one of the foglight lenses on my 99 Pathfinder SE has a small hole in it, and there's now some orange-y looking gunk in the light, so I figured I clean it out. How to remove the fog light? The bolt on the right side seems to adjust the angle... and I'm hoping I don't have to take apart a bunch of stuff just to handle this task...
Now to my rant: Anybody install a Curt brand trailer hitch (square tubing) on their Pathfinder? Unlike the tow brackets, which feature an oval hole and two circular holes to enable easy install of them, this @#$%&$! Curt hitch has barely oversize round holes, and they don't line up with my frame holes!
They claim 40 minutes install time, which is about right, considering you have to first remove the two brackets. And considering it took 20 minutes to install -- start to finish -- a 'Valley' brand hitch on my girlfriend's Xterra, I figured the Curt otherwise wouldn't be too much different.
Wrong. I was laying underneath the damn truck for 90 minutes trying to push, pull, shove, twist (yeah right) the hitch so I could get more than one bolt in on each side.
Lousy design. And they should radius the welded reinforcements they put on the lower holes, so the edges don't scratch the crap out of the frame (creating a home for future rust) and they should furnish bolts with a better corrosion resistant coating like the OEM bolts I pulled out. And maybe they should ship their hitches in a BOX so they don't get scratched to hell by UPS en route -- and Curt brags about their finish.
So, I've got a hitch that won't fit, and wasted 2 hours of my life to no avail, and I'll be damned if I'm gonna take the drill to the sucker before I call them. They're probably closed until July 5th.
Note: a friend at work suggest this brand gets good reviews, even though he also said it took him about 3 hours to install a Curt hitch on a 2002 Honda CR-V.
And last but not least, the Curt drawing shows the receiver barely protrudes (maybe an inch) beyond the plumb line of the rear bumper, which is what I wanted -- as close to flush as practical. In reality, this thing, if I could even get it installed completely, would protrude at least 4". Even their drawing is wrong.
