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Hi, John with etrailer. Today, on our 2014 Volkswagen Jetta, we're gonna be taking a look at, and installing, the Blue Ox base plate. Now, keep in mind, if you do decide that you wanna flat tow, there are five components that you're gonna need. You're gonna need the base plate. You're gonna need the tow bar. You're gonna need the tow bar wiring, which will help you with the braking system or the lights on your vehicle.
You need a braking system and you need safety cables. The base plate is an essential component. It will give you the spots for, first, the tow bar hook up, the safety chains and your emergency breakaway switch. So, once you get to your destination, the base plate can stay on the vehicle. It's an easy system to hook up or to unhook.
You can remove your safety cables, the breakaway switch, and then these just pull, the pins. (metal chimes) (metal clanks) And that's out of your way and the tabs come right out. And you're good to go down the road. So, one of the things to keep in mind on the Jetta here is how low to the ground it is and where are these pins, the pin height versus the height of the hitch on the RV. Now, on this particular vehicle, we're coming in at 13 inches.
You wanna stay within a three-inch range. Meaning the hitch height here, we would probably, in this instance, need a six-inch drop on our receiver hitch to keep the plane even. Then when you're ready to hook back up and start towing, it's as easy as just inserting your pins (pin clicks) and bringing your tow bar down. If you have a wiring, we'd have a spot right here for wiring. (metal clanks) Safety cables.
(metal clanks) Finally, your emergency breakaway switch, and you're ready to tow. Now, the install on this Jetta wasn't the easiest. It's not impossible, but I definitely struggled with it and you might too. If you wanna see, I've got a few tricks. And if you wanna see how I did it, stick around. So, the first step in installing the base plate, we're gonna have to remove the front fascia base, the front bumper cover, let's call it. So, very first step, we have four T25 Torx bits up here on the front grill that need to come off. (driver tool roaring) And after those come off, there's clips in the bottom. We're gonna pull straight out on the grill (grill panel popping) and set that off to the side. Next, you're gonna grab a T30 and you've got two bolts. One here and one over here. Those need to come off right now. (driver tool roaring) Also, we're gonna take the center 10-millimeter bolt out. It's not stated in the instructions, but it'll make getting the bumper off easier. (driver tool roaring) Okay, the next step, we're gonna be removing, there's five T25 Torx screws and they're mounted on the inside of the wheel well right here. (driver tool roaring) Now, it says five, but on our particular vehicle here today, we actually have some missing. So, your vehicle might have all five or it might have any. Okay, once we peeled back the inner liner on this, we did find one of the Torx bits. It's connecting these two pieces, it's pointing straight up. It's this location right here. Now, that's gonna be a T25. Okay, the next step after the wheel well is we're coming underneath, and there's eight total T25 Torx bits. We got two in the middle and we have three on each side. (driver tool roaring) There's one here, we were missing one here. (driver tool roaring continues) We'll just move right across. Here's the two in the middle. (driver tool roaring continues) Our next step is actually gonna be to peel off the fascia here. It's a good idea, I got some painters tape, and we run painter's tape along the seam on the bottom and the top. That way, as we peel it back, in case it gets floppy, we're not gonna scratch the paint. I'll do this on both sides. (painter's tape squeaking) Then just go ahead and repeat that on the other side. So, the next step, we're actually gonna be peeling the fascia cover off. It'd be nice if you had an extra set of hands to help you hold both sides of the bumper. It'll basically just gonna peel and pop back. And then you have these center clips here. So, as you peel the edge of the fender here, (fascia popping) and you just wanna set this aside, maybe on a cart or somewhere safe. Our next step is gonna be to remove the styrofoam portion of the bumper. It is glued on and it has multiple points o
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