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(More customer reviews)This product is a perfect fit for the '02 Jeep Liberty and was very easy to mount using the six, factory mounting points on the Jeep. For the money, you cannot go wrong. I will say that packaging for this product is very poor as the tow hitch is heavy and cumbersome. When it arrived, it had broken through the box in a number of places. In addition, the plastic socket cap that has the Reese logo on it was completely shattered. This item itself was poorly made and would not have lasted long any way but regardless, when you buy something new, you do not want anything broken. I went to Amazon.com and they sent me "contact supplier". I could not find contact info on Amazon so went to google and contacted Reese directly. Reese was very helpful and sent a new and better replacement overnight.
As an added note and this is not an issue with this item but go ahead and plan on getting a 12MMX1.75 thread tap to clean out the threads. This is an issue with Jeep in that they should have plugged the holes at the factory so they would not corrode and crud up. I simply sprayed each mounting hole with a lot of WD40 and then threaded the tap in. This took a little effort (and frustration) but once started was pretty easy.
One other review for this procduct said it took them 20 minutes on install. I will say that after cleaning out the threads, loosening the exhaust tail pipe and pulling it slightly out of the way (it is directly beneath one bolt hole on the right hand side), I had this thing mounted in about 10 minutes (how long does it take to thread and tighten 6 bolts?).
I did add a 12MM hardened lock washer in addition to the flat washer provided with the hitch.
Good luck with your install!
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