Lots of nuts and bolts, lots of possibilities for misalignment. I assembled loose then tightened everything up after it looked good. Took about an hour on the living room floor (lol).This rack is smaller than my old rack, but it fits my Crosstrek nicely, which has a 1 1/4 reciever. The old rack was bought for a Tahoe and was a 2 inch reciever unit.I added a set of Curt 53201 lights which went together nicely.

Just what I needed for my JCW Cooper Countryman for a little extra load handling. Went together easy, design looks good, very rigid for a both-together.

This is a great sturdy rack. Fits easily into our car hitch and holds a lot of weight. BUT you must read the assembly instructions carefully as the main frame only goes together 1 way for all the pieces to fall into place. There is a weld lip on one side of the main frame and if you put it together with the lip facing up the othere pieces won't fit. Learned the hard way but once I figured it out it was breeze!

This is a handy cargo rack, it’s sturdy and well made. It was relatively easy to put together but make sure you have the right tools for it as it doesn’t come with any like more furniture you have to put together does, no big deal though!

We attached it to our Chevy Sonic, carries quite some weight (we had firewood and full coolers for camping on there) and is durable. We had ours for quite some time and see it lasting a long time

*Update to the below review --I called Curt, spoke with product specialist Mike --here's the deal --If you follow the provided assembly instructions you'll go awry.You have to build this thing from the bottom up.First you have to attach the 1 1/4" shank to the bottom two shelves.****Incredibly important, there's a near-indiscernable lip at the edge of one side of this bottom-most piece.That lip has to face DOWNWARD, or else it will throw everything else off by a fraction of an inch.This small discrepancy will be just enough to misalign all the holes, which is why ~10% of customersare reporting misaligned holes.Make sure the top of the bottom shelf is completely flush with the top of the 1 1/4" shank.Loosely insert the 4 largest bolt/washer/nut combos to attach shank to bottom shelf.Next attach the two T-shaped brackets that go on either end (front/back), making sure the shankis turned with two holes to the side that would face the trailer hitch (look at pic on box to get idea of this)and also that two holes are on the SIDE of the shank and (not the top).Once you correctly attach the bottom shelf to the shank, the two T-shaped pieces on either end,then you need to loosely attach the 6 V-shaped brackets to the bottom shelf. Once this is done ...Just 'sit' one of the two top rail bars on top of the v-pieces, sliding it into the female opening on the T-shapedpiece. Making sure all holes align, attach this top rail bar to both the T-shaped pice and the bottom shelf.Do the same for the other side.Next you can attach these two top rail bars to the V-shaped brackets (again loosely) using the smallest set of bolt/washer/nuts.From here the thing is fully (loosely) assembled and you just go around the entire carrier making sure to fully tighten all the nuts and bolts.Mike at Kurt needs to be the guy to RE-write these instructions. The instructions advise assembling in the WRONG ORDER and do not give the crucial starting advice to make sure the bottom shelf has the tiny lip DOWN and not up.Follow the above order and details and your assembly will work.Cheers & Best -PS: Curt, have Mike re-write your instructions for god's sakes!!Dear potential Curt Customer, let me save you from a nightmare experience here --First, take a moment to read through the litany of 1 and 2 star reviews stating this product is defective, warped steel, with misaligned holes.Second, notice that this complaint has been consistently voiced by frustrated customers since 2018 (I'm writing this review in June of 2021).Curt Company is simply not bothering to take the time to fix this problem at the plea of injured customers who have spent 3+ hours working to assemble an unassemblable product (fyi, while you may be able to muscle some of the smaller parts into place, it's the FINAL piece, a large-diameter steel shank, which absolutely WILL NOT FIT) --I say "injured" here, because when you're trying to align misaligned holes on heavy gauge, warped steel (per the horribly written, inadequate, innaccurate, instructions) you run a serious risk of bodily injury -- as I was trying to align the holes on the final piece, the steel shank recoiled and hit my shin bone and now I have a huge, blue pump-knot on my shin bone.To add insult to literal injury, like so many others crying out berfore me, I have thrown away 3 hours of my life dealing with this nightmare.Trying to assemble a puzzle that "almost" fits is positively maddening. Don't believe me? Buy this product and then we'll talk. I'm pretty sure the sadistic villain from those "Saw" movies is behind this evil charade.If you're reading this review, please don't make the same mistake I did and discount all those screaming NIGHTMARE in light of the large percentage of positive reviews.Instead, just go find a product that doesn't boast customers screaming NOOOOOO, and isn't going to wreck a half day of your life leaving you having to disassemble, package, return ship, and seek medical attention.Okay, you've been warned. Happy carrier rack shopping.

Excelente articulo para viajes, ya que te ayuda en la distribucion de lo que lleves en la cajuela del auto o van. A muy buen precio y con la facilidad de que es adaptable a los recividores tradicionales de 2" o pero tambien a los 1 1/4".

Excelente producto. Muy buena ingeniería de diseño. Muy macizo!!

First cargo basket that I've ordered arrived missing item #9 in the assembly list, that actually rendered whole assembly useless. First customer service associate was a total j e r k, plainly refusing to send me a replacement part and any further help. Second agent went above and beyond her duties, even called Curt manufacturer to inquire about missing parts. In the end, I got my basket and assembled it today.Assembly:was like a charm. Instruction diagram does not clearly depicts whether bolts go from the bottom of the plate or the top and whether washers go under the bolt head or a nut. Well, I looked at the picture on the box and assembled the rest of the cargo basket accordingly. According to it, all washers are placed under bolt heads. Nuts are by themselves.Overall, I am very happy and satisfied with the product. I am not subtracting any stars for the bad experience with the first customer service agent, because the second agent came thru. I have not had a chance of testing it installed on a car, but I will keep you posted....

I've been very happy with this cargo carrier. It's Stout and assembly was easy.I DO RECOMMEND this Curt Cargo Carrier.I roadtrip all over the country, to Mountain Bike and Camp, that's my hobby. I wanted something to haul extra cargo and even a generator when I'm really going deep. This works great and when not in use, you can, if need be disassembled it and store in the vehicle. I've driven about 2000, mostly highway miles loaded with a Honda 3500 Generator and a Chainsaw, and it performed flawlessly. I bottomed it out, driving slowly, several times in the woods and expected it to be damaged, but it wasn't. Initial assembly was pretty easy, even with the so-so instructions. There are 2 types of bolts and each bolt type only fits the hole it's meant for. The center shank, which if the main support for the whole carrier does go a certain way, just look it over and you'll see. I didn't know this and so I didn't check, which meant about 2/3 of the way through, I found out and had to pull if apart and start over, which took all of 10 minutes. I used an electric impact driver, but a regular drill or even hand tools would have worked fine. Don't cinch any bolt down until it's all together, that way you have some play to get every thing in place. Once it all loosely assembled you can go around and tighten it up. I hope this review helps.

RECIBI EL PEDIDO EN EL TIEMPO ESTIPULADO, AUN NO LO HE ARMADO. EL DÍA DE HOY LO HARÉ Y ESPERO SEA DE LA CALIDAD QUE ESPERABA