Trailer Hitch Install 2007 Acura MDX - etrailer.com

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If you have been considering installing a hitch on your MDX for a trailer, bike rack or cargo carrier we will show you how easy it is. Some may back off when they see the instructions call for lowering the exhaust and removing the heat shield. You can do this! The video will show you how and you will save so much money doing this on your own.

The first thing we want to do that will help the install is lower the spare tire. Next we need to lower the exhaust and take off this heat shield too. These both go back up when we are done, but we need room to slip up the hitch so it will go up on the side of the frame here and mount in these four holes. At this point we will start removing the exhaust brackets and then we will move on to the heat shield. This is pretty flexible, we can move this out of our way a little bit to give us more working room. We have this side finished, now we will repeat for the other side.

Our next will be to basically install the hitch, and it would be a good thing to have an extra set of hands to help out with the lifting. We have the hitch mounted by these bolts here, it is a real super tight fit, and these plates are kind of bowed in a little bit. This is for good reason as they are bowed to fit in the car. Once you tighten everything down, these plates will fit solid against the frame. We have the one side loosely installed, now we will go over the other side and do the same thing. Now we can give them their final torque. Now that we have the hitch installed, we can re-install the heat shield. Now we can re-install the exhaust to its brackets. The last thing we need to do is put the spare tire back up and that will complete our install of our hitch. That concludes our install of part # V82111 on our 2007 Acura MDX.

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[schhosch]

Great info...would it be the same for an 05 mdx?

[etrailertv]

@schhosch This specific hitch will not fit a 2005 Acura MDX. If you go to etrailer(dot)com and enter the year, make, and model of your vehicle into our fitguide, you will find all of the hitches that will fit on your 05 MDX, and there are videos of those being installed, which will probably help you more than this video will.

[SeekerAHz]

Great video - very helpful. We have replaced the space saver spare with a full size spare tire. Does this mean we have to switch back to our space saver spare tire or are you saying we cannot carry any spare? Thanks very much!

[etrailertv]

@SeekerAHz You should be able to re-install the full size spare tire back into position once you are done installing the hitch. You may need to adjust where it is a bit, but it should be able to go back in place.

[skavenger4130]

I have a question how much weight can a 2005 Acura tl hull?? Max weight I mean??

[etrailertv]

@skavenger4130 That information should be in your owner's manual or you can contact the dealer and they should be able to help you figure out what your maximum gross towing weight and tongue weight are for your vehicle.

[etrailertv]

@Jdakota The holes in the frame are from the factory, so all 2007 Acura MDXs will have the 8 mounting holes. Custom hitches are designed to use as many pre-drilled holes in the vehicles frame to minimize the amount of drilling for the installaer. In this case, no further holes need to be drilled. The same will go for your MDX.

[Jdakota]

Are these holes on all models of the 2007 Acura or will the installer have to create holes?

[dperique]

Thanks -- good info.