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Buick Rendezvous Trailer Hitch Installation Instructions

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Buick launched the Rendezvous as a 2002 mannequin and produced it by way of the 2007 mannequin 12 months. The corporate referred to as its new automobile a crossover sport utility automobile, though it has loads in widespread with a minivan. A transverse-mounted V-6 engine supplied its motive power. Increase the cargo capability of the Rendezvous by towing a trailer. Aftermarket hitches can be found for set up on Rendezvous fashions that didn’t come geared up with the manufacturing facility trailer-towing bundle. Some drilling of the automobile undercarriage is required for this process.

Buick Rendezvous Trailer Hitch Installation Instructions

1. Crawl below the rear of your Rendezvous and find the rear exhaust pipe and muffler hanger. Lubricate the rubber isolator on the hanger by spraying it with penetrating fluid. Maintain the muffler up with one hand. Pry the rubber isolator off the hanger bracket with a pair of exhaust-hanger removing pliers with the opposite hand. Decrease the muffler slowly in order that it hangs down from the undercarriage in order to not impede the set up of the trailer hitch.

2. Discover the 2 slots within the rearward finish of the underside of every body rail. Route the fish wire that got here with the hitch set up hardware up by means of the rearward slot on one of many body rails. Route the wire via the body and out the ahead slot within the rail. Make sure the coiled finish of the fish wire hangs down via the rearward slot.

3. Place the opening in a bolt block — included with the hitch set up hardware — over the threads of one of many hitch-mounting bolts. Thread the bolt onto the coiled finish of the fish wire. Pull the other finish of the fish wire by the body in order that threads protrude via the ahead slot within the body rail. Repeat the process to put in one other bolt and block within the reverse body rail.

4. Insert the 2 remaining bolts and bolts blocks into the rearward slots within the body rails. Make sure the bolt blocks relaxation flat on the within of the body rail and don’t intervene with the bolt blocks mounted on the bolts within the ahead slots.

5. Elevate the hitch into place underneath the automobile. Line up the vertical holes within the hitch-mounting flanges with the bolts put in within the body rails. Do to not push the bolts into the body rails. Make sure the vertical mounting tabs on the lower finish of the hitch make contact with the ahead aspect of the sheet-metallic finish panel of the automobile. Place lock washers and nuts over every bolt and tighten them finger-tight.

6. Drill into the automobile end panel with a 3/8 inch drill bit put in into an influence drill via every of the 4 holes — two per aspect — within the vertical mounting tab on the hitch. Place flat washers over the 4 remaining hitch-mounting bolts. Insert the bolts by the drilled holes within the rear facet of the top panel and through the hitch mounting tab holes. Place lock washers and nuts over the bolts and tighten them finger-tight.

7. Tighten all eight hitch-mounting bolts and nuts with a torque wrench to the tightness specified by the hitch producer — normally 20 to 120 foot-pounds, relying on the diameter of the bolts equipped with the hitch.

8. Increase the muffler with one hand. Work the rubber isolator over the lip within the hanger bracket with the exhaust hanger elimination pliers. Launch the muffler.

Read more : How to Install a Trailer Hitch on a Buick Rendezvous


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