$810 For Factory Trailer Hitch Receiver

[Adospeed]

Well well!! This is great! Great job working through to completion @RonR1959 !!

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[CPrevost]

I can't believe how intense it is to add one if you didn't order with one installed. I've had a truck for the last 20 years and have never towed anything but am glad that I opted to order the hitch for 100 bucks. I don't think I could manage this procedure. Thanks much for the detailed instructions. You are going to save a bunch of people tons of headache.

 

[Miles777]

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[Dogo X]

Here’s what I just went through with an XL hybrid I picked up at a dealer after a customer canceled his order. The XL he ordered don’t have a hitch. It had almost everything else I wanted. My order I placed on 19 October with the Lux pkg and CP360 may not even get built this model year with all the constraints on packages, accessories, and parts which includes the shortage of chips. I refuse to remove anything, so I got extremely lucky to pick up this XL on 27 January.

I ordered the OEM crash bar with the receiver on it from Ford for $305. I took the truck to have it installed at a shop that specializes in installing hitches and harnesses, only to find out there’s no wiring harness nor pigtail on the truck at all to plug into. I paid $100 for the crash bar installation, and proceeded to speak to the shop foreman at the local Ford dealer. He printed schematics of the truck, went outside, opened my hood to check the fuse box, and sure enough, no fuses and connectors in the well for the harness. He got under the truck and confirmed that there isn’t a wiring harness.

Another member here ordered a wiring harness for a Bronco Sport and installed it himself. There are pigtails to plug into the rear lights, and the harness has a direct wire to the battery and its own fuse box. When he installed it, he had to switch the red and brown wires on the harness, and he got it to work.

I bought a Curt Bronco Sport wiring harness and went back to the trailer shop where I had the crash bar installed. I told him what I mentioned above, and showed him a picture. Within an hour, the harness was installed and now I have lights.

So, $305 for the hitch bar, $100 to install it, $108 for the wiring harness, and $175 to install it. $688 total.

Yes, way more expensive than $100, but keep in mind, this was an XL I picked up that a customer couldn’t take delivery on. Plus, I sure wasn’t going to wait around to who knows when for my hybrid XLT to be built. And lastly, I couldn’t go w/o the hitch and lights, as I make raised bed garden boxes and deliver them to customers using my 5’ x 8’ utility trailer.

could you provide the link for the kit? Bought one from the lot without a hitch

thanks in advance

 

[hr1551]

I ordered my XL with hitch in Canada. It was listed in ford.ca as an option for $140 CAD. Was in ford.com for $100.
Today in ford.ca it is a $400 option.
Here is my original order form:

 

[Miles777]

I had one installed by U-haul for my Mazda B-3000. I can't remember, but I think it was $325 and they did a great job.

That's about what it SHOULD cost, but NO!

U-Haul would not even give me a quote to install a hitch receiver on the Maverick because Ford made it so stinking hard to make this an add-on accessory.

 

[Deleted member 5597]

com'on. I ordered my XL with hitch in Canada. It was listed in ford.ca as an option for $140 CAD. Was in ford.com for $100.
Today in ford.ca it is a $400 option.
Here is my original order form:

Some of us happen to pick up a Maverick that a customer canceled that didn’t have a hitch receiver. So “Come On” is what I say had you read all of the posts before commenting “Come On”!

 

[GaryG]

E-Trailer now makes the plugin harness for the Maverick. Now just waiting for the price to come down a bit!
https://www.etrailer.com/Trailer-Wiring/Ford/Maverick/2022/119250KIT.html?VehicleID=20226007872

 

[Mymaverick2021]

What a crock of crap, a $100.00 factory costing $810.00 at the dealer and all due to ford/dealers encouraging customers to remove the option due to constraints

I never heard of the hitch being a constraint issue ever, it was things like SIBL, COPILOT360 I know it doesn't dull the pain bit sometimes you gotta make the informed choice

 

[Lone Star Proud]

I can't believe how intense it is to add one if you didn't order with one installed. I've had a truck for the last 20 years and have never towed anything but am glad that I opted to order the hitch for 100 bucks. I don't think I could manage this procedure. Thanks much for the detailed instructions. You are going to save a bunch of people tons of headache.

I'm kinda like you. i have only towed one thing in my entire life, but for $100 i thought "what the hell". I may never use it but it might make the truck more valuable to someone else when i resell it eventually.

 

[OleFordGuy]

I never heard of the hitch being a constraint issue ever, it was things like SIBL, COPILOT360 I know it doesn't dull the pain bit sometimes you gotta make the informed choice

The hitch itself wasn't the constraint, but it is included in the Lux Packages which Ford/Dealers were encouraging to be removed from the build was/is my point

 

[NNJGUY]

I just got a text from the dealer that I bought my Maverick from. $810 for a trailer hitch receiver and wiring, installed (plus tax). I was told when I ordered that it would delay delivery ($100 I think that it was). Does anyone know where I can get one, and install it myself? Or probably just wait until someone does make them.

Put trailer hitch receiver in my 2015 suburu last year. $400.

 

[Rob Cactus Gray]

I can't believe how intense it is to add one if you didn't order with one installed. I've had a truck for the last 20 years and have never towed anything but am glad that I opted to order the hitch for 100 bucks. I don't think I could manage this procedure. Thanks much for the detailed instructions. You are going to save a bunch of people tons of headache.

The hitch can be used for a bumper step, bike rack, cargo carrier, wheel chair holder, or even what my wife wants me to get…

 

[Mymaverick2021]

The hitch itself wasn't the constraint, but it is included in the Lux Packages which Ford/Dealers were encouraging to be removed from the build was/is my point

Well then if the hitch was a need factor you could have added it to your build after you dropped the LUX Package

 

[OleFordGuy]

Well then if the hitch was a need factor you could have added it to your build after you dropped the LUX Package

Very true, but I would guess there's a good number that didn't think of that at the time. What's the deal, give it a rest

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