There's probably some people considering a hitch and wondering if the OEM install is any different than mudmans gallery of the Curt hitch install. It's the same. I've also included a shot of what it looks like to get access to the rear cargo panel to install the control module.

Pointers:
- For the actual hitch install, follow the TSB. It's excellent.
- For the control module install in the cargo area, you don't need to literally remove every panel like the workshop manual says. Remove the floor cover and right cover (one with the two strap hold downs). Remove D pillar. Loosen c-pillar leaving attached at top. Loosen right side of back roof liner (needed to remove d-pillar). Loosen the right cargo side and pull away to reach in and install the control module. I have the workshop manual showing all the clips if anyone needs it.
- Unplugging the battery under your *** is too much work. Just unplug the ground (drivers right side under seat/floor mat - has plastic cover).

See there, I've done my good deed for the week. Now no newbies (not naming names, Cole) to the P!g pen can complain that I am just here to whine about the P!gs reliability.

Larry would be proud...

 

Was that one of the shocks for the hatch in the last of the pics?

 

you bet. a future DIY project for sure.

 

I think I can speak with certainty that Larry would not be proud .... now, if one of the pictures showed a stick of dynamite with a lit fuse....perhaps.