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Today on our 2016 Chevrolet Camaro, we're going to be taking a look at and installing the "Draw-Tite Sportframe Trailer Hitch Receiver, Class I," part number is 24938. Now, here's what it's going to look like once it's installed. You can see it's going to fit up nicely against the bottom of the fascia. The only thing visible is going to be your receiver tube and your safety chain loops. It's going to be an inch-and-a-quarter by inch-and-a-quarter design, Class I, so it's going to work well with all your Class I accessories. It's going to have a nice black powder-coated finish to help protect against rust and corrosion. It's going to be a bolt-on design, no drilling required.

It's going to sandwich between your factory bumper and your frame rails using the factory hardware. This hitch is designed for 200 pounds of tongue weight, which is our downward force, and 2,000 pounds of gross trailer weight, which is the amount our loaded trailer can weigh. You'll want to consult with your owner's manual or your manufacturer to make sure your vehicle is able to tow that amount of weight and always use the lesser of the 2 amounts. Why don't we go ahead and give you some measurements that's going to aid you in selecting some accessories, such as a ball mount, a cargo carrier or a bike rack From the center of the hitch pin hole to the outermost part of the bumper, it's going to be about 4-and-a-half-inches. From the ground to the inside of the top of the receiver tube, it's going to be about 10-and-a-half-inches. Now, to begin our installation, we're going to have to remove the 7-millimeter bolts that go along the bottom of our fascia that hold it in place. It's going to be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 of them along the bottom. I'm going to go ahead and start by removing these.

There are a couple of plugs up inside our fender well here that we'll need to unplug. I have a black one here, in this case. We'll slide back that little rubber lock, then we can squeeze in on the center and we'll remove our plug. We'll unplug those. On this case, it's going to be for the back-up camera and for the lights on the rear of the car. Now we can go to the side of the fender well and we'll start removing the screws there as well.

We're going to have 1 fastener here, it's a T15. We'll have another one right here. They're going to be identical for the driver's side as the passenger's side, so whatever we do to this side, we'll be doing the same thing on the other side. There's actually going to be a third T15 up here, we'll have to remove that one as well. Once we have that third one out, we can just take this belt, we're going to pry it back, and right here you're going to see the 7-millimeter screw that goes up from the bottom side. We'll need to remove that.

We open the trunk up. Now, with the help of an assistant, we're going to go ahead and just start pulling our fascia. As we start releasing, we'll just go ahead and pull our fascia off and we're going to set it somewhere safe until we're ready to re-install it. Now we're going to go ahead and remove this bumper structure. There's going to be 4 15-millimeter nuts, 1 on the top, 1 over here and there would be 2 on the bottom side. Those are also going to be holding on your exhaust brackets. We'll go ahead and take the bottom ones off first. We're going to have 1, we have access through the inside of the bumper, there's a hole drill. We'll do the same thing for the other side. Now we'll slide the exhaust fender bracket off, just lay it to the side. Do that for both sides. Then, we can remove our bumper. We'll set this aside as well. Now we can take our hitch and we're going to set it on to the studs that the bumper was mounted on. It's going to be sandwiched between that and the bumper. We can go ahead and re-install the nuts. Now we can go ahead and snug down all of our bolts. Now we can go ahead and torque it down to the specifications in our instructions. Now we can get an assistant and we're going to set our bumper cover back into place. Just line up our tabs, snap our bumper into place. Now we can go ahead and reattach our plugs that we previously disconnected, slip the locks back in. Then, we can re-install all of our screws along the bottom and the inside of the inner fender wells. Now we can re-install the ones in the fender well as well. That's going to do it for our look at and install of the Draw-Tite Sportframe Trailer Hitch Receiver, Class I, part number 24938 on our 2016 Chevrolet Camaro.