etrailer | 2016 Mini Countryman Roadmaster Direct-Connect Base Plate Kit: Complete Installation

Click for more info and reviews of this Roadmaster Tow Bar Base Plate: https://www.etrailer.com/Tow-Bar-Base... Check out some similar Tow Bar Base Plate options: https://www.etrailer.com/base-plates.htm Search for other popular Mini Countryman parts and accessories: https://www.etrailer.com/vehicle/2016... https://www.etrailer.com Don’t forget to subscribe!    / etrailertv   Full transcript: https://www.etrailer.com/tv-install-r... Speaker 1: Today on our 2016 Mini Countrymen, you're going to take a look at and I'm going to show you how to install the Roadmaster EZ5 base plate kit with removable arms, part number RM-521883-5.This is what our EZ5 base plate looks like when it's installed. As you can see, it fits nice and flush with the fascia. It's not going to stick out, protrude. It's not an eyesore. It looks really nice on there. It's going to have a nice black powder coat finish, so it's going to resist and rust or corrosion. You're going to have removable arms. Simply slide them in, twist, and they lock into place. You'll have one of these for both sides. To remove it, simply pull the ring, twist, and it slides out.It's going to be one of five main components in a flat tow set up. The other four are going to be your braking system, your lighting, your safety cables, and your tow bar.Now what this base plates going to do for you, it's going to allow you to safely flat tow your vehicle behind your RV when you're traveling. As far as the installation goes, it is a pretty straightforward installation, you're not going to have to do any welding. You will have to remove your fascia. Again you'll have to do a little bit of trimming here. Other than that, it's pretty straightforward. It's going to come with all the necessary hardware. Now that we've gone over some of the features, let me show you how easy it is to get installed.To begin our install, we're going to have to take off our grill. To do that, we're going to have four bolts that run across the top here. Now our instructions say they're supposed to be 10 millimeter head bolts. In our case, they are going to be T25 Torx head bolts.Next we're going to pull our grill off. You just want to grab like right around this corner, just kind of wiggle it out should just pop right out of there, just like that. We're going to have four fasteners right here inside of our fender well that we need to take out. One's going to be a push pin fastener down here. You're going to have eight millimeter head bolt right here. You're going to have two fasteners right here that we're going to have to remove.We'll start with the eight millimeter bolt. There's not really a particular order that these need to come out, flathead screwdriver, like that. Make sure you pull the base out with it. Then for our top two, top two are going to be a little bit different. There's like a little bitty pin right in the center. But if you pry out just enough, like that, you can actually grab it and pull it out. And we're going to repeat that same thing on the other side.This trim piece right here. We need to pull this off our front fascia. So what you're going to do is you're going to take your liner, you're going to pull it back. And you're going to have three little plastic clips right in here. If you reach up and then pull down on them, you'll be able to pull them out it. I'll show you what it looks like here.So this is going to be your clip. What you want to do is reach up there and just pull down on it, just like that. So what I like to do, since we're going to be moving the fascia around to get it off, I'm going to take some tape and I'm going to cover this edge right here, so it doesn't scratch it. You can use electrical tape, black tape, whatever you have. It doesn't have to be a masterpiece, you just want to protect the paint job on the car. Just something like that. I'd say go ahead and do that on the other side also. We're going to have a couple of lights right here on the sides. We need to unplug those. We're just going to push in and pull out. You're going to have one of those on both sides of the vehicle.Now we need to come underneath our vehicle. Now our instructions tell us we're going to have two push pin fasteners and a T25 Torx bit. We don't have T25 Torx bit down here. It's going to be a 10 millimeter head bolt. Now our instructions tell us we need to take out the two push pin fasteners. You can see here we have four that are attaching this to our fascia. However, if we just remove this 10 millimeter bolt, we don't need to take this off. You can see it's loose.Next, once you have that removed on both side of the vehicle, you're going to have three push pin fasteners right across the center. So flathead screwdriver and right in the center, trim panel tool. You want to make sure the base comes out with it. If it doesn'