[Upbeat music plays.]
[Title, “Toyota Genuine Accessories — Genuine Towing Hitch”]
[A Toyota vehicle, towing a trailer, drives on a road.]
Narrator: Your Toyota was built to take you places, and that often means bringing along more things than you can fit in your vehicle.
Whether you’re going to the cottage, or helping a friend move, your Toyota’s Genuine Towing Hitch system gives you worry free towing.
[Several Toyota Genuine Towing Hitches show differences in models.]
Not all towing hitches are created equally. Each Toyota Genuine Towing Hitch is specifically designed and engineered for the model on which it's intended to be installed.
This is a key requirement, because different vehicle models have different frame structures, engine sizes, and a range of other factors that can impact towing capacity.
[Under-the-hood components are highlighted.]
The Toyota Genuine Towing Hitch itself is one part of a complete towing system. Toyota ensures that, where required, components of a vehicle can manage your towing requirements -- from the engine and transmission, to the oil cooling and electrical systems.
The Toyota Genuine Towing Hitch has been designed to attach to the vehicle in a safe manner, and to appropriately distribute the load over the whole vehicle.
[An animation compares a Toyota Genuine Towing Hitch to an aftermarket hitch.]
[A caption reads: “RAV4- Toyota Genuine Towing Hitch”]
[A caption reads: ‘Sample Aftermarket Towing Hitch”]
To help enable you to tow safely, designing a hitch that can withstand towing a trailer is critical, as is consideration of the load placed on the vehicle's frame. No one knows your Toyota vehicle better than Toyota.
[A custom wiring harness is highlighted.]
The Toyota Genuine Towing System also comes with a custom wiring harness to help maintain the vehicle’s integrity. This is important for ensuring seamless taillight and turn signal operations.
The Toyota Genuine Wire Harness features high-quality plug-in connectors that are designed to fit each specific Toyota model and use their own independent circuit. This avoids damage to other vehicle components or voiding the warranty that can occur if wiring is spliced into the vehicle’s original equipment.
Each detail is carefully considered.
[An animation illustrates the departure angle.]
[A caption reads: “Departure angle”]
For example, establishing the departure angle of the hitch and ball mount is essential. The optimal placement of the departure angle for the Toyota Genuine Towing Hitch helps avoid scraping the ball mount on the ground when towing on an incline.
[An animation shows a series of design analysis and testing procedures.]
When you buy Toyota Genuine, you can also be assured the towing hitch and all its components have undergone extensive design analysis and testing.
Precise computer aided testing analyzes load points and forces on the vehicle's frame and helps optimize the efficiency of the design.
[A caption reads:
“Physical Durability Testing
Weld Quality – Cut and Etch Report
Salt Spray”]
Once the initial design is put through its paces, the hitch undergoes a series of lab testing, intended to simulate real world operating or performance conditions.
[An animated clock shows the passing of time against changing environmental conditions.]
In a matter of days or weeks, these tests can simulate, at an accelerated rate, the effect environmental conditions and ongoing usage may have on a hitch throughout its lifetime.
[A Toyota vehicle drives on a road.]
When these tests are completed, the towing hitch and its components go through a final stage of “on-vehicle” testing to ensure the integrity of the vehicle is maintained.
[In-plant coating equipment is shown.]
Toyota Genuine Towing Hitches are also manufactured to Toyota’s strict specifications and undergo a special painting and coating process to help protect and maintain the look of the towing hitch.
[A Toyota technician installs a Toyota Genuine Towing Hitch.]
Your Toyota dealer will help ensure you get the right Toyota Genuine Towing Hitch for your vehicle and the factory-trained technicians at the dealership can help to ensure it is installed correctly.
[A caption reads: “Warranty: 3 year / 60,000 km new vehicle limited warranty.”]
Toyota Genuine Hitches are backed by Toyota's three year/ 60,000 kilometer warranty when installed in your new vehicle at a Toyota dealership.
So whether you hit the road for a short trip or a long haul, your Toyota Genuine Hitch will give you peace of mind knowing you have the right equipment specifically built for your Toyota.
Visit accessories.toyota.ca for more information on Toyota Genuine Accessories.
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