First- Mounting system to the vehicle is iffy.  The Design Crew at "Swagman" state that the correct way to install hitch bar into our standard 2 inch receiver is to use the threaded hitch pin.  This means that there are only 2.5 inches of the hitch bar inside our factory mounted Pathfinder's standard hitch.  The threads make the bar tight in the left to right motion, but it remains very wobbly in the up and down motion. We do not trust the 2.5 inches to hold the rack loaded with our 5 bikes.