Looking for a base plate

It's not an item that they sell in huge quantities. When you're only making a few thousand of something the price goes up. You'll probably only find cheaper if you can luck out and find a used set out there someplace. I sold my 10 year old Dodge Dakota with the baseplates still attached. But the guy I sold them to just bought a TT so I know he isn't using them. So if you were looking for baseplates from a 2006 Dakota I could tell you where to find a pair. So unless you can find something like that, you're going to have to shell out the big bucks.

Blue Ox makes them too and Amazon carries their p/n BX2713 for $375 with free shipping. Like msmith1199 says, not a high volume item. If you are very lucky, you might run across one on Craigslist, eBay, or something local. Not an item to spend too much time searching for though because of the rarity.

There seems to be quite a selection on here.


Try this.

Jim@HiTek wrote:
Blue Ox makes them too and Amazon carries their p/n BX2713 for $375 with free shipping. Like msmith1199 says, not a high volume item. If you are very lucky, you might run across one on Craigslist, eBay, or something local. Not an item to spend too much time searching for though because of the rarity.

Blue Ox makes one for the Spectra 5 but not the Spectra. I had rather have a Blue Ox since that's what my tow bar is.

Did you contact Blue Ox and check with them already? To see if the Spectra 5 bar would also fit a Spectra?

I'd be surprised if they made a towbar that only fit 2 out of the 8 Spectra's in that model year.

'08 Kia Spectra types

Jim@HiTek wrote:
Did you contact Blue Ox and check with them already? To see if the Spectra 5 bar would also fit a Spectra?

I'd be surprised if they made a towbar that only fit 2 out of the 8 Spectra's in that model year.

'08 Kia Spectra types

Yes, I called them and they are different plates.

I just put a Roadaster baseplate om my Honda CRV but that $ 399 turns into more than $600 in Canada, thanks to our lousy dollar these days, and that does not include a $200 shipping fee just to cross the border.

You can get good deals through Amazon. I bought for my 2017 a Blue Ox, and I believe it was a little over three hundred dollars. Really like Blue Ox.

Try jet.com. I was able to get 20% off there a while back

I've already bought the Roadmaster from etrailer and I installed it today. Now I know why I love Blue Ox. The Roadmaster is heavy duty but what a pain to install it and a pain to get it ready to tow. That crossbar on the front of it makes it massive. Everything didn't fit the way it should and the instructions were unclear and sometimes totally wrong. It was nothing major that a shadetree mechanic couldn't figure out but still a PITA. Oh well, it's on, it's solid and I have confidence in it and that nothing will come loose.