Originally Posted by Riggodeaux

swissfrank, if you haven't yet, check out the long, long thread on DIY hitch install. Way back in December 2013, we identified [and soon exhausted] the supply of OEM hitches at north american dealerships. I posted the list provided by a kindly NJ dealer's parts guy of all of them, and bought one of two sitting at the Athens, GA BMW dealership. As I recall, it had a 2007? date on the shipping box ..... So, the only source today are wrecks in junkyards .....