Curt Manufacturing 18110 Cargo Carrier with 1-1/4" Fixed Shank

I have a 1.25 inch receiver on my Nissan LEAF, so options were somewhat limited. This was a good choice. Easy to assemble, reasonably solid, and easy to attach/detach. Used it on a 90 minute drive out and then back, with a fairly heavy cooler and two hard side suitcases attached. Worked exactly as expected, and we were able to get four adults and all their stuff for a 3 night houseboat trip loaded into a LEAF. That's saying something. You will want to be sure to keep the load even side to side. When I started reloading for our trip home, I put the cooler on first at an extreme end, and it listed a few inches to starboard. Re-centering the load solved the issue. I think we had around 100 lbs on the rack, and it performed just fine. Would definitely buy again.

Very sturdy not cheaply made very easy to install. A bit heavy but easily attached to the vehicle

This cargo carrier is a great buy. I bought it to carry a gas can, cooler, and miscellaneous tools or other luggage in a Rubbermaid tote on roadtrips. It has held on great so far, but it does have a few cons I'll cover soon. The rack did, as for many people, arrive slightly damaged. The Curt box it arrived in had a hole in the back about 2" in diameter. The metal mesh on one half of the rack, packaged on the bottom, was bent a bit. It is completely usable, but a disappointment. The rack was fairly straight forward to assemble. It did take a bit of flipping back and forth and holding parts carefully to get all the bolts started, but it is completely do-able for anyone with a 17mm wrench. It does require a 19mm for the odd, yet simply workable hitch pin. Once the basket was together, following advice from other Amazon reviews with all bolts turned with the shaft out and some added reflective stickers for extra visibility, I put it on my car (2015 Honda Fit EX) and it went on easily. The hitch pin, a long bolt you have to tighten to 'wedge' it so it can't rattle, works fine and gives no side to side flop or shake. I also grabbed a $10 hitch tightener to help strengthen things a bit, but I'm not sure it was necessary. It also uses 19mm hardware so I just keep it and use it since I have it. The cargo carrier basket is pretty sturdy and definitely stout enough for what I carry. My hitch is only rated for 200 lbs. tongue weight, which I've not come close to, but I'm not sure I'd go much further than that even if it could. I don't think the carrier could hold the 300 lbs. that it claims, but it definitely holds up as well as I hoped a sub-$100 1-3/4" cargo carrier could. The angled 'shank' does help my height challenged car clear the driveway, and does angle the basket slightly towards the car, but only a couple of degrees at most. If I could offer one suggestion to Curt, it'd be to add some reflective sticker and maybe to package it with some thick cardboard to help protect the mesh floor of the basket. Otherwise, all seems great, and I definitely have no qualms recommending anyone who needs to buy this. Update: It's been a week, it's been about 1,500 miles, and it's been A-OK! Still holding up well, no rattling or annoying flopping. I've only hauled about 50lbs total, if that, at a time on it for those miles, but the rack is still sturdy, and continues to be a good buy.

Excellent little rack was just what we needed. Drove about 700 miles with 2 fully loaded coolers - about 75 to 100 lbs total. Absolutely no issues. Rack extends far enough out that it was easy to access the back of the vehicle for loading/unloading. But it does not extend out too far - so parking in parking lots was not an issue either. It was solid and stable. Not many racks exist for 1.25" trailer hitches. Glad we purchased this one. There are comments from other reviewers that this was difficult to put together and/or that the instructions needed to be modified. I followed the instructions "as is" and it went together just fine, and it didn't take long.

Perfect size and fit on my 2016 Corolla. Way more space than I would've thought, and nearly zero drag as it's tucked away. Turned my little car into a pool cleaning machine. Love that it included a spacer as well for the 2" hitch. Little to no wiggle, and I have about 200 pounds on the rack at all times. Assembly was a breeze, one man job in 20 minutes or less.

I purchased this cargo carrier for my 2006 Honda CR-V. I'm glad I did. The carrier cleared both the mounted spare tire and the exhaust flow. I think a carrier without the rise from the hitch receptacle would have hot exhaust blowing on the cargo. On my way east (empty) from California, I stopped at multiple rock collecting sites. Several were rough enough to actually drag the carrier. Yes, I need to do a little sanding and repainting. But the terrain did not cause any structural damage, as I would have experienced by a carrier positioned a few inches lower. Interestingly, in Colorado I accidentally left a small stone unsecured in the carrier. I found it when I reached my destination in Michigan. That tells me it's a smooth ride back there. I loaded the carrier with multiple plastic bins of various sizes, secured with straps. The return trip included midwestern storms, snow closure of I-80 in Wyoming and choking smoke in California's central valley. Everything arrived in the same condition it was packed. Importantly, I noticed no difference in handling or fuel consumption. That's the reason I chose a hitch mounted carrier over one attached to my roof rack. Oh, it probably took me an hour to assemble. I'm sure I could have done it faster if I had done it on a work bench in my shop, instead of working at foot level on my deck. It was pretty easy and straight forward. Reflective tape on the corners is a good suggestion. Update: While considering this purchase, the geometry of the shank was of interest to me. I read what I could, rolled the dice, and got the results I needed. Please check my newly added photos. You'll see the tray sits 11.5 inches back from the center of the hitch pin hole. The rise of the shank is 2 inches. Hope this helps you.

I used this carrier all the way from Fairbanks to Buffalo NY. I went 5000 miles with a big tote strapped to it plus a smaller one 5000 miles because I went down the coast to Vancouver and Portland, OR. I went through mountains, hills and curves through the Yukon, British Columbia and all of the great Plains states like, Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota. etc. All the while, I drive 80-90 mph. (except in the Yukon and British Columbia, it's way too curvy for that fast driving). They just finished paving the road in British Columbia so it was smooth, but you can really only drive 50-55 mph cuz it is so very curvy with lots of up and down, seriously like a rollercoaster. Actually, this is still on the back of my car cuz I'm too lazy to take it off. It has been on the car for over a month. The Drive was for 2 weeks in duration. My car is a Buick Encore GX, so I used the 1 and 1/4 hitch size not the 2 in adaptor that came with it. Just try to balance it out. I got worried, because I didn't do that and it was very heavily packed. PLus I had one of those Giant Suitcases on it The biggest ones they sell. I think I had at least 100-150lbs. but I don't know for sure.

It arrived super, super early. Was quick to assemble from three big pcs and five little pcs into a rack. The problems are with the shank size. The 1.25" square tube of the main rail is too narrow to provide torsion stiffness, so this thing rolls (twists) very easily. An uneven load will tilt badly. And even worse for those not mechanically inclined, perhaps mine was a fluke, but my adapter piece was not finished. To make it fit required hack sawing a nub from inside the nylon adapter. The instructions showed were absurd, a four inch bolt don't fit sideways through a two inch opening, and a cotter pin can't be put on if there is no hole for bolt to pass through nylon! They may have given me an early revision of the adapter, from a version with no bolt, and no threads on rail. Once made rational by removing nub, it fit snug and smooth into my hitch. Holes in rail were too small for my hitch pin, too hot and late to mess with, I found a good big bolt and bolted it in. It's stiff up and down, the fit is full solid.

Excelente , mucho más espacio disponible en el interior del vehículo

Todo excelente la esperaba en 10 días y llegó en 3, el mterial de este producto es muy bueno tal y como lo describen, estoy muy satisfecho con la compra

Se pandea un poco con mucho peso