etrailer | How to Set Up Your Curt Front Mount Trailer Hitch Receiver on a 2020 Chevrolet Colorado

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Hello neighbors, it's Brad here at etrailer and today we're taking a look and installing the CURT front hitch trailer receiver on a 2020 Chevy Colorado. Now this is what the front hitch is gonna look like on the front of the Colorado and it sits fairly far recessed back and there's a little bit of trimming on the air dam, but overall it looks fairly clean. The receiver tube opening is gonna be a two inch by two inch, which is gonna be great for a bunch of different accessories. You're gonna have tons of options whether you're planning on putting a winch, a bike rack, cargo carrier or even maybe a snowplow. There's plenty of those available in a two inch configuration. All of them are gonna stay in place with a 5/8 pin and clip.
This is not included with the front hitch but a lot of times when you pick up accessories they'll have one included. If you wanna get a locking version we have those available here at etrailer. This is really nice, especially if you plan on leaving your accessories on the front. You can lock 'em in place and know that no one's gonna walk away with them. Now this does have some pretty good weight capacities.
If you're planning on putting a ball mount on front to move some trailers around. You can go up to a 5,000 pound gross trailer weight rating which is gonna be the weight of the trailer plus the accessories that are loaded up. Your tongue weight rating is gonna be the downward pressure that's put on the receiver tube opening so any of your suspended accessories. So if you're putting a bike rack on front something like that it's gonna come in at 500 pounds, which is pretty good. You could probably get a pretty large bike rack or a large cargo carrier or even a plow up front that should be able to handle that capacity.
Now as far as the straight line pull if you're using a winch or in that application it's actually 9,000 pounds, so it's pretty serious. But you do want to check a vehicle's owner's manual to see if there's any weight capacities that you need to adhere to. And also take note of the accessories loaded up make sure you're not overloading any of them in the process. Now I did mention that it sits fairly far recessed back. So from the center of the hitch pin hole to the furthest point of the bumper it's looking like we have about five inches.
And that's gonna be important when choosing accessories to make sure that you have the clearance to where it's not gonna make contact with the front of the vehicle. It's also important if you're planning on getting a ball mount to move those trailers you might wanna get one with an extended shank to give yourself a little bit of clearance there. Now as far as the ground clearance it's fairly low but not terrible here. It's coming in at right at one foot. So that's something to keep in mind as you have something that may be suspended or honestly any of your accessories up front. If you're going over large bumps or an incline those are gonna want to go to the ground a little bit quicker. So keep that in mind when you have any accessories loaded up on front. Now as far as the installation goes, there's a little bit of trimming required on the front air dam. You also have to trim a little bit of the skid plate there, but not a whole lot. And overall it's really just four bolts that bolt into factory location. So this is a pretty easy installation. You can definitely do this in your driveway or garage. I do recommend having a floor jack ready to kind of pop this in place. But other than that you could probably knock this out in about half an hour or so. Follow along with the installation and we'll make sure you get your front hitch installed. First step for installation is determining whether or not you want to remove your front air dam. You can take this whole thing off and that front hitch is gonna sit here nice and clean but if you plan on keeping this you are gonna have to trim to give it clearance to be able to fit in this spot and it's pretty easy. There's some measurements that are found in the instruction manual and behind here I found a reference point that makes it pretty easy to center up. And what I did is this center notch here where there's a mounting screw just at the edge where these taper down, that's exactly three inches which the instruction calls for. So I ran my tape down just to give me a nice clean line and then measured up from the bottom three and a half inches. And that's gonna give us the spot that we need to trim out. As far as cutting this out, you can use a Dremel, you can use a multi-tool like I'll be using, really anything