etrailer | How to Install Your Blue Ox Base Plate Kit - 2025 Lincoln Nautilus

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Hello neighbors, it's Brad here from etrailer. And today we are taking a look at installing the Blue Ox Base Plate on a 2025 Lincoln Nautilus. And this is gonna be the first step and really set the tone for the rest of your flat tow set up on your Nautilus because this base plate is not only gonna allow you to tow this down the road, but also give you mounting points for some of your other components. So let's take a closer look at it. When it comes to flat towing your Lincoln Nautilus down the road, there's gonna be five minimum main requirements that you need. And that's gonna include the base plate, which will be the structural mounting point for everything.

The tow bar will connect your base plate to the hitch on the RV. And just like towing a trailer, we're gonna have safety cables that will go from the hitch to our base plate. That way if anything was to disconnect, it's still gonna hold it all together. You're also gonna need lighting functions. So diode wiring, we'll see that we have our umbilical here will transfer that light signal from the seven-way to the taillights on the vehicle through the six-way.

You're also gonna have a braking system. So that's what our breakaway switch is here. The breakaway switch is the last line of defense. If everything was to fail, it'll pull this cable applying the brakes on the vehicle and that way it's not rolling down the road. Now here we have air brakes on ours, so that's why we have this extra cable.

But that's gonna be the basics. There are maybe a few things that you may want to add in. One of those would be a charge line. That's something that's super easy to add on that's gonna trickle charge your battery. But beyond that, those will at least get you started on getting this flat towing down the road.

And when you have your base plate installed, this is what the finished product is going to look like. And overall they did a really good job of keeping the base plate in this lower grill. So you will have to trim out to gain access to your plug to be able to feed through as well as your safety chain loops, as well as your arm attachments and your diode wiring. But overall finished product, I think it turned out really well. The arm attachments don't protrude out too far and neither do the safety chain. So overall, when you're not flat towing the vehicle, it still has a decent look to it. Now you'll see that there are caps included here that you can put in your receiver. That way if you're just driving down the road, we're not getting any road grime in there. And that's gonna keep it nice and clean for when we are ready to flat tow. These arms are removable and super easy to put in as well. You'll just push in, quarter turn, that'll snap it and it's ready to go. To remove it, it's equally the same. You just pull this pin, twist it, and it'll pop out. They do have a tab welded onto the base plate for your breakaway switch, which is a really nice addition. You don't have to fabricate anything up. And there's also a mounting point for our diode wiring. Now on this one, the brackets that go off of the base plate are relatively short. So it was pretty tight getting this on, but either way we still had a mounting point. So definitely takes a lot of the fabrication and guesswork on how to mount everything out properly. And overall, the installation wasn't terribly hard to do. This vehicle, it takes a little bit to get everything off. And I do recommend doing all of your flat tow components at the same time. And as far as trimming, I really tried to get this as clean as possible. I did notice after the fact that I had to trim out just a small section here that was pressed against the grill. But beyond that, it looks really good and it's really not that hard of an install. Now when you are ready to flat tow your vehicle, or even if you haven't hooked up to it yet, something that's gonna be important is making sure that your tow bar is as level as possible. So what does that mean Well, you're gonna want to take the measurement from the ground to our arm attachment. And this one, it comes in right at 16 inches. You're then gonna go to the hitch on your RV, measure from the ground to the center of the hitch pin hole. And between those measurements, if it's more than three inches of difference, you're gonna

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