more visible actually, in my opinion, it just kind of brings everything together.

When it's just the receiver tube opening, it can look a little out of place if you will. Once you step back and take a look at it, it's going to look like it's almost factory.So when it comes to these Highlanders, they're really versatile vehicles and you can use them to do a little bit of everything with. The hitch is going to be no different. It's going to be good for some towing if that's what you plan on using it for, but it's also going to be good for those hitch mounted accessories; things like bike racks, or even cargo carriers.In particular, those folding accessories should work out real good for you, and that's because the hitch is going to give us some really good clearance. The end of the receiver tube opening is actually going to come out past the bumper just a little bit.

So you shouldn't have any issues at all when you do go to store those accessories in that upright folded position.So this is going to be a class three hitch. So it's going to give us a two inch by two inch receiver tube opening, which is a very common size and there's a ton of different types of accessories that'll work well with it. It's also going to have a reinforced collar for extra strength. And in my opinion, I think it makes it look a little more complete too. It just has a nice finish to it.This is going to have the standard five eighths sized pin hole.

The pin and clip does not come included, but if you need one, you can find it here at Etrailer. We talked about this a little bit earlier; these plate style safety chain openings. So not only are they going to look good, but since they do sit behind our pin and clip and kind of in an upright position, they're going to give us more than enough room to use just about any size hook that we might have.The hitch is going to give us some pretty good weight capacities. As far as the maximum gross tongue weight rating goes, it's going to be 500 pounds and that's going to be the amount of weight pushing down on the hitch. That's a pretty high number, so you should be able to use just about any size cargo carrier or bike rack that you would want to.

As far as the maximum gross trailer weight rating goes, it's going to be 5,000 pounds. That's going to be the amount of weight that's pulling on the hitch. So that's the weight of your trailer plus anything that you might have on it. Now I do always suggest it's never a bad idea to check in your Toyota owner's manual to make sure your Highlander can pull that much weight safely.Now let's go ahead and take a couple of measurements to see which accessories will work best with our Highlander. If you go from the ground to the top inside edge of the receiver tube opening, it's going to be right at 17 inches. So chances are pretty good if you do plan on doing some towing, you'll probably need to get a ball mount with a very slight rise.If you go from the center of the hitch pin hole to the very edge of our bumper, it's going to be right at about two inches. You can use that measurement to figure out if any folding accessories you might have can be stored in this upright position without contacting the bumper.Now a big question we get asked is if those Highlander models that have the automatic lift gate assist is still going to work whenever the hitch is in place. Now our particular model that we have here today does not have that option, so I'm not able to test it, but I can tell you from my experience in the past with really all different types of makes and models of vehicles that have that feature, once you put the hitch on it usually does still work. Sometimes though you may have to find that sweet spot and figure out where you need to put your foot to get it to work properly every single time.So at the end of the day, a hitch you really can't go wrong with. It's going to check all the boxes for me, at least in my opinion. It's going to look good, have pretty good weight capacities, an